Software 3.0
topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
My First Million 
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Karpathy says Software 3.0 eliminates apps via direct neural generation
“The software three-point paradigm is a lot more kind of raw. It just, neural network is doing more and more of the work, and your prompt or context is just the image, and the output is an image, and there's no need to have any of the app in between.”
LLMs establish Software 3.0 where natural language prompts are programs
“And I think what's changed, and I think is a quite fundamental change, is that neural networks became programmable. With large language models. And so I see this as quite new, unique. It's a new kind of a computer. And so in my mind, it's worth giving it a new…”
Guo: Software 3.0 focuses on manipulating foundation models, not training them
“Software three dot O is the idea that the next generation of software, a lot of it is about manipulating foundation models and they're called foundation models because they have a lot of capability out of the box. You don't need to train them from scratch. You…”