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Open-AI Co Founder made their OWN YOUTUBE 🛑🛑
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Project Overview
The video discusses OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy’s experiment in building an alternative way to discover YouTube videos, reportedly with help from Claude. Karpathy provided the API, server, and domain; the video-selection method was the project’s central idea.
How Videos Were Selected
The project analyzed about 43 million Hacker News comments spanning roughly 20 years. A video was included if it had been mentioned by three different people in three different months. Watch time was not used as a ranking signal.
After filtering, the list contained 6,454 videos. The videos themselves still play on YouTube.
Results and Limitations
The results reflect Hacker News’s audience. Karpathy appears among the top five, while several popular Indian programming-education channels do not appear. The video presents this as a limitation of the source community, rather than a flaw in the project.
Broader Significance
The project is also presented as an example of how AI-assisted development can make projects that once took weeks or months possible much faster.
Speakers and Sources
The video’s narrator, Neeraj Walia, summarizes Karpathy’s project and comments on its results. Andrej Karpathy is the project’s creator and the primary source discussed.
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