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This is a first-person record of how I took Karpathy's LLM-Wiki intuition and turned it, step by step, into the llm-skill project. I'll walk through: where I started, why I chose this particular layering, what each layer solves.


1. Starting point: what I actually took away from LLM-Wiki

Karpathy's LLM-Wiki throws out one core intuition:

Humans don't get smarter by memorizing "every conversation" — they distill conversations into entries, and next time a similar problem shows up, they look up the entry first.

This is a first-person record of how I took Karpathy's LLM-Wiki intuition and turned it, step by step, into the llm-skill project. I'll walk through: where I started, why I chose this particular layering, what each layer solves.


1. Starting point: what I actually took away from LLM-Wiki

Karpathy's LLM-Wiki throws out one core intuition:

Humans don't get smarter by memorizing "every conversation" — they distill conversations into entries, and next time a similar problem shows up, they look up the entry first.