Andrej Karpathy Says It Will Take a Decade Before AI Agents Actually Work
On 20 October 2025, Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI, told the Dwarkesh Podcast that although 2025 is dubbed the “year of the agent”, truly capable AI agents are still years away and may take about ten years to mature He highlighted limitations such as lack of general intelligence, multimodal competence, continual learning, and safe autonomy. For users and business leaders this serves as a caution: avoid over-hyping what agents can do today. The significance: helps ground