Karpathy Called AI Agents 'Slop', Author Says Take-off Began with Opus 4.5
scaling01 · x · 2026-08-07
Recalls Andrej Karpathy's sharp criticism of the current AI Agent ecosystem. Karpathy argued that models are not yet capable enough, yet the industry is overhyping their capabilities and pretending the output is amazing when it is actually 'slop'.
The author playfully notes that the real industry 'take-off' began just one month after Karpathy's remarks, with the release of Claude Opus 4.5.
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