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The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

L2 · PractitionerOpinion & AnalysisHacker News· 10/11/2026

Helps practitioners understand why AI perceptions vary so widely and where they fit in the adoption curve.

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Andrej Karpathy argues the LLM capability gap is widening dramatically, with only 0.2% of people experiencing frontier models' transformative impact on complex projects.

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