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Andrej Karpathy says he was rewriting a tokenizer in Rust and is less proficient in Rust because he is relatively new to the language.

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

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“And then the other part is when I was rewriting the tokenizer in Rust.”
“I'm actually not as good at Rust because I'm fairly new to Rust.”
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