Karpathy lecture: AI engineering is LLM→Prompt→Agent→Loop→Graph, not just prompts
leslysandra · x · 2026-08-17
Andrej Karpathy's 1-hour Stanford lecture on AI engineering is being called one of the clearest explanations of how AI systems actually work. The lecture lays out a progression: 10% → LLM, 30% → Prompt, 50% → Agent, 70% → Loop, 100% → Graph.
The key takeaway: AI engineering isn't just about writing better prompts — it's about building systems around models, giving them context, memory, tools, feedback loops, and data flows. As the lecture puts it: "Delete everything, keep Graph." Worth watching if you're building AI agents.
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