Andrej Karpathy — Operating Memory

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  "title": "Andrej Karpathy \u2014 Operating Memory",
  "description": "Andrej Karpathy is a co-founder of OpenAI, former Tesla AI director, and the researcher who coined Software 2.0 and vibe coding. This pack distills his technical stance on neural net engineering, LLM cognition, data engines, and his teaching philosophy \u2014 from 13 sources including Recipe19, Zero to Hero, and his 2025 AGI interview. For AI engineers and researchers who want his first-principles thinking in every session.",
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    "software-2.0",
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  "cover_quote": "Neural net training is a leaky abstraction \u2014 they are not off-the-shelf technology the second you deviate slightly fr...",
  "category": "engineering",
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  "version": {
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    "label": "stage-1-distillation",
    "updated": "2026-05-18",
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  "created": "2026-05-16",
  "sources": [
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      "title": "Andrej Karpathy \u2014 Software Is Changing (Again), YC AI Startup School",
      "date": "2025-06-18",
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      "covers": [
        "Software 3.0 framing",
        "LLM-as-OS analogy",
        "autonomy slider",
        "vibe coding",
        "everyone is a programmer",
        "partial autonomy apps"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "Lex333",
      "title": "Lex Fridman Podcast #333 \u2014 Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI",
      "date": "2022-10-29",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdiD-9MMpb0",

# AMP Routing — karpathy

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- operating-principles.md — core goals, worldview, life philosophy, AI/civilizational claims, learning directives

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| AI research, ML engineering, neural net design, data engines, autonomous systems | ai-and-teaching-philosophy.md |
| Writing, communication, teaching, explanation, rhetoric, persuasion | voice-and-rhetoric.md |
| Career, research direction, PhD craft, hiring, org structure, what to build | operating-principles.md + ai-and-teaching-philosophy.md |
| Long-term AI thinking, AGI, education, Software 1.0→3.0 framing | operating-principles.md + voice-and-rhetoric.md |
| LLM prompting, agent design, vibe coding vs agentic engineering | ai-and-teaching-philosophy.md + voice-and-rhetoric.md |