← All IntelClip / EntertainmentOutsource thinking, not understanding
From Andrej Karpathy on Vibe Coding & Agentic Engineering (AI Ascent 2026) · ≈28:06
“you can outsource your thinking, but you can't outsource your understanding”
“I feel like I'm becoming a bottleneck of just even knowing what we're trying to build”
What’s in it
- A candid take on staying the bottleneck in AI-assisted work
- Why understanding can't be outsourced even as thinking is
- Using knowledge bases as synthetic-data prompts to gain insight
Clip transcript
into the next era of AI? Yeah. Uh there was a tweet that blew my mind recently, and I keep thinking about it like every other day. It was something along the lines of um you can outsource your thinking, but you can't outsource your understanding. And um I think that's really nicely put. I so yeah, because I still I'm still part of the system, and I still I still have to somehow information still has to make it into my brain, and I feel like I'm becoming a bottleneck of just even knowing what we're trying to build, why is it worth doing, uh how do I direct you know, how do I direct my my agents, and so on. So, I do still think that ultimately something has to direct the thinking and the processing, and so on. And um that's still kind of fundamentally constrained somehow by understanding. And this is one reason I also was very excited about all the all the knowledge bases because I feel like that's that's a way for me to process information. And anytime I see a different projection onto information, I always like feel like I gain insight. So, it's really just a lot of prompts for me to do synthetic data generation kind of over over some fixed data. Uh so, I I really enjoy uh
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