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Comment by fg137

12 hours ago

How does this compare to Andrej Karpathy's microgpt (https://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/) or minGPT (https://github.com/karpathy/minGPT)?

Who cares how it compares, it's not a product it's a cool project

  • Even cool projects can learn from others. Maybe they missed something that could benefit the project, or made some interesting technical choice that gives a different result.

    For the readers/learners, it's useful to understand the differences so we know what details matter, and which are just stylistic choices.

    This isn't art; it's science & engineering.

    • But it isn't the OP's responsibility to compare their project to all other projects. The GP could themselves perform the comparison and post their thoughts instead of asking an open ended question.

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  • Microgpt isn’t a product either. Are you saying that differences between cool projects aren’t worth thinking and conversing about?

  • > Who cares how it compares

    Well, the person who asked the question, for one. I'm sure they're not the only one. Best not to assume why people are asking though, so you can save time by not writing irrelevant comments.