What I Read This Week by Trevor Houghton

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Share the Idea File, Not the App

Andrej Karpathy @karpathy ♥ 26.7k

Karpathy's follow-up carries the sharper point: in the agent era you stop shipping code and start shipping the idea, kept deliberately vague, and the other person's agent builds it for their needs. It's a small reframe with big implications for how software gets distributed. The knowledge-base spec is the worked example.

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Wow, this tweet went very viral!

I wanted share a possibly slightly improved version of the tweet in an "idea file". The idea of the idea file is that in this era of LLM agents, there is less of a point/need of sharing the specific code/app, you just share the idea, then the other person's agent customizes & builds it for your specific needs.

So here's the idea in a gist format: https://t.co/NlAfEJjtJV

You can give this to your agent and it can build you your own LLM wiki and guide you on how to use it etc. It's intentionally kept a little bit abstract/vague because there are so many directions to take this in. And ofc, people can adjust the idea or contribute their own in the Discussion which is cool.

**Quoted @karpathy:** LLM Knowledge Bases

Something I'm finding very useful recently: using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases for various topics of research interest. In this way, a large fraction of my recent token throughput is going less into manipulating code, and more into manipulating

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