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Improving system reliability through successive additional nines takes a constant amount of work for each nine.

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

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“And then I think basically what takes the long amount of time and the way to think about it is that it's a margin of nines and every single nine is a constant amount of work.”
“So every single nine is the same amount of work.”
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