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Andrej Karpathy finds that difficulty explaining something reveals that he does not fully understand it.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“I realize if I don't really understand something,”
“I can't explain it, you know, and I'm trying and I'm like, actually,”
“actually, I don't understand this.”Play from 2:24:22Report a misattribution
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