Karpathy joins Anthropic to run recursive self-improvement on Claude's pre-training — an execution plan for Clark's 60%+ bet on no-human AI R&D by 2028. Plus Claude Code's workflow tool swaps LLM orchestrators for deterministic code.

Source episodes:

- The REAL Reason Andrej Karpathy Joined Anthropic (Wes Roth) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGw2KKyXuYQ

- Why Agents Still Need Humans (The AI Daily Brief) https://anchor.fm/s/f7cac464/podcast/play/120462771/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-24%2F424784366-44100-2-9a2aff5f14639.mp3

- Anthropic Just Dropped the Feature Everyone Needed (RAmjad) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0gVowvMR-g