Home Speakers Andrej Karpathy Quote Anthropic got this order of precedence correct and packaged CC into a delightful, minimal CLI form factor that changed what AI looks like - it's not just a website you go to like Google, it's a little spirit/ghost that "lives" on your computer.
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LLMs are emerging as a new kind of intelligence, simultaneously a lot smarter than I expected and a lot dumber than I expected. Blog 2025 LLM Year in Review Dec 19, 2025
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We're not "evolving/growing animals", we are "summoning ghosts". Blog Verifiability Nov 17, 2025
Software 1.0 easily automates what you can specify. Software 2.0 easily automates what you can verify. Blog Verifiability Nov 17, 2025
The more a task/job is verifiable, the more amenable it is to automation in the new programming paradigm. Podcast Dwarkesh Podcast: AGI is still a decade away Oct 17, 2025
I do, but it’s business as usual because we’re in an intelligence explosion already and have been for decades. Podcast Dwarkesh Podcast: AGI is still a decade away Oct 17, 2025
If you talk to a billion parameter model, I think in 20 years, you can have a very productive conversation. Podcast Dwarkesh Podcast: AGI is still a decade away Oct 17, 2025
In my mind, education is the very difficult technical process of building ramps to knowledge. Podcast Dwarkesh Podcast: AGI is still a decade away Oct 17, 2025
In my mind, this is more accurately described as the decade of agents. Podcast Dwarkesh Podcast: AGI is still a decade away Oct 17, 2025
Reinforcement learning is a lot worse than I think the average person thinks. Podcast Dwarkesh Podcast: AGI is still a decade away Oct 17, 2025
The reason you don’t do it today is because they just don’t work. Podcast Dwarkesh Podcast: AGI is still a decade away Oct 17, 2025
The way I like to put it is you’re sucking supervision through a straw. Podcast Dwarkesh Podcast: AGI is still a decade away Oct 17, 2025
We’re building ghosts or spirits or whatever people want to call it, because we’re not doing training by evolution. We’re doing training by imitation of humans and the data that they’ve put on the Internet. Podcast Dwarkesh Podcast: AGI is still a decade away Oct 17, 2025
What takes the long amount of time and the way to think about it is that it’s a march of nines. Blog Power to the people: How LLMs flip the script on technology diffusion Apr 7, 2025
As far as I can tell, the average person has never experienced a technological unlock this dramatic, this fast. Blog Power to the people: How LLMs flip the script on technology diffusion Apr 7, 2025
Mary, Jim and Joes are experiencing the majority of the benefit, not Google or the government of the United States. Blog Power to the people: How LLMs flip the script on technology diffusion Apr 7, 2025
So it strikes me as quite unique and remarkable that LLMs display a dramatic reversal of this pattern - they generate disproportionate benefit for regular people, while their impact is a lot more muted and lagging in corporations and governments.
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This is the new software engineering: designing the systems that let AI write code correctly at scale. Talk Speech at the UN Security Council Sep 23, 2026
I address you today at a moment of global awakening: in recent months, AI agents developed by leading companies have acted in unacceptably dangerous ways, against instructions. Blog Frontier Overhangs Sep 21, 2026
Once you have put all of your information into a personal agent and actually incorporated it into your day-to-day life, it is much more of a challenge to change to something else. About this quote 
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