{"id":553579,"date":"2026-03-22T16:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T16:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/553579\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T16:51:08","slug":"andrej-karpathy-says-he-uses-an-ai-agent-to-control-his-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/553579\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrej Karpathy Says He Uses an AI Agent to Control His Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"

How does a former OpenAI and Tesla<\/a> researcher and engineer turn off the lights in his house?<\/p>\n

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He said he connects them to an AI agent and asks a bot to do it, of course.<\/p>\n

Andrej Karpathy \u2014 the founder at Eureka Labs, an OpenAI cofounder, the former director of AI at Tesla, and the engineer who coined the term “vibe coding”<\/a> \u2014 told the “No Priors” podcast he’s built a system he calls “Dobby” (like the Harry Potter house elf) to handle some household chores.<\/p>\n

“I have a claw basically that takes care of my home, and I call him Dobby the Elf Claw,” he said in the interview, which was released on Friday. “It controls all of my lights, my HVAC, my shades, the pool, the spa, and also the security system.”<\/p>\n

AI claws<\/a> are a new wave of autonomous AI agents that can take actions on a user’s behalf. Unlike traditional large language models that respond in blocks of text, these systems can operate apps and internet-connected devices directly, handling tasks like research, scheduling, and home automation.<\/p>\n

The tools have gained traction in recent months, with open-source frameworks like OpenClaw helping popularize the approach. Silicon Valley giants and startups are now racing to build competitors<\/a>, and OpenAI scooped up OpenClaw and its creator, Peter Steinberger, in February.<\/p>\n

Karpathy said he is already using the system for everyday tasks, including tracking his deliveries.<\/p>\n

“It sends me a text to my WhatsApp,” he said. “It shows an image from the outside, and it says, ‘Hey, a FedEx truck just pulled up, and you might want to check it, you got new mail.'”<\/p>\n

He said the new system helped remove six separate apps from his phone \u2014 Dobby now controls them all.<\/p>\n

Karpathy’s setup just got a major hardware boost, too. Days before the interview, he posted on X that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had gifted him a DGX Station<\/a>, powered by a GB300 superchip designed for agentic AI workloads.<\/p>\n

“She’ll make for a beautiful, spacious home for my Dobby the House Elf claw, among lots of other tinkering,” Karpathy posted on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Karpathy said he isn’t losing any sleep about the system controlling his devices. He told Business Insider that Dobby connects to devices on his home’s local network, meaning those systems aren’t directly accessible from the internet.<\/p>\n

In fact, he said it’s helpful for his rest.<\/p>\n

“I can ask it, ‘Dobby, it’s sleepy time,'” he told the podcast. “That just means all of the lights go off.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How does a former OpenAI and Tesla researcher and engineer turn off the lights in his house? Loading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-553579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}