What Andrej Karpathy thinks about AI and science

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

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1. 20 Mar 2026

   Our readingAI researchers should contribute ideas but stop enacting them: a single queue of ideas and automated workers should run the experiments.

   Their wordsBut okay, they shouldn't actually be enacting these ideas. There is a queue of ideas and there's maybe an automated scientist that comes up with ideas based on all the archive papers and GitHub repos and it funnels ideas in or researchers can contribute ideas, but it's a single queue and there is workers that pull items and they try them out.

   ↗Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AIyoutube.com 8th of 20 in this recording

3. 20 Mar 2026

   Our readingPurely digital progress runs out: to keep learning, the machines will have to run experiments and ask the universe questions.

   Their wordsyou're going to run out of things that you're going to do purely in the digital space. At some point you have to go to the universe and you have to ask it questions. Um you have to run an experiment and see what the universe tells you to get back to learn something.

   ↗Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AIyoutube.com 18th of 20 in this recording