Build the Code, Not Slides

people will see this and then build a nextjs app karpathy just dropped the best career advice for engineers It always leads to a deeper understanding. It’s the only way to build. If I can’t build it, I don’t understand it. That’s a Feynman quote, I believe. I 100% have always believed this very strongly, because there are all these micro things that are just not properly arranged and you don’t really have the knowledge. You just think you have the knowledge. So don’t write blog posts, don’t do slides, don’t do any of that. Build the code, arrange it, get it to work. It’s the only way to go. Otherwise, you’re missing knowledge.

A screenshot of an X post jokes that people will immediately turn career advice from Karpathy into building a Next.js app. The quoted advice says engineers should build code instead of writing blog posts or making slides, poking fun at developers who respond to every idea by starting a new project. EN: A screenshot of an X post jokes that people will immediately turn career advice from Karpathy into building a Next.js app. The quoted advice says engineers should build code instead of writing blog posts or making slides, poking fun at developers who respond to every idea by starting a new project.

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