Ex-Tesla AI head has seen a 'phase shift in software engineering' using Claude Code — and his manual skills slowly 'atrophy'

Ex-Tesla AI head has seen a 'phase shift in software engineering' using Claude Code — and his manual skills slowly 'atrophy'

Andrej Karpathy, a Tesla and OpenAI alum, wrote that he is "sheepishly" telling a coding agent what to write.Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty ImagesAndrej Karpathy posted his "notes from Claude Coding," describing a recent "phase shift" in software engineering."I really am mostly programming in English now," Karpathy wrote, describing the slow "atrophy" of his manual coding skills.Engineers from xAI and Anthropic chimed in wit…