{"podcast":{"title":"No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups","slug":"no-priors-artificial-intelligence-technology-startups-5990363","podcast_index_feed_id":5990363,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/nopriors","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/803e0244-9d0f-11ed-923a-4bb54bf77468/image/NO_PRIORS_ALBUM_and_PROFILE_PIC-01.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Conviction","episode_count":164,"summary":"At this moment of inflection in technology, co-hosts Elad Gil and Sarah Guo talk to the world's leading AI engineers, researchers and founders about the biggest questions: How far away is AGI? What markets are at risk for disruption? How will commerce, culture, and society change? What’s happening in state-of-the-art in research? “No Priors” is your guide to the AI revolution. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com. Sarah Guo is a startup investor and the founder of Conviction, an investment firm purpose-built to serve intelligent software, or \"Software 3.0\" companies. She spent nearly a decade incubating and investing at venture firm Greylock Partners. Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur and a startup investor. He was co-founder of Color Health, Mixer Labs (which was acquired by Twitter). He has invested in over 40 companies now worth $1B or more each, and is also author of the High Growth Handbook.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/no-priors-artificial-intelligence-technology-startups-5990363"},"episode":{"title":"Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI","slug":"andrej-karpathy-on-code-agents-autoresearch-and-the-loopy-era-of-ai","published_at":"2026-03-20T13:41:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/no-priors-artificial-intelligence-technology-startups-5990363/andrej-karpathy-on-code-agents-autoresearch-and-the-loopy-era-of-ai","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/no-priors-artificial-intelligence-technology-startups-5990363","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/PDP8703207384.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/PDP8703207384.mp3","summary":"What happens when AI agents can design experiments, collect data, and improve — without a human in the loop? Andrej Karpathy joins Sarah Guo on the state of models, the future of engineering and education, thinking about impact on jobs, and his project AutoResearch: where agents close the loop on a piece of AI research (experimentation, training, and optimization, autonomously). 00:00 Andrej Karpathy Introduction 02:55 What Capability Limits Remain? 06:15 What Mastery of Coding Agents Looks Like 11:16 Second Order Effects of Natural Language Coding 15:51 Why AutoResearch 22:45 Relevant Skills in the AI Era 28:25 Model Speciation 32:30 Building More Collaboration Surfaces for Humans and AI 37:28 Analysis of Jobs Market Data 48:25 Open vs. Closed Source Models 53:51 Autonomous Robotics 1:00:59 MicroGPT and Agentic Education 1:05:40 Conclusion","meta_description":"What happens when AI agents can design experiments, collect data, and improve — without a human in the loop? Andrej Karpathy joins Sarah Guo on the state…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3991,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/no-priors-artificial-intelligence-technology-startups-5990363/episodes/andrej-karpathy-on-code-agents-autoresearch-and-the-loopy-era-of-ai/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/no-priors-artificial-intelligence-technology-startups-5990363/andrej-karpathy-on-code-agents-autoresearch-and-the-loopy-era-of-ai.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}