This post was originally published by [email protected] (Michael Nuñez) on Venture Beat.

This weekend, Andrej Karpathy, the former director of AI at Tesla and a founding member of OpenAI, decided he wanted to read a book. But he did not want to read it alone. He wanted to read it accompanied by a committee of artificial intelligences, each offering its own perspective, critiquing the others, and eventually synthesizing a final answer under the guidance of a “Chairman.”

To make this happen, Karpathy wrote what he called a “vibe code project” — a piece of software written quickly, largely by AI assistants, intended for fun rather than function. He posted the result, a repository