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Andrej Karpathy says AI models perform well with Rust because much Rust code is available online, making them useful to him given his limited Rust knowledge.

Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025

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“Because there's a ton of rust code out there that models are actually pretty good at it. I happen to not know that much about it. So models are very useful there.”

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