Andrej Karpathy
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
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9 Apr 2026
Our reading
Their wordsTLDR the people in these two groups are speaking past each other.
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4 Apr 2026
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Their wordsSomething I've been thinking about - I am bullish on people (empowered by AI) increasing the visibility, legibility and accountability of their governments.
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28 Mar 2026
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Their wordsThe LLMs may elicit an opinion when asked but are extremely competent in arguing almost any direction. This is actually super useful as a tool for forming your own opinions, just make sure to ask different directions and be careful with the sycophancy.
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25 Mar 2026
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Their wordsOne common issue with personalization in all LLMs is how distracting memory seems to be for the models. A single question from 2 months ago about some topic can keep coming up as some kind of a deep interest of mine with undue mentions in perpetuity.
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11 Mar 2026
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Their wordsExpectation: the age of the IDE is over Reality: we’re going to need a bigger IDE (imo). It just looks very different because humans now move upwards and program at a higher level - the basic unit of interest is not one file but one agent. It’s still programming.
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11 Mar 2026
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Agentic organisations will be forkable in a way that classical companies never were.
Their wordsYou can’t fork classical orgs (eg Microsoft) but you’ll be able to fork agentic orgs.
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11 Mar 2026
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Their wordsIntelligence brownouts will be interesting - the planet losing IQ points when frontier AI stutters.
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12 Feb 2026
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Their wordsmicrogpt “hallucinating” a name like “karia” is the same phenomenon as ChatGPT confidently stating a false fact.
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17 Nov 2025
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Their wordsThe more a task/job is verifiable, the more amenable it is to automation in the new programming paradigm.
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17 Nov 2025
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Their wordsIf a task/job is verifiable, then it is optimizable directly or via reinforcement learning, and a neural net can be trained to work extremely well.
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16 Nov 2025
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Their wordsAI has been compared to various historical precedents: electricity, industrial revolution, etc., I think the strongest analogy is that of AI as a new computing paradigm (Software 2.0) because both are fundamentally about the automation of digital information processing.
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25 Sept 2025
Our reading
Predictions that AI would eliminate radiology jobs were wrong; radiology is growing.
Their wordsExpectation: rapid progress in image recognition AI will delete radiology jobs (e.g. as famously predicted by Geoff Hinton now almost a decade ago). Reality: radiology is doing great and is growing.
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25 Sept 2025
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Most current predictions about AI's imminent impact on the job market are naive.
Their wordsThere are a lot of imo naive predictions out there on the imminent impact of AI on the job market.
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7 Apr 2025
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Their wordsSo it strikes me as quite unique and remarkable that LLMs display a dramatic reversal of this pattern - they generate disproportionate benefit for regular people, while their impact is a lot more muted and lagging in corporations and governments.
↗Power to the people: How LLMs flip the script on technology diffusionkarpathy.bearblog.dev
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7 Apr 2025
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Their wordsIn contrast, an individual will usually only be an expert in at most one thing, so the broad quasi-expertise offered by the LLM fundamentally allows them to do things they couldn't do before.
↗Power to the people: How LLMs flip the script on technology diffusionkarpathy.bearblog.dev