What Andrej Karpathy thinks about open source

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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 readingOpen models trailing the frontier by a few months is a good arrangement, because the industry needs a common working space it all has access to.

   Their wordsBut I want there to be a thing that's behind and that uh is kind of like a common working space for intelligences that the entire industry has access to.

   ↗Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AIyoutube.com 17th of 20 in this recording