SMRTR AINov 10, 2025Less Wrong

Andrej Karpathy on LLM cognitive deficits

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Andrej Karpathy explains that current AI coding tools excel at boilerplate tasks but struggle with unique, intellectually demanding code that requires precise understanding of custom implementations. He argues that LLMs have significant cognitive deficits when handling novel code structures, which suggests longer timelines for AI automating advanced AI research and development.

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