---
title: Andrej Karpathy
url: https://ftrlg.com/en/wiki/andrej-karpathy/
lang: en
published: 2026-10-08
version: 1
summary: AI researcher, a co-founder of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla. Coined the terms “vibe coding” and “agentic engineering”.
cite_as: "future.log, «Andrej Karpathy», https://ftrlg.com/en/wiki/andrej-karpathy/"
license: CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
---

# Andrej Karpathy

**Andrej Karpathy** is an AI researcher, a co-founder of [OpenAI](https://ftrlg.com/en/models/openai/) and former director of AI at Tesla. He coined the terms “[vibe coding](https://ftrlg.com/en/wiki/vibe-coding/)” (2025) and “[agentic engineering](https://ftrlg.com/en/wiki/agentic-engineering/)” (2026).

## Biography

- **2011** PhD at Stanford (until 2015): creator and lead instructor of Stanford's first deep learning course, CS231n.[^1] <!-- ¶ c6tjme5yu -->
- **2015** Co-founder and research scientist at OpenAI (until 2017).[^1] <!-- ¶ cfnxqmhcm -->
- **2017** Director of AI at Tesla (until 2022): led the Autopilot computer vision team.[^1] <!-- ¶ cqvpeid37 -->
- **2023** Returns to OpenAI (until 2024): builds a team working on midtraining and synthetic data.[^1] <!-- ¶ cac5dniki -->
- **2024** Makes educational videos about AI for his YouTube channel.[^1] <!-- ¶ cuntbb5x3 -->

## Signals in the wiki

- 2026-10-11 — Andrej Karpathy: «Around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come in contact with LLMs, while ~5,000 have access to frontier-grade systems internally» — on the widening gap in understanding AI capability between the public, professionals and the labs (https://ftrlg.com/en/signals/cc3qwtwnz/) <!-- ¶ cc3qwtwnz -->
- 2025-10-17 — Andrej Karpathy: «More accurately described as the decade of agents … very early agents that are extremely impressive and that I use daily … they just don’t work … It will take about a decade to work through all of those issues» — on the Dwarkesh Podcast, answering why it is the decade and not the year of agents, and what the bottlenecks are (https://ftrlg.com/en/signals/ccwmjv2bu/) <!-- ¶ ccwmjv2bu -->
- 2025-02-02 — Andrej Karpathy: «Forget that the code even exists» — about his own throwaway weekend projects (https://ftrlg.com/en/signals/ckzqnwehb/) <!-- ¶ ckzqnwehb -->

## Sources · whitelist

- [X (@karpathy)](https://x.com/karpathy)
- [karpathy.ai](https://karpathy.ai/)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy)

## See also

[Vibe coding](https://ftrlg.com/en/wiki/vibe-coding/) · [Agentic engineering](https://ftrlg.com/en/wiki/agentic-engineering/)

## References

[^1]: Andrej Karpathy — personal website. [karpathy.ai](https://karpathy.ai/)

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