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type: "commonplace"
title: "Andrej Karpathy on the present moment"
description: ""
author: "Trey Causey"
date: 2026-10-16
slug: "2026-10-16-x-com-karpathy-status-2109361546505966046-s-20"
url: "https://www.treycausey.com/commonplace/2026-10-16-x-com-karpathy-status-2109361546505966046-s-20/"
tags: []
sourceTitle: "Andrej Karpathy on X: \"Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now less \"two groups of people speaking past each other\" and more a sharp funnel. - Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come\" / X"
sourceUrl: "https://x.com/karpathy/status/2109361546505966046?s=20"
---

> So this is the weirdness of the moment. The general public has mostly not interacted with these systems. When they have, it looks like a derpy chatbot. The majority of professionals still see only a modest uplift. And a small sliver of professionals are experiencing the vertigo of the curve going vertical. And it is all happening at the same time.


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Andrej Karpathy breaks down the disconnect between what a small group of people see inside frontier labs, a bigger set of people working ambitiously with cutting edge models, and then a much larger group of people who rarely / never use AI beyond a chatbot. 

<a href="https://www.treycausey.com/blog/posts/ai-overhangs-and-dying-stars/">Once again, you're probably not taking overhangs seriously enough.</A>

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