Y Combinator. Karpathy's AI Startup School keynote frames LLMs as a new kind of computer — utility, fab, and OS rolled together — and argues for "partial autonomy" products with a human-controlled leash. It is the cleanest articulation of the stack-level mental model the article assumes: that you are picking inference vendors and tooling for a programmable substrate, not a chatbot.
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Karpathy's AI Startup School keynote frames LLMs as a new kind of computer — utility, fab, and OS rolled together — and argues for "partial autonomy" products with a human-controlled leash.
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