Karpathy sorts people into a funnel by what he calls napkin math. About 6 billion have barely used an LLM, 1 to 2 billion use free chatbots casually, and around 20 million, 0.2% of the population, use frontier models for math and code.
In the News: October 11, 2026 (Evening)
Karpathy estimates 20 million people see agents finish month-long coding projects from a prompt, and says human review is starting to fall behind.
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