Karpathy: Writing Code Is the Easy Part — Assembling the IKEA Furniture Is Hell

Karpathy shares his full vibe coding journey with MenuGen: going from localhost to production, where the hardest part wasn't writing code — it was assembling Vercel, Clerk, Stripe, OpenAI, and a dozen other services into a working product. His takeaway: the entire DevOps lifecycle needs to become code before AI agents can truly ship for us.