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Andrej Karpathy recommends rebuilding the repository from scratch, using it as a reference but not copy-pasting, as a way to learn from it.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“I would probably put it on the right monitor,”
“like if you have two monitors, you put it on the right.”
“and you want to build it from scratch.”
“You build it from start.”
“You're not allowed to copy-paste.”
“You're allowed to reference.”
“You're not allowed to copy-paste.”
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