The Road to Agentic Notes
Karpathy published his LLM-powered personal knowledge system. The post went viral, and for good reason. 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… — Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) April 2, 2026 The basic idea is that an LLM builds and maintains a wiki for you. You drop in source material. The LLM reads it, extracts what matters, and integrates it into an existing network of markdown files. It updates pages when new information contradicts old claims. It cross-references concepts across everything you have ever added. ...