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Andrej Karpathy says models repeatedly misunderstand his code because their training reflects common internet coding patterns that he did not adopt.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“they keep trying to, they keep misunderstanding the code because they have too much memory from all the typical ways of doing things on the internet that I just wasn't adopting.”Play from 31:30Report a misattribution
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