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Andrej Karpathy says AI-written code can be 'bloaty' and 'brittle,' needing human supervision.
Karpathy introduced 'vibe coding' as AI-assisted development where builders touch code minimally.
Security concerns have risen as AI-generated code can risk exposing data, with Lovable reporting issues.
Vibe coding disrupted hiring and boosted the value of tools for developers, influencing startup valuations.
Despite popularity, developers caution against overreliance on AI due to untested code risks.
Karpathy says humans will still guide high-level development decisions while AI handles the 'under the hood' work.
Karpathy noted no fundamental barrier to clean AI code; training focus has been scarce.
The Sequoia talk highlighted the broader tech response to vibe coding and its impact on startups.
Vibe coding has been named the 2025 word of the year by Collins Dictionary, signaling its cultural reach.
The article emphasizes ongoing debates about AI's role in software development and the need for guardrails.

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Standard Intelligence pursues general computer agents through raw video pre-training on computer use.
The team built an 11-million-hour computer action dataset, the largest in the industry.
A video encoder is about 50 times more token-efficient, enabling two hours of 30 FPS video in a 1-million-token window.
The team operates a 30-petabyte storage cluster in San Francisco costing under $500K.
FDM-1 is the first foundation model trained on computer-use video at scale.
Founders Galen Mead and Devansh Pandey started out as teenagers and left college to pursue AI safety with urgency.
The company positions itself as an unconventional approach in the AGI race, focusing on video rather than text.
Series A funding for Standard Intelligence is led by investors including Spark Capital's Miko and Yasmin.
The team envisions general models capable of editing tools and software states after brief fine-tuning.

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