AI researcher and educator
Andrej Karpathy
Andrej Karpathy is an AI researcher and educator, a founding member of OpenAI, and a former director of AI at Tesla working on computer vision.
About Andrej Karpathy
Andrej Karpathy is an AI researcher and educator whose public teaching covers neural networks and large language models. His educational videos include both technical lessons on building models and introductions for a general audience.
He was a founding member and research scientist at OpenAI, led Tesla's AI and computer vision work from 2017 to 2022, and returned to OpenAI in 2023 to work on midtraining and synthetic data. During his PhD at Stanford, he designed and taught the CS231n course on deep learning for visual recognition.
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- Epic Says Its New Launcher Is "Vibe Coded": Linux Support and a Faster-Than-Steam Claim →
Epic Games released a preview of a rebuilt Epic Games Launcher for Windows, Mac and Linux and said in its own blog post that it was vibe coded. Epic claims it starts faster and reaches the store 46 percent faster than Steam; outlets have not yet tested that. Here is what is confirmed and what is not.
- How to Use ASD-STE100 With AI: A Practical Guide to Plain, Unambiguous Writing →
A practical, evergreen guide to using ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English with AI coding agents: three ways to apply it (skill, one-line prompt, AGENTS.md rules), the rules that matter most, rewrite recipes for docs, errors and incident reports, a small script to check your output, and how to fix common problems.
- Karpathy: "The External World Has Seen the Preview" of AI →
Andrej Karpathy, now at Anthropic, split the world into four tiers of AI exposure and said roughly 5,000 people have access to internal frontier systems. Here is what he claimed, why the estimates are his own, and what it means for builders.
- PPT Master: Open-Source Skill That Turns Documents Into Native, Editable PowerPoint →
hugohe3/ppt-master is trending on GitHub: an agent skill that generates PowerPoint decks with native shapes, charts, transitions and narration instead of flattened images. We walk through install, cost, limits and alternatives.
- Linus Torvalds on AI: "I Use It for the Things I'm Bad At" and Why the Kernel Is Different →
At Open Source Summit Europe, Linus Torvalds said he really likes using AI, defended vibe coding for newcomers, and described AI review and bug reports as both improving Linux and stressing maintainers. Here are his words, in context.