Karpathy-level fatigue

In the first week of January 2026, I have finally caught up with Andrej Karpathy: I am overwhelmed.

I have crossed a threshold that I don't know how to uncross: I am spending more than 5 hours daily trying to keep up with AI and biotech-techbio news and science. And that's just NEWS, and does not include the time and attention it takes to give various new models or tools a spin. I thought maybe I am getting old (but I am reverse-aging so it can't be) or runaway FOMO (that's definitely a possibility).

And then Andrej Karpathy tells us he has never felt so behind: welcome to my world, buddy!

But, seriously, things are not exactly slowing down, so how do you deal with the accelerating onslaught of new stuff? It feels like irrelevance is just one day away. Even Andrej, 10 years ago, felt compelled to create the arXiv-sanity-presever to filter out the noise. No longer an option. Noise has grown 1,000-fold, but the signal has grown too, if only 100-fold.

I don't want to be a Red Queen, running faster and faster just to stay in place. What's the solution?