Tesla's former AI director Andrej Karpathy says he suffers from 'anxiety'

2026-03-24 - 06:49

Andrej Karpathy, the former Tesla AI chief, grapples with anxiety over budgeted AI tokens left unused—a feeling reminiscent of dormant GPUs from his academic days. Now, he fluidly alternates between AI platforms like Codex and Claude to ensure token efficiency, viewing this as a crucial performance indicator.