AI has crushed it since this post way beyond expectation. I made the same category of mistake all of AI was making, of thinking we have to discover and write the algorithm. You don't. You pretrain and then finetune a BIG neural network on lots of tasks and it just falls out. lol.
@karpathy
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LLMs Recognizing Functions Across Programming Libraries
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I've had medium success asking LLMs if a thing exists, it works out of the box for some of the more well-known things (e.g. both GPT 5.1 and Gemini 3 know about this function if you describe the tensor transformation in words). For more esoteric or new libraries (e.g. uv being a
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AI Detection in Student Homework Remains Impossible Task
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A number of people are talking about implications of AI to schools. I spoke about some of my thoughts to a school board earlier, some highlights: 1. You will never be able to detect the use of AI in homework. Full stop. All "detectors" of AI imo don't really work, can be
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Nano Banana: Refreshing Alternative to Corporate AI Branding
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I love that it's called Nano Banana instead of Google Imagine or some other corpo thing
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AI Generates Customized Weekly Workout Plan with Visual Illustrations
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I first asked it to create a workout plan as a separate text interaction up front – I gave it some of my preferences, goals, etc. and asked for a weekly plan. Then I asked to illustrate the week, and the individual days after.
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AI Creates Personalized Weekly Workout Plans and Printable Posters
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I asked it to create a personalized weekly workout plan, and then posters that I can print on the wall to remind me what exercises to do each day. Tuesday looks more intense because I asked for "more testosterone" :D.
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Intelligent Canvas: The GUI Evolution for LLM Interaction
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Imo this is along the lines of how talking to an LLM via text is like typing into a DOS Terminal and "GUI hasn't been invented yet" of some of my earlier posts. The GUI is an intelligent canvas.
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Gemini Nano Banana Pro Solves Exam Questions from Image
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Gemini Nano Banana Pro can solve exam questions *in* the exam page image. With doodles, diagrams, all that. ChatGPT thinks these solutions are all correct except Se_2P_2 should be "diselenium diphosphide" and a spelling mistake (should be "thiocyanic acid" not "thoicyanic") :O
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AI Generates Handwritten Math Solutions from Images
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I confirmed that it works. Prompt was the starting image and "Fix this math problem and generate updated image in my handwriting"
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Next AI Version Promises Trivial Extrapolation Capabilities
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I mean it's just incredible. Not because of this version but the next one. The extrapolation in your head is now trivial.