What Andrej Karpathy thinks about documentation

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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 readingStop writing documentation for people: a library should ship markdown for agents, which then explain it to whoever asks.

   Their wordsIt used to be that you have documentation for other people who are going to use your library, but like you shouldn't do that anymore. Like you should have instead of HTML documents for humans, you have markdown documents for agents.

   ↗Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AIyoutube.com 19th of 20 in this recording