AI researcher Andrej Karpathy argues that programming has fundamentally changed over the last two months, particularly since December when coding agents started actually working. Developers are shifting from writing code to directing and managing AI agents in parallel.
A Reddit post in r/singularity links METR’s new productivity update, revisiting the widely cited 2025 result that AI slowed experienced open-source developers. The new signal points toward possible speedup, but METR stresses major selection-bias limitations.
AI researcher Andrej Karpathy argues that LLMs fundamentally change software constraints, excelling at code translation. He predicts large fractions of all software ever written will be rewritten many times over as AI reshapes the programming landscape.
OpenAI announced GPT-5.3 Codex Spark on February 12, 2026, positioning it as a coding-focused model optimized for practical throughput and cost efficiency. The company reports lower latency and token cost versus GPT-5.2 while maintaining strong benchmark results.