--- title: **Andrej Karpathy, former AI developer at Tesla and... description: Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla and OpenAI AI researcher, says programming has become 'unrecognizable' since December 2025, when AI agents became reliably... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/andrej-karpathy-former-ai-developer-at-tesla-and-openai-says-programming-with-ai-agents-has-chan-pxew4zekq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: **Andrej Karpathy, former AI developer at Tesla and OpenAI, says programming with AI agents has changed fundamentally over the past two months.** | daily.dev og:description: Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla and OpenAI AI researcher, says programming has become 'unrecognizable' since December 2025, when AI agents became reliably... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/andrej-karpathy-former-ai-developer-at-tesla-and-openai-says-programming-with-ai-agents-has-chan-pxew4zekq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/pxew4ZeKq.png og:image:alt: **Andrej Karpathy, former AI developer at Tesla and OpenAI, says programming with AI agents has changed fundamentally over the past two months.** og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # **Andrej Karpathy, former AI developer at Tesla and OpenAI, says programming with AI agents has changed fundamentally over the past two months.** **[Alexey Zerkalenkov](https://daily.dev/sources/tzhsbevyajhcmr0fmoxfj)** · [@alexeyzerkalenkov](https://daily.dev/alexeyzerkalenkov) · 130 upvotes · 28 comments ## Summary Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla and OpenAI AI researcher, says programming has become 'unrecognizable' since December 2025, when AI agents became reliably capable. He describes an AI agent independently building a video analysis dashboard in 30 minutes — a task that previously would have taken a full weekend. Karpathy notes the shift from typing code to directing AI agents in plain English, while still requiring human oversight, judgment, and direction. Notably, he held the opposite view as recently as October 2025, calling AI agent hype exaggerated, but changed his position after the release of Opus 4.5 and Codex 5.2. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ezpie** · 12 upvotes > fun fact his openclaw bot thing managed to expose his I believe openAI private keys. It's on twitter. Though sadly the person who tweeted it covered the keys so no stealing apparantly. **@envico801** · 9 upvotes > Its all fomo **@harshifu** · 8 upvotes > One serious downside of relying too much on LLMs is something people call **LLM brain poisoning.** When we constantly ask AI for answers, ideas, or code, we slowly stop doing the hard thinking ourselves. The brain skips the struggle that actually builds understanding. Over time this is weakening our problem-solving, memory, and critical thinking. It is giving is like we’re becoming more productive, but sometimes it is just an **illusion of intelligence**, where the AI is thinking more than we are. **@aidanl** · 6 upvotes > I’ve noticed a real difference too recently. Managed to get auth and a bunch of other features set up in an hour or so. Agents are certainly becoming a lot more useful **@oluwolesayo** · 2 upvotes > I still believe human supervision and direction will always be needed ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#vibe-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/vibe-coding) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/andrej-karpathy-former-ai-developer-at-tesla-and-openai-says-programming-with-ai-agents-has-chan-pxew4zekq) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/andrej-karpathy-former-ai-developer-at-tesla-and-openai-says-programming-with-ai-agents-has-chan-pxew4zekq","headline":"**Andrej Karpathy, former AI developer at Tesla and OpenAI, says programming with AI agents has changed fundamentally over the past two months.**","text":"Shared: Andrej Karpathy says programming is \"unrecognizable\" now that AI agents actually work","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/andrej-karpathy-former-ai-developer-at-tesla-and-openai-says-programming-with-ai-agents-has-chan-pxew4zekq","datePublished":"2026-03-01T12:09:29.487Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T07:22:54.368Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexey Zerkalenkov","url":"https://daily.dev/alexeyzerkalenkov","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocKQBwPwaHC4XrPy0rniDybogCxlwDp7QCLkbwsqNRQSFhqDIlIf=s96-c","description":"Fullstack AI Engineer","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":8470}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--ZrL_HSsR--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2006","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":130},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":28}],"sharedContent":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/NFP1hdSHM"},"comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"fun fact his openclaw bot thing managed to expose his I believe openAI private keys. It’s on twitter. 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