His dismissal of smaller and local models suggests he underestimates their improvement potential. Give phi4 a run and see what I mean.
Of all the things you could suggest, a lack of understanding is not one that can be pinned on Karpathy. He does know his technical stuff.
Sure, but maybe suggesting that the person who literally spent countless hours educating others on how to build small models locally from scratch, is lacking knowledge about local small models is going a bit beyond "people have blind spots".