OpenAI Founding Member: Haven't Written a Line of Code Since December, Can't Use Agents Well? "That's Because You're Not Good at It"

According to CoinWorld, based on monitoring by 1M AI News, Andrej Karpathy, the proposer of the “vibe coding” concept and a founding member of OpenAI, revealed on the No Priors podcast that December of last year marked a turning point in his work style. Previously, he wrote code himself and delegated to agents at a ratio of about 80:20; after December, it reversed to 20:80, and “it might be even more so now,” “I probably haven’t written a line of code since December.” He describes this state as “AI psychosis”: the boundaries of agent capabilities have not been fully explored, “everything is possible, and all failures ultimately come down to skill issues.” He began to focus on token throughput, similar to GPU utilization during his PhD days, saying “if you haven’t used up your subscription quota, it means you’re not maximizing output.” He also described the “jaggedness” of agents: “I feel like I’m talking to a very smart PhD who has been doing system programming his whole life, and at the same time, talking to a ten-year-old child.”