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Andrej Karpathy on AI

4 quotes from Andrej Karpathy on the wall, 2024 to 2025, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include understandingai.org, Andrej Karpathy (X), thezvi.substack.com. Topics: hype, science, money. Open on the wall.

1. 2025

2. You're sucking supervision through a straw

   News30 October 2025understandingai.org#science#hype

   Andrej Karpathy, on Dwarkesh Patel's podcast in 2025, describing the weakness of reinforcement learning for training AI models.

   AI skeptics and AI boosters are both wrong

3. We're in an intelligence explosion already and have been for decades

   News30 October 2025understandingai.org#hype#science

   Andrej Karpathy, on Dwarkesh Patel's podcast in 2025, arguing that AI progress is a continuation of decades of computing advances rather than a sudden new phenomenon.

   AI skeptics and AI boosters are both wrong

4. 2024

5. Trained on a joke of a budget

   News26 December 2024Andrej Karpathy (X)#money#hype

   Andrej Karpathy, on X (December 26, 2024), commenting on DeepSeek's low-cost training of a frontier-grade open weights LLM.

   Andrej Karpathy on X

6. What is the name for the paranoid feeling that what you just read was LLM generated

   News24 October 2024thezvi.substack.com#culture#hype

   Andrej Karpathy asked this question on Twitter, quoted in Zvi Mowshowitz's AI #87 newsletter, October 2024.

   AI #87: Staying in Character