Karpathy: only ~5,000 people have seen what AI can really do
sourdub · reddit · 2026-10-13
In a conversation with Box CEO Aaron Levie, Andrej Karpathy argued that only about 5,000 people have actually seen the full capability frontier of AI — the gap isn't the models, it's that most users lack the workflows to exploit them. Levie added an enterprise angle on why perceived AI capability lags so far behind reality.
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