Meta is paying $100M signing bonuses to steal AI engineers - Anthropic got Karpathy anyway.
Andrej Karpathy moved from Slovakia to Toronto at 15
wanted to do quantum computing
got bored, switched to AI
now he's building the next Claude at Anthropic
here's his story:
> studied under Geoffrey Hinton - the Godfather of AI
> PhD at Stanford under Fei-Fei Li - she taught him how to think
> coined the term "vibe coding" - guiding AI instead of writing code
> one of the founding members of OpenAI
> Elon Musk personally recruited him to lead Tesla Autopilot AI
> now on Anthropic's pre-training team - teaching Claude how to understand the world
in 2012 he wrote: "we are very, very far, this depresses me"
10 years later he's one of the people building the systems he thought were impossible
Meta reportedly offers OpenAI engineers $100M signing bonuses to switch sides
and even Karpathy tweeted:
"I've never felt this much behind as a programmer"
the AI race is moving so fast even the people building it can't keep up
Nerds think it's normal to learn a CHEAT SHEET for every tool they use.
Ridiculous.
If I don't instantly know how to use your software, it's badly designed.
People forget to protect what goes into their context window, if a tool_call can be an agent, then it should be...
For example `ripgrep` adds a lot of noise when its used, if we can move that away for the context window we will get better results always.