Andrej Karpathy
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Podcast Appearances
You want to make it useful almost immediately, and then you want to slowly deploy it and generalize it at scale.
At scale, hopefully.
And you want to set up your data engine, your improvement loops, the telemetry, the evaluation, the harness and everything.
And you want to improve the product over time incrementally and you're making revenue along the way.
That's extremely important because otherwise you cannot build these large undertakings just like don't make sense economically.
And also from the point of view of the team working on it, they need the dopamine along the way.
They're not just going to make a promise about this being useful forever.
This is going to change the world in 10 years when it works.
This is not where you want to be.
You want to be in a place like, I think, Autopilot is today, where it's offering increased safety and convenience of driving today.
People pay for it.
People like it.
People purchase it.
And then you also have the greater mission that you're working towards.
You're deploying this.
People like it.
People drive it.
People pay for it.
They care about it.
There's all these YouTube videos.