Karpathy

A quick note before we start: yes, this was published on April 1st. No, it’s not an April Fools’ joke. Multiple trade press outlets — Business Insider, AOL, letsdatascience.com — covered this as straight news, and Karpathy has since confirmed the demo is real. With that cleared up: what Andrej Karpathy demonstrated this week is one of the clearest visions of where personal AI agents are actually going. The Demo Karpathy built an OpenClaw agent he named Dobby. The task he gave it: scan the local network, discover connected devices, and figure out how to control them. ...

When Andrej Karpathy drops something on a Sunday night, the ML world stops scrolling. This past weekend, the former Tesla AI lead, OpenAI co-founder, and man who coined “vibe coding” posted a 630-line Python script called autoresearch — and by Monday morning it had 8.6 million views on X and was being distributed across builder networks worldwide. The pitch is deceptively simple: give an AI agent a training script, a GPU, and a compute budget, then go to sleep. Wake up to hundreds of completed experiments. ...