Karpathy's Map: The New Playbook for the AI Engineer

and How It Translates to the Business Engineer

This piece is inspired by a recent conversation that Andrej Karpathy had with Sarah Guo on No Priors, Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI.

Sometime in late 2024, something structural broke in how knowledge work operates. It didn’t announce itself.

There was no product launch, no press release. A threshold was crossed in what AI agents coul…