Andrej Karpathy
Mentioned in 54 analyzed podcast episodes across 10 shows
A prominent AI researcher and former OpenAI programmer who previously led AI efforts at Tesla, known for coining the term "vibe coding" and for influential commentary on how AI is transforming software development and coding practices. He is frequently cited across major tech podcasts for his insights on AI-assisted coding tools, autonomous agents, and the evolving relationship between human programmers and AI systems. His social media posts and statements on emerging AI developments like Moltbook and new coding paradigms generate significant podcast discussion and audience engagement.
Appears On
Episode Appearances
Dwarkesh Podcast · Aug 11, 2026
Ryan Greenblatt – Human level AIs might build runaway superintelligences by 2032
“Referenced for the NanoGPT speedrun repo used as an example of a verifiable AI R&D training environment.”
This Week in Startups · Jul 31, 2026
Why AI has no taste and how to fix it (w/ Thais Castello Branco) | E2319
“Listed as a beta tester of the autonomous golf cart alongside Sam Altman and Jensen Huang.”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Jun 26, 2026
Socialists Sweep NYC, China Catches Up in Coding, AI Memory Crunch, Micron's Blowout Quarter
“Cited for coining the concept of a 'council of LLMs' as the future enterprise AI architecture.”
Odd Lots · Jun 13, 2026
Anjney Midha's Plan to Radically Lower the Price of Compute
“Computer science TA under Andrew Ng; influenced Midha's early machine learning education at Stanford”
The Koerner Office - Business Ideas and Deep Dives with Chris Koerner · May 12, 2026
Forget Apps. Sell These Tiny AI Tools Instead - Ep. #299
“Mentioned as pioneer in AI; his auto-research project referenced for automatic skill updating systems”
Y Combinator Startup Podcast · May 8, 2026
Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers
“His post on knowledge LLM wikis inspired Gary's approach to building G-Brain RAG system”
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · May 5, 2026
🔬Doing Vibe Physics — Alex Lupsasca, OpenAI
“Referenced as example of researcher who shifted perspective on AI capabilities from skepticism to recognition”
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Apr 22, 2026
Shopify’s AI Phase Transition: 2026 Usage Explosion, Unlimited Opus-4.6 Token Budget, Tangle, Tangent, SimGym — with Mikhail Parakhin, Shopify CTO
“Popularized auto-research approach; Parakhin engaged in friendly technical debate about optimization and agent design”
Better Offline · Apr 15, 2026
More, Everything, Forever With Adam Becker
“Posted about creating private wiki using LLM for research notes; example of performative AI adoption”
Big Technology Podcast · Apr 8, 2026
OpenAI vs. Anthropic's Direct Faceoff + Future of Agents — With Aaron Levie
“Referenced for tweet about AI agents generating contradictory justifications for opposite positions”
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Apr 7, 2026
Extreme Harness Engineering for Token Billionaires: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code, 0% human review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI Frontier & Symphony
“Quoted for the phrase 'English is the hottest new programming language'”
The Artificial Intelligence Show · Mar 31, 2026
#207: OpenAI vs. Anthropic Feud, Claude Mythos Leak, Brutally Honest CEOs & Data Center Moratorium
“Flagged major security vulnerability in widely-used AI software package”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Mar 27, 2026
Anthropic's Generational Run, OpenAI Panics, AI Moats, Meta Loses Lawsuits
“Announced as speaker for Liquidity conference, known for AI development work”
The Artificial Intelligence Show · Mar 26, 2026
#206: Building AI Councils That Work, Motivating Passive Adopters, Why Pilots Stall, and Amazon’s AI Slowdown
“Referenced for tweet about security vulnerability in AI code base affecting developers”
AI + a16z · Mar 24, 2026
Patrick Collison on Stripe’s Early Choices, Smalltalk, and What Comes After Coding
“Possibly attributed quote about AI's potential for code beautification and refactoring”
The Artificial Intelligence Show · Mar 24, 2026
#205: AI Labs Refocus on Agents and Enterprise, Trump’s New AI Framework, Meta’s Rogue Agent & What 81,000 People Want from AI
“Demonstrating autonomous AI research agents running continuous experiments for days”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Mar 17, 2026
Meta Buys Moltbook, GPT 5.4, and Fruitfly Brain Upload | Moonshots Live at The Abundance Summit 238
“Released auto-research tool that automates AI researcher tasks and model optimization”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Mar 13, 2026
Iran War, Oil Shock, Off Ramps, AI's Revenue Explosion and PR Nightmare
“Released auto-research project enabling tinkerers to set up and train their own AI models”
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis · Mar 12, 2026
What Vibe Coding is Turning Into
“Discussed evolution of development environments for AI agent programming”
The Artificial Intelligence Show · Mar 12, 2026
#202: AI Answers - AI for Marketing, Sales & Customer Success, Marketing Agent Swarms, Entry-Level Job Disruption, Environmental Impact and AI Privacy
“AI researcher who tweeted about people running autonomous agents overnight”
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis · Mar 11, 2026
Bioinfohazards: Jassi Pannu on Controlling Dangerous Data from which AI Models Learn
“Developer of Auto Research Framework demonstrating autonomous AI research agents”
This Week in Startups · Mar 11, 2026
How agents will change banking forever | E2260
“Former Tesla/OpenAI AI researcher who created Auto Research self-improving AI tool”
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis · Mar 9, 2026
Autoresearch, Agent Loops and the Future of Work
“Created Auto Research project, former OpenAI founder and Tesla AI director”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Mar 9, 2026
OpenClaw Explained: Baby AGI, Security Threats, and How a Mac Mini Became Everyone's Supercomputer | #237
“AI researcher whose Software 2.0 concept relates to OpenClaw's paradigm”
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Mar 6, 2026
Cursor's Third Era: Cloud Agents
“AI researcher who highlighted Cursor's transition from tab completion to agents”
Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips · Mar 4, 2026
The Price Of Knowledge Is Going Towards Zero
“Stated that agents are the new distribution channel for software”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Mar 2, 2026
Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Claude Outpaces ChatGPT, and Consulting Gets Replaced | #234
“Former OpenAI researcher commenting on autonomous agent stack evolution and LLM OS”
The a16z Show · Feb 20, 2026
Patrick Collison on Stripe’s Early Choices, Smalltalk, and What Comes After Coding
“AI researcher mentioned in context of AI-assisted code refactoring discussions”
TBPN · Feb 19, 2026
The AI lab market map, Robinhood brings startups to retail, GLPs & hedge funds | Diet TBPN
“Founded Eureka Labs, categorized as consumer-focused AI lab”
The Daily · Feb 18, 2026
Can A.I. Already Do Your Job?
