Code itself is worthless in a world of AI

The man who coined vibe coding, just stopped coding. Andrea Caparte, the co-founder of OpenAI, just said he's spending less time using AI to write code and more time using it to build a second brain. Here's what he means. He drops anything he's reading from research papers to articles to notes into a folder. Then he points to NLM at it to build an entire Wiki from scratch. The AI reads every source, cross-links related concepts and flags contradictions. And it does all this automatically with Carpathi barely touching it. His Wiki on a single research topic has grown to over 100 articles and 400,000 words. And he didn't write a single line of it. As he says, "Obsidian is the IDE. The LLM is the codewriter, and the Wiki is the codebase." But here's why this matters beyond one person's note-taking system. He released what's called an idea file, a document you copy and paste interior agent and it builds the entire thing for you. And it has 5,000 stars on GitHub with nearly 4,000 forks. Carpathi's argument is that in the age of AI you don't need to share software anymore. You share the idea and the other person's AI builds it. He went from building AI to coding with AI to replacing code with ideas. The guy who created OpenAI is now saying the most valuable thing he can publish isn't code anymore. It's a description of what the code should be so the AI can handle the rest. If you want to stay up to date on AI news, join the newsletter link in bio.