Andrej Karapathy’s 2025 LLM Year in Review

Link: https://x.com/karpathy/status/2002118205729562949

Context

This was more of a reflection post, of how his mental model has changed and how things are building up. I like it. It was a interesting and highly technical perspective. His opinion of LLMs as Ghost is so liberating, as it actually threatens me from my identity if we compare it with humans. Ghost makes sense, even dismissive it as a slave sort of relation right? Not in a bad way but kind of inferior relation for LLMs with humans. Agent that lives in the terminal is practical, for a developer or a human who understands what they are doing, they know what they want, its just too much menial for them to spend the energy on. I agree. There is a lot of work to be done, developers, don’t strap your belts, hone your hammers, its going to be needed. Also his post:

Source: techstructive-weekly-75