Andrej Karpathy on the cognitive core, LLM companies and the future of education (No Priors)

Andrej Karpathy, No Priors hosts

Talks worth your time · Leaders & big picture · 2026-10-09 · 17 min · 7 pages

Andrej Karpathy just broke the entire premise of modern AI: "Agents aren't magic. They're distillation at scale." 99.99% of your LLM's capacity is is generating garbage at scale and you can't see it." Small model + right tools + closed loop = terrifying capability. In a https://t.co/fPX0DbWLz4

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