Meet 'Dobby': The AI agent that could kill the app economy

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TAIPEI, TAIWAN - OCTOBER 24: Participants playing Dobby in Harry Potter series in the Trans March on October 24, 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan.
A human dressed up as Dobby the Elf from Harry Potter series during a trans march in Taipei, Taiwan.

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Andrej Karpathy says he's using his Jensen Huang hand-signed Nvidia chip system to power his Clawbot 'Dobby'

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hand-delivered the company's first DGX Station to OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy's lab

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The guy who coined vibe coding says AI is making programming 'unrecognizable'

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Andrej Karpathy wrote that AI had made software "nowhere near 'business as usual.'"

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Ex-Tesla AI head has seen a 'phase shift in software engineering' using Claude Code — and his manual skills slowly 'atrophy'

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Andrej Karpathy, a Tesla and OpenAI alum, wrote that he is "sheepishly" telling a coding agent what to write.

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The guy who coined 'vibe coding' now says he's never felt more behind as a programmer

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Former Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy.
Andrej Karpathy thinks Tesla is more than a car company.

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The computer scientist who coined 'vibe coding' says self-driving cars will 'terraform' outdoor spaces

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Former Tesla AI engineer Andrej Karpathy came up with phrase "vibe-coding."

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Vibe-coding is now an official word in the dictionary

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Therese Waetcher (not pictured) using vibe coding to improve her Shopify storefront.

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OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy says it will take a decade before AI agents actually work

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OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy is unimpressed with the state of AI agents.

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The 6 most exciting vibe coding startups at Y Combinator's Demo Day for its summer cohort

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Garry Tan, president and CEO of Y Combinator.

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The core crew that helped Sam Altman start OpenAI has dwindled from 10 to 2

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Elon Musk attending a joint meeting of Congress; OpenAI CEO Sam Altman walking in the US Capitol; OpenAI president Greg Brockman at the White House.
Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman were part of OpenAI's 11 founding members. Musk left the company's board in 2018.
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