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Karpathy: Just 'Rip Out' What You Need — DeepWiki + Bacterial Code and the Software Malleability Revolution
Andrej Karpathy shares how he used DeepWiki MCP + GitHub CLI to have Claude 'rip out' fp8 training functionality from torchao's codebase — producing 150 lines of self-contained code in 5 minutes that actually ran 3% faster. He introduces the 'bacterial code' concept: low-coupling, self-contained, dependency-free code that agents can easily extract and transplant. His punchline: 'Libraries are over, LLMs are the new compiler.'