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From Andrej Karpathy on Vibe Coding & Agentic Engineering (AI Ascent 2026) · ≈3:42
“And the reason this is a lot more powerful is you're working now in the software 3.0 paradigm where you don't have to precisely uh spell out, you know, all the individual details of that setup.”
“It's just like, what is the piece of text to copy-paste to your agent? That's the programming paradigm now.”
What’s in it
- Why install scripts should become copy-paste prompts for your agent
- Software 3.0: describe intent, let the agent debug the environment
- OpenClaw example showing agent-driven setup over brittle shell scripts
Clip transcript
I think there's a few examples of that really drove it home for me and maybe that might be instructive. Uh so for example, when you when Open Claw came out when you want to install Open Claw, you would expect that normally this is a bash bash script like a shell script. So, run the shell script to run uh to install OpenClaw. Um but the thing is that in order to target lots of different platforms and lots of different types of computers you might run an OpenClaw, uh this these shell scripts usually ballooned up and become extremely complex. But the thing is you're still stuck in a software 1.0 universe of wanting to write the code. And actually the OpenClaw installation is a is a copy-paste of a bunch of text that you're supposed to give to your agent. Uh so, basically it's it's a little skill of uh you know, copy-paste this and give it to your agent and it will install OpenClaw. And the reason this is a lot more powerful is you're working now in the software 3.0 paradigm where you don't have to precisely uh spell out, you know, all the individual details of that setup. The agent has its own intelligence that it packages up and then it kind of like follows the instructions and it looks at your environment, your computer, and it kind of like performs intelligent actions to make things work and debugs things in the loop. And it's just like so much more powerful, right? So, I think that's a very different kind of like way of thinking about it. It's just like, what is the piece of text to copy-paste to your agent? That's the programming paradigm now. I think one more maybe uh
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