Karpathy says developers have 'AI Psychosis.' Everyone else is next
9 hours ago
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- Andrej Karpathy highlights a perception gap in AI, with developers experiencing 'AI Psychosis' due to staggering improvements in coding tools like OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code.
- Developers are first to feel AI's impact because software uniquely combines frontier-model capability, AI fluency, and deep domain expertise, making AI transformational there.
- The perception gap exists because reinforcement learning works best with verifiable reward functions, making coding and math more trainable than other domains, and B2B revenue drives focus on these areas.
- AI tools are now expanding beyond software, with Anthropic's Claude Cowork bringing agentic tools to HR, operations, finance, and design, following a similar adoption path as Claude Code.
- A Gallup study shows growing Gen Z frustration with AI, with 31% saying AI makes them angry, partly due to low-quality consumer experiences and institutional confusion, unlike professional tools.
- Job losses are increasing, with AI eliminating about 16,000 net U.S. jobs monthly, disproportionately affecting Gen Z in roles like data entry and customer service, and tech layoffs are rising.
- Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview demonstrates emergent cybersecurity capabilities from general model improvements, identifying zero-day vulnerabilities and old bugs without explicit training.
- Meta's internal 'Claudeonomics' dashboard shows high AI token consumption among employees, with top engineers potentially achieving 10x productivity, indicating aggressive adoption in large companies.
- The spread of AI's impact is driven by improving models on technical tasks, leading to downstream capabilities in security, law, medicine, and finance, with developers serving as a preview for other industries.