Andrej Karpathy posts "The hottest new programming language is English" on X
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Posted "The hottest new programming language is English" on X
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A one-liner that defined natural-language prompting as programming. It later became the slogan of prompt engineering discourse. The original X post was not checked directly; this relies on Quote Investigator's documentation
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