Karpathy: LLMs Want to Imitate, Not Succeed; Over 50% of AI Projects Misuse Agents
leslysandra · x · 2026-08-17
Andrej Karpathy revealed the nature of LLMs in a Stanford talk: "LLMs don't want to succeed. They want to imitate." He noted that >50% of AI projects fail because teams deploy agents where they should deploy assistants. Karpathy also walked through a full prompting stack that actually works.
The quoted content mentions Kimi Agent Swarm, which wires 300 agents into a single connected knowledge base, emphasizing that a pile of 300 answers is not knowledge—connectivity is key.
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