One Finger on the Bias Slider

Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic. Genuinely excited for him and what is coming 👀 👀 👀.

Also a quiet personal loss.

For a few years his interviews were the cleanest independent signal I had on what was actually happening in AI. Not a vendor pitch or a lab roadmap — a thoughtful, well-calibrated read from someone with no skin in any single team’s game.

Now every interview could carry an Anthropic prior. That’s not a complaint about Andrej — it’s how affiliation works. You can be honest and still be downstream of where you’re standing.

The bigger pattern: as the labs absorb the people whose takes I most trusted, the supply of “no-team” voices in AI keeps thinning. Not gone. Just rarer than it was last year.

I’ll keep reading. With one finger on the bias slider.