Andrej Karpathy
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The field's teacher — OpenAI founding member, Tesla Autopilot lead, YouTube professor.
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Karpathy led Tesla's Autopilot vision team, twice worked at OpenAI, and educates millions with from-scratch GPT lectures; his coinages ('vibe coding,' 'software 2.0') name eras. His Eureka Labs pursues AI-native education.
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