Karpathy’s Pelican
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#2perfect benchmark to burn more tokens - convenient
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#3I'd rather have them battle on the topic "Who builds a better Google Wave for LLM chats" to explore the space of how AI studios could be.
"Getting Started with Google Wave": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKUAqNGVwX0
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#4I wish there was a timeline where I never ever had to see the pelican SVG test ever again.
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#5I'd rather have them battle on the topic "Who builds a better Google Wave for LLM chats" to explore the space of how AI studios could be. "Getting Started with Google Wave": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKUAqNGVwX0
i remember this failing, but this product looks pretty useful in 2026
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#6It's difficult to think in exponentials.
But this demonstrates we're a couple orders of magnitude away from generating 1:1 hyper-personalized entertainment and media for individuals, rather than the masses.
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#7I'm sad that Andrej Karpathy went from being one of the most reasonable, trusted, and credible voices in AI to peddling marketing slop for Anthropic.
8 months ago, he was (very reasonably) claiming that reliable agents are at least a decade away, but this now goes against the interest of his employer, so the narrative has been changed.
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#8I worked with an LLM to build a ~3D animation of the Back to the Future delorean Time Machine as a way to spice up the hero on a docs page.
That took a fair amount of custom tuning and I had to create a tuning view to get some of the behaviors right.
But it was enough fun that I generalized it to take in ~any scene description from a film. It goes out and gets more detailed descriptions and film stills if available but also takes custom stills if you provide them.
My test scene was the Gauntlet scene from Apocalypto. It is low fidelity but does a pretty amazing sequence with somewhat believable physics of the javelins etc.
Here is the docs page with the vertical takeoff / 88 miles an hour time travel: https://contextify.sh/docs
I can share some of the Apocalypto bit if anyone is interested.
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#9I'd rather have them battle on the topic "Who builds a better Google Wave for LLM chats" to explore the space of how AI studios could be. "Getting Started with Google Wave": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKUAqNGVwX0
i remember this failing, but this product looks pretty useful in 2026
It looked pretty useful in 2009. Failing to push it was baffling then too.
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#10It's difficult to think in exponentials. But this demonstrates we're a couple orders of magnitude away from generating 1:1 hyper-personalized entertainment and media for individuals, rather than the masses.
I kind of like a sense of community even if it means losing out on personalisation.