Karpathy: forcing agents to work is AI's biggest mistake — but critics say that's 18 months stale
jasonkneen · x · 2026-11-08
Andrej Karpathy says AI's biggest mistake is forcing agents to work instead of mastering "harness engineering" for models first — a mistake he claims OpenAI made in 2016 at the cost of 5 years. Jason Kneen mocked the take as "more like 18 months ago", arguing harness-first engineering is already mainstream, reigniting the autonomy-vs-harness debate.
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