microgpt
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6recommend
0warn against
Feb 14, 2026first mention
Jul 25, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“the whole point of NanoGPT is that it’s distilling all of his wisdom and taste”
“I found it very helpful to look at karpathy's microgpt”
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“Definitely Andrej Kapathy's 250 line code of Micro GPT.”
“this is a lot easier to wrap my head around”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“optimizing microgpt for speed”
“My hobby project this week (0) has been hyper-optimizing microgpt”
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All comments 10
“the whole point of NanoGPT is that it’s distilling all of his wisdom and taste”
“I found it very helpful to look at karpathy's microgpt”
“Definitely Andrej Kapathy's 250 line code of Micro GPT.”
“How does this compare to Andrej Karpathy's microgpt”
“Great stuff!”
“2x the number of lines of code (~400L), 10x the speed”
“Karpathy published microGPT.py on Feb 11”
“The linked inspiration has a good blog post of microgpt implemented in python.”
“this is a lot easier to wrap my head around”
“Will try that micro got which seems interesting.”