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During approximately five years at Tesla, the speaker estimates that the team achieved perhaps two or three additional reliability nines through iteration, with further nines still needed.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“And while I was at Tesla for, was it five years or so,”
“I think we went through maybe three nines or two nines. I don't know what it is,”
“you know, but like multiple nines of iteration,”
“there's still more nines to go.”Play from 1:45:29Report a misattribution
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