karpathy

I did a fireside chat at Sequoia Ascent 2026.

2025 has been a strong and eventful year of progress in LLMs.

Following up on digital hygiene, I wanted to write up my (evolving, opinionated) guide to chemical hygiene.

TLDR: https://karpathy.ai/hncapsule/ Yesterday I stumbled on this HN thread Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from now, where Gemini 3 was hallucinating the frontpage of 10 years from now.

The space of intelligences is large and animal intelligence (the only kind we've ever known) is only a single point (or a little cloud), arising from a very specific kind of optimization that is fundamentally distinct from that of our technology.

AI has been compared to various historical precedents: electricity, industrial revolution, etc., I think the strongest analogy is that of AI as a new computing paradigm because both are fundamentally about the automation of digital information processing.

Finally had a chance to listen through this Dwarkesh pod with Sutton, which was interesting and amusing.

Very often, I sit down at a restaurant, look through their menu, and feel... kind of stuck.

Transformative technologies usually follow a top-down diffusion path: originating in government or military contexts, passing through corporations, and eventually reaching individuals - think electricity, cryptography, computers, flight, the internet, or…

About 2 months ago I stumbled by this Bryan Johnson video on How I FIXED My Terrible Sleep - 10 Habits.