--- title: OpenAI Co-Founder: AI Agents Are Still 10 Years Away description: OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy predicts AI agents are still a decade away from replacing human workers, despite recent progress with large language models.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-co-founder-ai-agents-are-still-10-years-away-jwyarmzzq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenAI Co-Founder: AI Agents Are Still 10 Years Away | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy predicts AI agents are still a decade away from replacing human workers, despite recent progress with large language models.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-co-founder-ai-agents-are-still-10-years-away-jwyarmzzq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JWyaRmZZq.png og:image:alt: OpenAI Co-Founder: AI Agents Are Still 10 Years Away 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. # OpenAI Co-Founder: AI Agents Are Still 10 Years Away **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 8 min read · 19 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy predicts AI agents are still a decade away from replacing human workers, despite recent progress with large language models. He argues the industry is over-hyping current capabilities, citing issues like lack of multimodal functionality, continual learning, and the significant demo-to-product gap. Karpathy draws from his experience leading Tesla's self-driving efforts to illustrate how difficult it is to move from working demos to production-ready systems. He's now focusing on AI education through Eureka Labs, releasing projects like nanochat to help developers understand LLM implementation from the ground up. ## 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. **@jchataigne** · 5 upvotes > Most developers have been experiencing LLMs and "agents" being very far from human-level programming. It's good that someone with visibility finally says it out loud. And of course that someone is Karpathy. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away](https://daily.dev/posts/andrej-karpathy-agi-is-still-a-decade-away-bvlwybhbu) · Tech Lead Digest · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-breakthroughs-in-robotics-won-t-change-your-life-any-time-soon-mg5mfagjg) · MIT Technology Review · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#machine-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/machine-learning), [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/openai-co-founder-ai-agents-are-still-10-years-away-jwyarmzzq) ```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":"TechArticle","headline":"OpenAI Co-Founder: AI Agents Are Still 10 Years Away","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/openai-co-founder-ai-agents-are-still-10-years-away-jwyarmzzq","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/openai-co-founder-ai-agents-are-still-10-years-away-jwyarmzzq"},"datePublished":"2025-11-02T14:10:10.939Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T05:24:26.199Z","description":"OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy predicts AI agents are still a decade away from replacing human workers, despite recent progress with large language models....","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/0948047b6a74955e0a328acbb7b7a052?_a=AQAEulh","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/0948047b6a74955e0a328acbb7b7a052?_a=AQAEulh","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The New Stack","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The New Stack","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/newstack","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/newstack"},"commentCount":1,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/openai-co-founder-ai-agents-are-still-10-years-away-jwyarmzzq","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":19},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"keywords":"ai,ai-agents,llm,machine-learning,openai","timeRequired":"PT8M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The New Stack","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/newstack"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"OpenAI Co-Founder: AI Agents Are Still 10 Years Away"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/openai-co-founder-ai-agents-are-still-10-years-away-jwyarmzzq","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Most developers have been experiencing LLMs and “agents” being very far from human-level programming. 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