SMRTR ProgrammingFeb 24, 2026Hacker News

Software 3.1? – AI Functions

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Andrej Karpathy's Software 3.0 concept involves prompting LLMs for code generation, but AI Functions from Strands Labs proposes Software 3.1 – a runtime approach where LLMs generate and execute code during function calls, returning native Python objects instead of text. The system uses post-conditions for automated verification on every execution, creating self-correcting loops that shift development focus from perfect prompting to writing good validation criteria.

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