Anthropic Engineer Andrej Karpathy:
"The biggest mistake in AI right now: people are forcing agents to work instead of mastering the model first.
We made that mistake in 2016 at OpenAI. It cost us 5 years."
What Karpathy actually means:
step 1 → stop forcing your agent to do everything. Understand the model underneath first.
step 2 → demos are easy; products take a decade. Self-driving proved it. If you skip the foundation, everything breaks.
step 3 → the agent is not the product. The foundation is. Build that—and agents emerge on their own.
"You're building agents right now. You're at the forefront. Not OpenAI. Not DeepMind. You."
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