Andrej Karpathy is an AI researcher, a co-founder of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla. He coined the terms “vibe coding” (2025) and “agentic engineering” (2026).
Biography
- 2011PhD at Stanford (until 2015): creator and lead instructor of Stanford’s first deep learning course, CS231n.1 ¶ c6tjme5yu
- 2015Co-founder and research scientist at OpenAI (until 2017).1 ¶ cfnxqmhcm
- 2017Director of AI at Tesla (until 2022): led the Autopilot computer vision team.1 ¶ cqvpeid37
- 2023Returns to OpenAI (until 2024): builds a team working on midtraining and synthetic data.1 ¶ cac5dniki
- 2024Makes educational videos about AI for his YouTube channel.1 ¶ cuntbb5x3
Signals in the wiki
- Work & jobs / 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
- Work & jobs / 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
- Software development / Andrej Karpathy: “Forget that the code even exists”about his own throwaway weekend projects
- Karpathy proposes the term “agentic engineering”Work & jobs · Software development · Agentic engineering · thenewstack.io ↗ ⧗
- Karpathy posts on X: “The hottest new programming language is English”Software development · Vibe coding · twitter.com ↗ ⧗