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Because an individual is an expert in at most one thing, an LLM's broad shallow expertise lets them do things they could not do before, whereas an organisation only gets better at what it already did.

Drawn from what Andrej Karpathy said

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What Andrej Karpathy actually said

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    Andrej Karpathy 7 Apr 2025

    In contrast, an individual will usually only be an expert in at most one thing, so the broad quasi-expertise offered by the LLM fundamentally allows them to do things they couldn't do before.

    Power to the people: How LLMs flip the script on technology diffusionkarpathy.bearblog.dev

First recorded here 7 Apr 2025 · How quotes work

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