Andrej Karpathy just said the people who don't use LLMs are already losing.
he spent 4 minutes explaining why smart people are still going to fall behind.
Not only the people who refuse AI, but also those who think signing up for Claude counts as using it.
here's what it looks like for most people right now:
> ask Claude to rewrite an email
> ask Claude to summarize something
> close the tab
that's not using AI. that's a $20/month autocomplete subscription.
Karpathy's real point isn't that AI is powerful. everyone knows that by now.
his point is that the actual skill gap is building with it. and almost nobody is.
and here's the part nobody wants to hear: they're doing it with zero coding experience.
no Python. no APIs. no CS degree. just the right framework and the right prompts.
the article below covers how to build your first AI agent from scratch.
not theory. not "top 10 tools." an actual step-by-step system you can finish this weekend.
the model was never the bottleneck. knowing what to build with it is.