According to Andrej Karpathy, an X poll he referenced showed roughly half of respondents reporting they mostly use agent‑mode coding, contrary to his expectation of 50 percent tab‑complete, 30 percent manual, 20 percent agent, source: Andrej Karpathy on X, Oct 3, 2025, https://x.com/karpathy/status/1974106507034964111; poll link https://x.com/karpathy/status/1973892769359056997. He states his own workflow is primarily tab completion and he turns it off when not useful, using agents mainly for boilerplate or unfamiliar stacks with substantial review and edits, source: Andrej Karpathy on X, Oct 3, 2025, https://x.com/karpathy/status/1974106507034964111. He warns that when tasks are deep, tangled, or off the data manifold, LLMs produce bloated code with subtle bugs, concluding agent mode is not ready to write about half of professional code, source: Andrej Karpathy on X, Oct 3, 2025, https://x.com/karpathy/status/1974106507034964111. He asked for a serious organization to rerun the poll, underscoring uncertainty around actual adoption rates, source: Andrej Karpathy on X, Oct 3, 2025, https://x.com/karpathy/status/1974106507034964111. There was no mention of cryptocurrencies or blockchain in his comments, source: Andrej Karpathy on X, Oct 3, 2025, https://x.com/karpathy/status/1974106507034964111.