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simonw on Oct 13, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy

Yeah, if your goal is "build the tightest 8,000 line implementation of training an LLM from scratch, with a focus on both conciseness and educational value" I don't think it's particularly surprising that Claude/Codex weren't much help.

fragmede on Oct 14, 2025 [–]

Now to wait for Sonnet 5 and GPT-6, and ask them to build that, and see what they come up with.

Tepix on Oct 14, 2025 | [–]

Why would you expect an improvement?

bjord on Oct 14, 2025 | | [–]

because they'll be trained on karpathy's implementation

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