Andrej Karpathy

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• Someone recently suggested to me that the reason OpenClaw moment was so big is because it's the first time a large group of non-technical people (who otherwise only knew AI as synonymous with ChatGPT as a website) experiAndrej Karpathy · 122d
• Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability. The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowedAndrej Karpathy · 122d
• This is a new paradigm for interacting with Claude that is significantly more "inline" with all the other human activity org-wide. Once you do all of the under the hood engineering work to make this "just work" (e.g. acrAndrej Karpathy · 47d
• One pattern I find useful for working with LLMs is a nice long ramble session. Sometimes the LLM needs more bits to understand what you're trying to achieve, but you're too lazy to type them. In these cases I like to leaAndrej Karpathy · 19d
• In awe of SpaceX and its story - past, present and the future. You can think about it in 10+ different ways and continue re-blowing your mind in circles. Huge congrats to the team! 🚀Andrej Karpathy · 58d
• More on the pelican on the bicycle test from @simonw: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/ I uploaded the source here so it's playable in the browser, forkable etc. https://karpathy.ai/lotr-movie/ LooAndrej Karpathy · 7d
• We're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. "create an svg of pelican on a bicycle". As one idea to generalize it, I was interested what Opus 5 would do if I gave it the first paragraph of the LAndrej Karpathy · 8d
• This is a super exciting release - Claude Fable 5 is the same underlying model as Mythos but with added safeguards. The benchmarks are great and it's SOTA on everything by a margin but I'll add that *qualitatively* also,Andrej Karpathy · 61d
• Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about educaAndrej Karpathy · 82d
• This works really well btw, at the end of your query ask your LLM to "structure your response as HTML", then view the generated file in your browser. I've also had some success asking the LLM to present its output as sliAndrej Karpathy · 90d