Andrej Karpathy

The most-cited person in these records moved inside a frontier lab. The nature of his public writing may change from here on

He himself puts forward a successor term to vibe coding, moving the discourse from giving up on quality to responsibility for supervision

The coiner of the term publicly narrowed its scope. His own rebuttal to stretching vibe coding to cover production development

A rare case of a lab veteran publicly pushing timelines back. The phrase decade of agents became the standard quote for pushing back on the hype

Brought frontier-model training down from a secret to a reproducible recipe. The culmination of the nanoGPT and llm.c lineage

A contemporaneous record that pins down the generational handover from prompt engineering

Extends the 2017 Software 2.0 frame to natural-language programming, and proposes a human review loop, rather than full automation, as a design principle

A case of a free lecture made by an individual serving as the de facto shared textbook of the industry

The word that defined software discourse in 2025. Collins Dictionary named it its 2025 Word of the Year and added it to the dictionary

Gave a name to the gap between benchmark scores and reliability in real use. Salesforce adopted it as a formal research agenda and built the SIMPLE benchmark, and Sundar Pichai riffed on it as AJI

A case of a frontier-lab researcher declaring education an independent business

Spread the frame of seeing the LLM not as a model but as an OS kernel, which became the shared metaphor for later discussions of agents, tool calling and context management

A one-liner that defined natural-language prompting as programming. It later became the slogan of prompt engineering discourse. The original X post was not checked directly; this relies on Quote Investigator's documentat

Planted the generational vocabulary of Software 1.0/2.0 and became the prototype for every later Software N.0 discussion