Andrej Karpathy
14 statements across 3 episodes · 12 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 5, 2024 by Andrej Karpathy · said 6 times in 5 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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Sep 5, 2024 bullish
Karpathy: Tesla is fundamentally a robotics-at-scale company, not a carmaker
“Basically everything transfers and I don't think people appreciate it. Cars are robots and Tesla, I don't think is a car company. I think this is misleading. This is a robotics company, robotics at scale company, because I would say at scale is also like a who…”
Sep 5, 2024 bullish
Sep 5, 2024 bullish
Oct 24, 2024 positive
Waymo's autonomous driving technology is fundamentally centered on AI, not hardware
“It's all about AI. Full stop. Like we talked about, you know, a few big breakthroughs that allowed us to get to where we are today. You know, content, transformers, big Ness now, you know, most recently kind of combining the Waymo AI with the congenital knowle…”
Mar 20, 2026 bullish
Mar 20, 2026 positive
Mar 20, 2026 bullish
Karpathy: AutoResearch discovered hyperparameter tunings he missed after manual optimization
“And then I let our research go for like overnight
and it came back with like tunings that I didn't see.
And yeah, I did forget like the weight decay on the value embeddings and my atom betas were not sufficiently tuned and these things jointly interact.”
Mar 20, 2026
Karpathy: Autonomous agent 'Dobby' manages all home systems and security cameras
“So it controls all of my lights, my HVAC, my shades the pool and the spa, and also my security system. So I have a camera pointed outside of the house, and anytime someone rolls in, I have a Quinn a Quinn model that looks at the videos.”
Mar 20, 2026 positive
Karpathy: Maximizing AI leverage requires removing humans from prompting loops entirely
“To get the most out of the tools that have become available now, you have to remove yourself as the bottleneck. You can't be there to prompt the next thing. You're, you need to take yourself outside
you have to arrange things such that they're completely auto…”
Mar 20, 2026 positive
Karpathy: Coding agent failures are user skill issues, not capability limits
“Even if they don't work, I 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. Like I just don't, I didn't give good enough inst…”
Mar 20, 2026 bullish
Karpathy: Software industry must reconfigure for agent customers instead of humans
“So I think the industry just has to reconfigure in so many ways that it's like the customer is not the human anymore. It's like agents who are acting on behalf of humans. And this refactoring will be, will probably be substantial in certain sense.”
Mar 20, 2026 positive
Mar 20, 2026 neutral
Karpathy: Restricting personal AI agents from email and calendar access
“I didn't really take advantage of a lot of, like, email and calendar and all this other stuff, and I didn't give it access, because I'm still a little bit, like, suspicious, and it's still very new and rough around the edges, so I didn't want to give it, like,…”
Mar 20, 2026 bullish
Karpathy: Autonomous agent tool creation will be trivial within three years
“I kind of feel like this kind of stuff that I just talked about, this should be free, like in a year or two or three. There's no bi-coding involved. This is trivial. This is table stakes. This is like any AI, even the open source models, et cetera, can like do…”