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Quotations tagged andrejkarpathy in 2024

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[on GitHub Copilot] It’s like insisting to walk when you can take a bike. It gets the hard things wrong but all the easy things right, very helpful and much faster. You have to learn what it can and can’t do.

Andrej Karpathy # 11th April 2024, 1:27 am

When I first published the micrograd repo, it got some traction on GitHub but then somewhat stagnated and it didn’t seem that people cared much. [...] When I made the video that built it and walked through it, it suddenly almost 100X’d the overall interest and engagement with that exact same piece of code.

[...] you might be leaving somewhere 10-100X of the potential of that exact same piece of work on the table just because you haven’t made it sufficiently accessible.

Andrej Karpathy # 21st February 2024, 9:26 pm