Just 0.2% have seen agents complete complex projects, per Karpathy's estimates
bigdickzillionaire · reddit · 2026-10-14
Citing Andrej Karpathy's approximations: 80% of people have no access to or interest in AI, 20% use free chatbots casually, and only 0.2% have had agents complete complex projects that once took weeks or months. The author argues the AI divide is different from past tech shifts — there's no 50-year adjustment window this time, and access to the technology won't equal access to the opportunities it created. A two-tier society is being built while most people haven't realized there's a race.
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