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Andrej Karpathy

What Andrej Karpathy thinks about coding agents

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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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6 dated positions, 2025 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Andrej Karpathy has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingThe way software gets built flipped in December: writing code yourself is now the exception, not the default.

    Their wordsI kind of went from 80/20 of like, you know, uh to like 20/80 of writing code by myself versus just delegating to agents. And I don't even think it's 20/80 by now. I think it's a lot more than that. I don't think I've typed like a line of code probably since December basically.

    ↗Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AIyoutube.com 1st of 20 in this recording

  3. Our readingWhat limits you with coding agents is your own skill at stringing them together, not the capability of the models.

    Their wordsI think to a large extent you feel like it's a skill issue. It's not that the capability is not there. It's that you just haven't found a way to string it together of what's available.

    ↗Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AIyoutube.com 2nd of 20 in this recording

  5. Our readingAn overnight automated search found tunings that two decades of hand-tuning experience had missed on an already well-tuned repository.

    Their wordsAnd I've gotten to a certain point and I thought it was like fairly well tuned and then I let auto research go for like overnight and it came back with like tunings that I didn't see.

    ↗Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AIyoutube.com 7th of 20 in this recording

  7. Our readingToday's agents are a brilliant systems programmer and a ten-year-old at the same time, a combination you would never meet in a person.

    Their wordsI simultaneously feel like I'm talking to an extremely brilliant PhD student who's been like a systems programmer for their entire life and a 10-year-old.

    ↗Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AIyoutube.com 9th of 20 in this recording

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  9. Our readingThe industry is pretending today's coding agents are amazing when what they produce is slop, and some of that pretending is fundraising.

    Their wordsAnd I kind of feel like the industry it's it's um it's over it's it's making too big of a jump and it's trying to pretend like this is amazing and it's not. It's slop and I think they're not coming to terms with it and maybe they're trying to fund raise or something like that.

    ↗Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”youtube.com 11th of 30 in this recording

  11. Our readingCoding is the first job AI took because coding has always been text, which is the one thing these models are built to process.

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    Their wordsso I think there's there's an interesting point here because I do believe coding is like the perfect first thing for uh for a for uh these LLMs and uh agents and that's because coding has always fundamentally uh worked around text.

    ↗Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”youtube.com 21st of 30 in this recording