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The speaker argues that micrograd's 100 lines of Python capture the essential concepts needed to understand neural-network training, while the remaining work concerns efficiency.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“these hundred lines of Python are everything you need to understand how neural networks train.”
“Everything else is just efficiency.”
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