@karpathy: Wow, this tweet went very viral! I wanted to share a possibly slightly improved version of the tweet in an "idea file".
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Andrej Karpathy shares thoughts on sharing ideas rather than code in the era of LLM agents, proposing an 'idea file' format where the concept itself is more valuable than specific implementations.
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Wow, this tweet went very viral! I wanted to share a possibly slightly improved version of the tweet in an “idea file”. The premise of the idea file is that in this era of LLM agents, there’s less need to share the specific code or app—you just share the idea, and then the…
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