News · Models & labs · 19 July 2026
Andrej Karpathy just broke the entire premise of modern AI:
"Agents aren't magic. They're distillation at scale."
99.99% of your LLM's capacity is wasted on garbage data it never needed.
Small model + right tools + closed loop = terrifying capability.
In a 16-minute conversation, Karpathy reveals the full reasoning stack.
Worth more than any $500 AI course you've seen this year.
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