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Andrej Karpathy

What Andrej Karpathy thinks about AI agents

@andrej-karpathy · 66 positions · 0 changes of mind

Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  1. Our readingThe age of the IDE is not over; agents make it bigger, because humans now program at a higher level where the unit of interest is an agent rather than a file.

    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.

    ↗@karpathy on Xx.com

    Interesting

  3. Our readingAgentic 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.

    ↗@karpathy on Xx.com

    Microsoft

    Interesting