Karpathy's Highest-Reach Take of the Year: 'Stop Using AI to Write Code, Build a Second Brain With It' — 21 Million Views
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Karpathy's post arguing that the highest-leverage use of LLMs is constructing a personal knowledge base rather than generating code reached roughly 21 million views, making it his most-amplified single idea of 2026. Coming from the person whose Software 2.0 thesis defined how a generation thinks about ML systems, and who joined Anthropic's pretraining team in May, the take reads as a deliberate correction to the codegen-maximalist culture he helped create. Single-source amplification metric — treat the view count as approximate.