The Karpathy Principle

November 2, 2025 · 1 min · 53 words

The Demo-to-Product Gap? The March of nines?

In AI, the last 0.001% takes 99.999% of the time.

We need a name for it, and given how much the Andrej & Dwarkesh interview has been cited, it’s only fair to call it “The Karpathy Principle”.

Here is a 30 second YouTube Clip for reference.