Karpathy's Deleted Viral Post: 'AI May Replace White-Collar Jobs' — Shift From Builder Optimism to Displacement Warning

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Andrej Karpathy published and later deleted a viral post stating AI may replace white-collar jobs, a notable tonal shift from his usual builder-empowerment framing. The post appeared alongside his autoresearch work demonstrating AI agents running 700 ML experiments autonomously. Karpathy's credibility as both a practitioner and forecaster makes the displacement framing significant — when the person who coined 'vibe coding' pivots to warning about job replacement, it registers differently than typical AI doom discourse.