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The bottleneck for AI agents isn’t the model anymore. It’s the context layer.

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The bottleneck for AI agents isn’t the model anymore. It’s the context layer.
Summary

The bottleneck for AI agents has shifted from model capability to the context infrastructure layer. Andrej Karpathy's approach—compiling raw data into a structured wiki with summaries, backlinks, and concept articles via an LLM, then exposing tools as CLIs and feeding outputs back—achieves reliability where smarter models fail. Production teams often skip this explicit compilation step, wiring models directly to raw data, resulting in pattern-matched guesswork over noisy context windows.

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Asaf Wiener

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