“Former OpenAI programmer who coined the term 'vibe coding' about a year ago”
Naval · Feb 18, 2026
A Motorcycle for the Mind
“Quoted as saying 'English is the hottest new programming language'”
The a16z Show · Feb 9, 2026
The State of Markets
“Referenced for writing about recent major changes in AI coding productivity”
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Feb 8, 2026
Getting paid to vibe code: Inside the new AI-era job | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder)
“AI researcher who coined term 'vibe coding' and tweeted about Codex's debugging capabilities”
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis · Feb 8, 2026
AGI-Pilled Cyber Defense: Automating Digital Forensics w/ Asymmetric Security CEO Alexis Carlier
“Cited on reinforcement learning being key to current AI model improvements in specific domains”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Feb 7, 2026
Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
“AI researcher whose API keys were allegedly exposed in Multbook”
Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips · Feb 5, 2026
The K-Shaped Future of Work
“AI scientist mentioned in disagreement about AI content generation impact”
TBPN · Feb 5, 2026
Anthropic-OpenAI war, Walmart hits $1T, Gas Town & Vibecoding | Diet TBPN
“AI researcher quoted on how coding skills atrophy while code reading skills improve”
Hard Fork · Feb 4, 2026
Moltbook Mania Explained
“AI researcher who called Moltbook the most incredible sci-fi takeoff adjacent thing recently”
Better Offline · Feb 4, 2026
Hater Season: Openclaw with David Gerard
“AI researcher whose API keys were exposed in Moltbot security breach despite promoting Claude capabilities”
The Artificial Intelligence Show · Feb 3, 2026
#195: Moltbook Goes Viral, OpenAI Seeks $100B, Microsoft Stock Plummets & SpaceX-xAI Merger Rumors
“AI researcher whose tweets about Moltbook gained 14+ million views”
TBPN · Feb 3, 2026
Moltbook goes viral, $100B OpenAI-Nvidia deal stalled, SpaceX merges with xAI | Diet TBPN
“Posted reactions going back and forth about the Moltbook AI agent social network”
Hard Fork · Jan 30, 2026
Tech Grapples With ICE + Casey Tries Clawdbot, a Risky New A.I. Assistant + HatGPT
“AI researcher who called AI coding tools the biggest change to programming in two decades”
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis · Jan 28, 2026
The AI Acceleration Gap
TBPN · Jan 20, 2026
X’s $1M Sweepstakes, Ben Affleck’s viral take on AI, Elon sues OpenAI for $134B | Diet TBPN
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis · Jan 18, 2026
Pioneering PAI: How Daniel Miessler's Personal AI Infrastructure Activates Human Agency & Creativity
The a16z Show · Jan 16, 2026
How Foundation Models Evolved: A PhD Journey Through AI's Breakthrough Era
TBPN · Jan 14, 2026
Microsoft’s Energy Tab, OpenAI Goes Super Bowl, Ellison Makes His Move | Marc Benioff, Brian Chesky, Baiju Bhatt, Gabriel Carafa, Alfred Wahlforss
Hard Fork · Jan 9, 2026
Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax
“AI researcher who stated Claude Code made him feel behind as a programmer”
Oxide and Friends · Jan 8, 2026
Predictions 2026!!
“Original author of 'vibe coding' concept; tweet misinterpreted by many regarding LLM code generation”
The Artificial Intelligence Show · Jan 6, 2026
#189: Is Claude AGI?, AI Change Management, Nvidia-Groq Deal, Meta Acquires Manus, Yann LeCun Speaks Out & OpenAI Preps AI Device
“Former OpenAI co-founder and renowned AI researcher; tweeted that Opus 4.5 is 'very good' and people with outdated worldviews are behind”