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Karpathy’s Pelican

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August 2, 2026

2 min read

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70/100

Summary

We're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. "create an svg of pelican on a bicycle". As one idea to generalize it, I was interested what Opus 5 would do if I gave it the first paragraph of the Lord of the Rings, a 1M token budget (~$10) and asked for three js render of it. Opus went off for ~2 hours and wrote 5500 lines of code that (procedurally) rendered the story. It's...

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Community Sentiment

Mixed

Positives

It's incredible that we can generate entire games with just a few words — that's a huge leap in what AI can do, even if the results are lackluster.
Using LLMs for one-off tasks is fantastic; they can quickly produce software tailored to specific needs, which opens up new possibilities.

Concerns

These AI-generated games are painfully boring and lack the creativity that makes games fun — it's like watching paint dry.
LLMs currently have zero imagination and seem stuck in a loop of producing the same predictable content over and over.
We're entering an era of throwaway software, but that might mean sacrificing quality for convenience — is this really progress?