[nichochar]

I think Karpathy[1] summarized why he thinks this is the case quite well (as described he was himself hyping it up a bit much, but there are some foundational reasons why it's a very interesting experiment).

[1] https://x.com/karpathy/status/2017442712388309406

[majormajor]

"it's nothing new and it's a lot of scams and garbage, but it's just bigger than before, but I still think there will be something transformative there eventually"

Seems like a Rorschach test. If you think this sort of thing is gonna change the world in a good way: here's evidence of it getting to scale. If you think it's gonna be scams, garbage, and destruction: here's evidence of that.

[xvector]

Agents are many things but they are definitely not "scams" - if you think this you've probably stubbornly avoided using Claude Code etc.

[bakugo]

Karpathy is one of the biggest tech grifters of our time, so finding out that he's jumped on this grift train as well comes as no surprise.

Actually, hang on... yep, to absolutely nobody's surprise, Simon Willison has also hyped this up on his blog just yesterday. The entire grift gang is here, folks.

[coldtrait]

As a noob here I assumed these are legitimate folks with good intentions. Am I wrong?

[Nicholas_C]

Maybe it has always been this way but it seems like these days it's only a matter of time before anyone "authentic" (or at least seems authentic at first) turns into some type of grifter. If you have a big enough following there is too much money to be made not to grift.

[fzzzy]

How exactly has Simon been grifting?