State-of-the-art AI models will tell you to walk to a car wash 50 meters away because the distance is measurable, but they fail to understand the contextual constraint that you need a car to wash your car, revealing that AI is brilliant at what can be measured but lacks signal for context-driven reasoning.

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Unidentified Speaker — Stop Prompting Claude. Use Karpathy's Method Instead. [7zZy1QTvokM]

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I want to go to a car wash to wash my car, and it's 50 m away. Should I drive or should I walk? And state-of-the-art models today will tell you to walk because it's so close.

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Stop Prompting Claude. Use Karpathy's Method Instead.Austin Marchese
Created: 8/13/2026, 9:47:36 AM

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