The Defection
May 22, 2026
Andrej Karpathy just signed with Anthropic; Raven: 'Stop. THE Karpathy?'; Duck is hype — 'It's the AI Avengers, who needs the fantasy draft now'; Chicken: 'Wait — can he leave the company he founded? Twice?'; Dove calls it a basketball trade — mid-season blockbuster; Sparrow: 'He brings his playbook. And his fifty-page essays'; Parrot reproduced his nanoGPT lecture in a 7B last night, linked it, and he starred her repo; Raven: 'She's drafting them now.'