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  • I’ve always needed a “win condition”. I need to know it’s possible, even if only someday at the end of my life, to be confident and secure in the feeling that I’ve done a good job. I’m fond of triumph, of trumpet fanfares and celebrations, and I need to believe that under some conditions, if I did certain sufficiently awesome things, I’d have earned a triumphant celebration. A glorious state, free of worry, completely exultant. And, as a more immediately practical matter, I need conditions under which I’d let myself completely physically relax — constant straining literally hurts my back.
    Self-Help Tactics That Are Working For Me — LessWrong
  • But who is actually going to build the LLM GUI? In this world view, nano banana is a first early hint of what that might look like. And importantly, one notable aspect of it is that it's not just about the image generation itself, it's about the joint capability coming from text generation, image generation and world knowledge, all tangled up in the model weights.
    2025 LLM Year in Review | karpathy
  • I've vibe coded entire ephemeral apps just to find a single bug because why not - code is suddenly free, ephemeral, malleable, discardable after single use. Vibe coding will terraform software and alter job descriptions.
    2025 LLM Year in Review | karpathy
  • Related to all this is my general apathy and loss of trust in benchmarks in 2025. The core issue is that benchmarks are almost by construction verifiable environments and are therefore immediately susceptible to RLVR and weaker forms of it via synthetic data generation. In the typical benchmaxxing process, teams in LLM labs inevitably construct environments adjacent to little pockets of the embedding space occupied by benchmarks and grow jaggies to cover them. Training on the test set is a new art form.
    2025 LLM Year in Review | karpathy
  • The subtlety with the Ugh Field is that the flinch occurs before you start to consciously think about how to deal with the Unhappy Thing, meaning that you never deal with it,
    Ugh fields — LessWrong