You Cannot Outsource Understanding

Andrej Karpathy, at Sequoia’s AI Ascent 2026:

You can outsource your thinking, but you cannot outsource your understanding.

AI can draft the code, the plan, the reasoning. What it cannot put into your head is knowing whether that output is right, why it matters, or how to steer the next step. Thinking can travel to a model; understanding has to stay with you.