The Demo-to-Product Gap? The March of nines? In AI, the last 0.001% takes 99.999% of the time. We need a name for it, and given how much the Andrej & Dwarkesh interview has been cited, it’s only fair to call it “The Karpathy Principle”. Here is a 30 second YouTube Clip for reference.
Onboarding engineers is hard. You need to set up your development environment, build context, navigate the codebase, navigate the organization, understand the system, the product — and the list goes on. I used to believe that the best way to onboard an engineer on day one is to make sure they: Get their development environment set up Make a pull request to the codebase Merge and deploy to production You get an immediate hit of dopamine and experience the end-to-end flow of shipping a feature or fixing a bug. ...