For employees worried that AI agents could take their jobs, one of the field’s leading founders says the technology is still far from perfect. Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI said it’s not the “year of agents”—and while he uses AI agent tools like Claude and Codex, they’re still way behind the work of humans.
“They just don’t work. They don’t have enough intelligence, they’re not multimodal enough, they can’t do computer use and all this stuff,” he added. “They don’t have continual learning. You can’t just tell them something and they’ll remember it.”
“You should think of it almost like an employee or an intern that you would hire to work with you,” he said.
“I want it to make fewer assumptions and ask/collaborate with me when not sure about something. I want to learn along the way and become better as a programmer, not just get served mountains of code that I’m told works.”
Today, AI agents are being implemented for customer service, IT and administrative tasks, but many tech companies are actually scaling back their automation plans.
