I did a fireside chat at Sequoia Ascent 2026. The YouTube video is here: YouTube Video Link As an experiment, I fed an LLM all of my recent blog posts and tweets, then I had it read this video's transcript and produce...

2025 has been a strong and eventful year of progress in LLMs. The following is a list of personally notable and mildly surprising "paradigm changes" - things that altered the landscape and stood out to me conceptually....

Following up on digital hygiene , I wanted to write up my (evolving, opinionated) guide to chemical hygiene. I keep ranting about this topic to all of my friends recently (you can tell I'm really fun at parties), so I...

TLDR: https://karpathy.ai/hncapsule/ Yesterday I stumbled on this HN thread Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from now , where Gemini 3 was hallucinating the frontpage of 10 years from now....

The space of intelligences is large and animal intelligence (the only kind we've ever known) is only a single point (or a little cloud), arising from a very specific kind of optimization that is fundamentally distinct...