Andrej Karpathy observed on 2026-04-05 that comments on GitHub Gists feel markedly better: more helpful, insightful, and constructive, and with far less AI involvement. He speculates the difference may come from the Gist community, Markdown presentation, or weaker incentive structures, says he should gist more, and even nudges GitHub to consider competing with X.
Andrej Karpathy (post dated 2026-04-05) says GitHub Gist comments are noticeably more helpful, insightful, and constructive, with “a lot less AI.”
Surprised with how good the comments on github gists are. A lot more helpful, insightful, constructive, a lot less AI... Is it the user community? The markdown format? The (lack of) incentives?
Suddenly feeling like I should gist more.
@github consider competing with X (?)