What Karpathy's Autoresearch Unlocked for Me

I'm not a data scientist. I've trained a few models before — simple classification problems, with AI writing the Python and me running the iterations. It worked. I got confident. Then a friend asked for help with something harder. Three Weeks at 0.58 The problem involved predicting an outcome from a mix of CRM data and call recordings. Not trivial, but not exotic either. Quick primer on AUC — the metric I'll use throughout. Imagine your model looks at two random people: one where the answer is y