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Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy): Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel. - Na

L3 · BuilderOpinion & Analysis@karpathy· 10/11/2026

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Andrej Karpathy argues there's a widening capability gap in LLM understanding, with only 0.2% of people seeing transformative professional benefits while most remain casual users.

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Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel. - Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come https://t.co/79xGhQdf1n

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