Andrej Karpathy

And the difference in building out 231N and LLM 101N now is quite stark because I feel really empowered by the LLMs as they exist right now, but I'm very much in the loop.

So they're helping me build little materials.

I go much faster.

They're doing a lot of the boring stuff, et cetera.

So I feel like I'm developing the course much faster and those LLM infused in it, but it's not yet at a place where I can creatively create the content.

I'm still there to do that.

So I think the trickiness is always calibrating yourself to what exists.

Yeah.

So I think it would change over time.

So I think right now it would be hiring faculty to help work hand-in-hand with AI and a team of people probably to build state-of-the-art courses.

Yeah.

And then I think over time it can, maybe some of the TAs can actually become AIs because some of the TAs like, okay, you just take all the course materials and then I think you could serve a very good like automated TA for the student when they have more basic questions or something like that, right?

But I think you'll need faculty for the overall architecture of a course and making sure that it fits.

And so I kind of see a progression of how this will evolve and maybe at some future point, you know, I'm not even that useful and AI is doing most of the design much better than I could.

But I still think that that's going to take some time to play out.

No, I will hire faculty, I think, because there are domains in which I'm not an expert.

And I think that's the only way to offer the state-of-the-art experience for the student, ultimately.

So, yeah, I do expect that I would hire faculty, but I will probably stick around in AI for some time.

But I do have something, I think, more conventional in mind for the current capability, I think, than what people would probably anticipate.

And when I'm building Starfleet Academy, I do probably imagine a physical institution and maybe a tier below that, a digital offering that is not the state-of-the-art experience you would get when someone comes in physically full-time and we work through material from start to end and make sure you understand it.