{
  "id": 15056367,
  "title": "Quote of the day by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy: \"The hottest new programming language is English\"",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/quote-of-the-day-by-openai-co-founder-andrej-karpathy-the-hottest-new",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-16T22:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "TechRadar",
    "slug": "techradar",
    "url": "https://www.techradar.com/pro/quote-of-the-day-by-openai-co-founder-andrej-karpathy-the-hottest-new-programming-language-is-english-signalling-the-shift-to-natural-language-dominance-in-the-ai-era"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In a recent social media post on X, Andrej Karpathy, one of the co-founders of OpenAI, shared his thoughts on the future of programming. The post quickly gained traction, sparking discussions among industry professionals. Karpathy, who co-founded Eureka Labs, an AI education platform, declared that English has emerged as the most popular programming language. This assertion was backed by evidence from scientific literature, which demonstrated that natural language could effectively guide AI in complex programming tasks. The rise of vibe coding, as Karpathy termed it, has led to a transformation in the role of software developers. Rather than writing code from scratch, many now focus on reviewing and validating existing code, ultimately reducing the need for junior developers in the field. This shift in the software development landscape could result in significant changes to the traditional career pipeline within the industry.",
  "summary": "With large language models becoming increasingly prevalent over the last few years, more and more people have the means to code",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}