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Karpathy observed that AI tends to over-complicate code, inflating abstraction layers and leaving dead code uncleaned, potentially turning a 100-line solution into 1,000 lines.
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7/2/2026
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A Deep Dive into Karpathy's AI Coding Rules: Why a 65-Line Markdown File Earned 16k Stars
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