"Design systems that run fully without your involvement Karpathy explains that the real value from AI tools only emerges when you architect things so you are not needed in the loop: "to get the most out of the tools that have become available now you have to remove yourself as the bottleneck. You can't be there to prompt the next thing." He applied this with his 'auto research' project, setting up an autonomous agent to run hyperparameter searches overnight so that "you put in just very few tokens just once in a while and a huge amount of stuff happens on my behalf." The decision-shaping implication: before starting any repeatable task, ask whether you can define the objective and metric clearly enough to hand it fully to a system. Source: Andrej Karpathy, Conviction, Episode with Andrej Karpathy"