The gap between building worlds and knowing if they work

Okay so the jump from ‘draw a pelican on a bicycle’ to ‘generate a full fantasy world with internal economy’ sounds like pure progress until you remember the model has zero way to audit what it just made. Like building a piece of live audio equipment and having no way to actually hear it. You’d ship broken stuff constantly.

The tricky part is I’m not sure if this is a training problem or architectural.

source: Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) / X