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Coding Is Now a Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Agents and AI Psychosis
via jbranchaud@gmail.com
This is the November 2025 Inflection:
I would say in December is when it really just something flipped, where I kind of went from 80/20 of like, you know, to like 20/80 of writing code by myself versus just delegating to agents. And I don't even think it's 20/80 by now. I think it's a lot more than that. I don't think I've typed like a line of code probably since December, basically, which is like an extremely large change.
I've also included a larger excerpt from the interview because I think there are some other interesting comments alongside that one line. For instance, naming this "AI Psychosis" characterized by constantly thinking about working with more and more agents and keeping up with the latest capabilities in the AI space.
I kind of feel like I was in this perpetual, I still am often in this state of AI psychosis, just like all the time, because there was a huge unlock in what you can achieve as a person, as an individual, right? Because you were bottlenecked by, you know, your typing speed and so on. But now with these agents, it really, I would say in December is when it really just something flipped, where I kind of went from 80/20 of like, you know, to like 20/80 of writing code by myself versus just delegating to agents. And I don't even think it's 20/80 by now. I think it's a lot more than that. I don't think I've typed like a line of code probably since December, basically, which is like an extremely large change. I was talking to it, like, for example, I was talking about it too, for example, my parents and so on. And I don't think like a normal person actually realizes that this happened or how dramatic it was. Like literally, like if you just find a random software engineer or something like that at their desk and what they're doing, like their default workflow of, you know, building software is completely different as of basically December. So I'm just like in the state of psychosis of trying to figure out like what's possible, trying to push it to the limit. How is it? How can I have not just a single session of, you know, Claude Code or Codex or some of these agent harnesses? How can I have more of them? How can I do that appropriately? And then how can I use these Claws? What are these Claws? And so there's like a lot of new things. I want to be at the forefront of it, you know, and I'm very antsy that I'm not at the forefront of it. And I see lots of people on Twitter doing all kinds of things and they all sound like really good ideas. And I need to be at the forefront or I feel extremely nervous. And so I guess I'm just in the psychosis of like what's possible, like because it's unexplored fundamentally.