karpathy-agi-decade-away SKILL.md skillA
karpathy-agi-decade-away from michalstrnadel/source-to-skill is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add michalstrnadel/source-to-skill/karpathy-agi-decade-away@git:20261026.0e37020Pins git:20261026.0e37020 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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Andrej Karpathy on the Dwarkesh Podcast ("AGI is still a decade away", Oct 2025, 2h25m) distilled. Covers why agents need a decade (no continual learning, cognitive deficits), "ghosts not animals" and pre-training as crappy evolution, the cognitive core (~1B params), why RL is terrible ("sucking supervision through a straw"), LLM judges being gamed, silent model collapse, why coding agents failed on nanochat, the autonomy slider, AGI blending into 2% GDP growth, loss of control, the evolution…
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What the file says
# Andrej Karpathy: "AGI is still a decade away" (Dwarkesh Podcast) Source: Dwarkesh Podcast episode "Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away", published 2025-10-17, 2:25:14. Host Dwarkesh Patel, guest Andrej Karpathy. Episode page: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-karpathy. Audio (deep links use `#t=<seconds>`): https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/176425744/3127b612a1604474d2b28ab4e9b658f4.mp3 Transcribed locally with Whisper. Speakers aren't labeled in the transcript and were attributed from context. Claims are Karpathy's unless marked "Dwarkesh". Sponsor reads sit at ~38:37–40:00, ~1:05:08–1:06:30 and ~1:31:31–1:32:50. **Date-sensitive:** model names, nanochat and "a year ago" comparisons reflect October 2025. ## Core ideas 1. **It's the decade of agents, not the year.** The bar for an agent is an intern you'd hire. Today's agents lack intelligence, multimodality, computer use and **continual learning**. Karpathy's estimate of ~10 years comes from 15 years of watching predictions fail. → [01](segments/01-decade-of-agents-ghosts-not-animals.md) 2. **"We're not building animals. We're building ghosts."** Animals ship with …
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How to install
mdr add michalstrnadel/source-to-skill/karpathy-agi-decade-away@sha256:8dce208712ad38eeThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261026.0e37020, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
michalstrnadel/source-to-skill · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-26 · branch main
API
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