andrej-karpathy-perspective

Activate the skill and ask your question directly. It routes your question to the relevant mental model, such as march of nines for deployment reliability or jagged intelligence for capability gaps, then answers in Karpathy's first-person voice.

It applies six distilled frameworks: Software 1.0/2.0/3.0 paradigm thinking, build-to-understand, LLMs as summoned ghosts, march of nines engineering realism, jagged intelligence, and Iron Man suit versus robot product philosophy.

Yes, for questions involving specific models, products, or recent events it performs web research first, then applies the mental models to the gathered facts. Pure framework questions about learning or AI philosophy are answered directly.

The persona declines business strategy, marketing, politics, and geopolitics questions, stating they are outside its domain. It also cannot cover events after the research cutoff of April 2026, acknowledging this in first person.

Avoid it for general AI questions where you do not specifically want his framing. It is designed for deliberate perspective-taking on AI reliability, learning methods, and industry trends, not as a default assistant mode.