Andrej Karpathy has a name for why AI dominates coding and math but still fumbles basic tasks, jagged intelligence (Save…
Milk Road AI Twitter · Milk Road AI (@MilkRoadAI) · 2026-05-02
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Topics: jagged-intelligencellm-capabilitiesai-limitationscapability-unevenness
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- Andrej Karpathy coined the term 'jagged intelligence' to describe AI's uneven capability profile.
- LLMs exhibit enormous performance spikes in domains like coding and math while failing at tasks humans find trivial.
- AI capability does not scale smoothly with model size but produces an irregular, jagged profile across task types.
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The shape of what an LLM can do isn't a smooth curve that rises with model size, it's essentially a jagged profile, enormous spikes in certain...