OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy calls AI Agents slop

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy calls AI Agents slop:

"Overall, the models are not there. And I feel like the industry [...] it's making too big a jump and it's trying to pretend that this is amazing. And it's not - it's slop! And I think they are not coming to terms with it. And maybe they are trying to fundraise or something like that, I'm not sure what's going on."

This is peak 2025 AI energy.

↳ Altman: “AGI soon, trillion-dollar infra incoming.” ↳ Karpathy: “Bro… your agents can’t even book a flight.”

It’s hilarious but also telling.

You can feel the rift forming:

→ The scalers want compute, hype, and capital. → The builders want cognition, reasoning, and patience.

If Karpathy’s right, the next decade is about real intelligence - not vibe-coded chatbots pretending to be CEOs’ assistants.

If Altman’s right, OpenAI becomes the trillion-dollar AGI empire.

Either way, someone’s holding the bag.

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