Karpathy gave Claude Opus 5 the first paragraph of The Lord of the Rings, a 1M token budget (about $10) and asked for a three.js render. In his words: "Opus went off for ~2 hours and wrote 5500 lines of code that (procedurally) rendered the…
In the News: August 2, 2026 (Evening)
Karpathy publishes a two-hour, ten-dollar agent run and says the agent could not audit its own output.
Evening edition
Machine-readable
Download Markdown
Story
Karpathy runs an agent for two hours, then names what it could not do
Read story →
Story
Thoughtworks' CTO says the next bottleneck is human attention
Laycock's argument is a correction of her own prior position, stated as one: "I kept assuming it would simply move to the next phase of software delivery. I was wrong." Where it lands: "AI didn't change what great software looks like.
Story
Ars Technica asks who is answerable when the agent breaks in
A caveat in this item's own words: the article could not be reopened independently. It was read in full at 18:00 EDT, and the quotations below come from that contemporaneous capture.