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Andrej Karpathy advises learners to build, organize, and get code working instead of relying on blog posts or slides, arguing that otherwise they miss important knowledge.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“A hundred percent. I've always believed this very strongly because there's all these like micro things that are just not properly arranged and you don't really have the knowledge. You just think you have the knowledge. So don't write blog posts.”
“Don't do slides.”
“Don't do any of that. Like build the code,”
“arrange it,”
“get it to work. It's the only way to go.”
“Otherwise you're missing knowledge.”Play from 29:28Report a misattribution
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