Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
"The problems are tractable, but they're still difficult”
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"The problems are tractable, but they're still difficult”
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
Continual learning is a huge bottleneck
The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English
“Preface to the highest stakes negotiations in history.”
The economy will literally double every year afterwards
“We're nowhere near the ceiling.”
And implications for RLVR progress
"That's why I'm sending this message of urgency"
Scaling reinforcement learning, tracing circuits, and the path to fully autonomous agents