Karpathy has demonstrated Cursor's agent flow on his YouTube channel and named it as part of his daily coding workflow on X.
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Andrej Karpathy's AI stack.
Founder; AI educator at Eureka Labs.
Tools Andrej Karpathy has publicly discussed or demonstrated using. Curated by Magpie's editorial team from podcasts, posts, and public stacks.
Andrej Karpathy is a founding member of OpenAI, former Senior Director of AI at Tesla, and now founder of Eureka Labs, an AI-native education company. He narrates his stack openly: long YouTube lectures and X threads where he names the exact tools he uses and how.
Tools Andrej has publicly discussed.
- Cursor4.9DirectCoding
- Claude4.7DirectLLM chatbot
Uses Anthropic's Claude as a primary chat assistant. Has compared its writing quality and reasoning to GPT-class models in public posts.
- ChatGPT4.9DirectLLM chatbot
Founding member of OpenAI; uses ChatGPT continuously and has published lectures reproducing GPT-2 from scratch on his YouTube channel.
- GitHub Copilot4.2DirectCoding
Has discussed GitHub Copilot's role in his coding workflow and the broader evolution of AI pair-programming on X.
- Perplexity3.7DirectLLM chatbot
Uses Perplexity for research-heavy queries; has named it as part of his daily AI stack.
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Direct: a video, podcast, post, or essay where Andrej names the tool. Implied: their company's public stack, repeated adjacency, or job ads. We don't list guesses. See how Magpie scores tools.
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