{"id":556830,"date":"2026-03-22T10:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/556830\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T10:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:46:12","slug":"openai-cofounder-says-he-hasnt-written-a-line-of-code-in-months-and-is-in-a-state-of-psychosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/556830\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI cofounder says he hasn’t written a line of code in months and is in a ‘state of psychosis’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrej Karpathy, an OpenAI cofounder and\u00a0former director of AI at\u00a0Tesla<\/a>, admitted that he\u2019s not on the forefront of the field and feels nervous about it, despite all his accomplishments in AI.<\/p>\n

In an interview on the No Priors podcast<\/a> on Friday, the independent AI researcher, who is also the founder of Eureka Labs, explained a \u201cpsychosis\u201d he\u2019s been suffering from, even as AI agents have made his workflow and life at home more convenient.<\/p>\n

A tipping point came in December, when he noticed he was writing just 20% of his code with 80% delegated to an agent, reversing from an earlier split with 80% done by himself and 20% by an agent. That trend has continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve typed like a line of code probably since December, basically, which is an extremely large change,\u201d Karpathy said. \u201cI don\u2019t think a normal person actually realizes that this happened or how dramatic it was.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s not alone and added that the default workflow for building software has completely changed in recent months as agentic AI has exploded in popularity.<\/p>\n

OpenClaw<\/a> in particular has swept through the tech industry as users connect it to various applications, allowing it to manage calendars, browse the web, shop online, read files, write emails, and send messages via tools like WhatsApp.<\/p>\n

Its potential remains massive, and Karpathy described his struggle to fully envision what could come next, saying \u201cI\u2019m just like in the state of psychosis of trying to figure out what\u2019s possible, trying to push it to the limit.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI want to be at the forefront of it, and I\u2019m very antsy that I\u2019m not at the forefront of it. I see lots of people on Twitter<\/a> doing all kinds of things, and they all sound like really good ideas. And I need to be at the forefront or I feel extremely nervous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Karpathy also revealed that he went through a \u201cclaw psychosis\u201d in January while integrating an agent with various smart functions at his home.<\/p>\n

In fact, he\u2019s dubbed it \u201cDobby the House Elf claw,\u201d and it now controls his home\u2019s sound system, lighting, security functions, shades, HVAC, pool and spa.<\/p>\n

Previously, managing each one required using several different apps. But now, Karpathy said he just instructs Dobby what to do by sending messages via WhatsApp in natural language.<\/p>\n

Dobby also alerts him with a message when it uses the home\u2019s security cameras to detect a FedEx<\/a> truck that dropped off a delivery at his doorstep.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo Dobby is in charge of the house,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s been really fun to have these macro actions that maintain my house. I haven\u2019t like really pushed it way more beyond that, and I think people are doing a lot more crazy things with it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrej Karpathy, an OpenAI cofounder and\u00a0former director of AI at\u00a0Tesla, admitted that he\u2019s not on the forefront of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,17162,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-556830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-agents","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-au","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}