Karpathy says developers have “AI psychosis.” Everyone else is next.

I’m Matt Burns, Chief Content Officer at Insight Media Group. Each week I summarize the most important AI developments and explain what they mean for people and organizations using the technology. The thesis is simple: Workers who learn to use AI will define the next era of their industry, and this newsletter is designed to help you become one of them.

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy published an essay this week describing a real and growing perception gap around AI. He’s right that they exist. But the reason why it is currently the most widely used in the software field is not just because of reinforcement learning and verifiable reward functions.

Developers don’t feel the impact of AI first because coding is the only area where the tools work, not because programmers are particularly vulnerable. They come first because software is currently the place where frontier modeling capability, AI knowledge and deep expertise overlap most cleanly. This overlap is what makes AI…