With concerns rising about the impact of agentic AI on the labor market, OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy thinks agents are nowhere near ready to begin stealing jobs.

In a recent appearance on the Dwarkesh Podcast , Karpathy described the output of AI agents as “slop” and suggested the latest iteration of the technology isn’t quite living up to the hype.

“They’re cognitively lacking and it’s just not working,” he told host Dwarkesh Patel. “It will take about a decade to work through all of those issues.”

Karpathy added that, in their current form, AI agents “just don’t work” and aren’t quite the silver bullet for productivity and efficiency that major industry providers have framed them as.

“I feel like the industry is making too big of a jump and is trying to pretend like this

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