Andrej Karpathy on Software 'Coming Out of a Tap': Jevons Paradox Will Explode Demand for Bespoke, Single-Use Apps

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In a take surfaced by Simon Willison on June 9, Karpathy argues that as working software increasingly 'comes out of a tap,' cheap generation won't shrink the market — by Jevons paradox it expands it, unleashing demand for explainers, visualizers, dashboards, and disposable single-use apps. For builders, the implication is that distribution and taste, not lines of code, become the binding constraint. It is a notably optimistic counter to fears that abundant AI-generated software collapses developer value.