The Karpathy naming law: do something, wait two years, he names it
ctjlewis · x · 2026-10-01
Developer ctjlewis jokes about an AI-culture pattern: you build something quietly, and two years later Karpathy coins the name for it — from "vibe coding" and "harness" (2023-2025) to "autoresearch" (2024-2026). The buzzwords that define a practice rarely come from its inventors, but from a top researcher's passing phrase.
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