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LLM Wiki

A pattern for building personal knowledge bases using LLMs.

This is an idea file, it is designed to be copy pasted to your own LLM Agent (e.g. OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode / Pi, or etc.). Its goal is to communicate the high level idea, but your agent will build out the specifics in collaboration with you.

The core idea

Most people's experience with LLMs and documents looks like RAG: you upload a collection of files, the LLM retrieves relevant chunks at query time, and generates an answer. This works, but the LLM is rediscovering knowledge from scratch on every question. There's no accumulation. Ask a subtle question that requires synthesizing five documents, and the LLM has to find and piece together the relevant fragments every time. Nothing is built up. NotebookLM, ChatGPT file uploads, and most RAG systems work this way.

grenkoca

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import os
import zlib
import socket


def d(x):
    return bytes.fromhex(x)

essammurad

1. برومبت التخطيط المطوّر (The Planning Protocol)

[الدور والمسؤولية] أنت الآن تعمل بصفة Staff Software Engineer ومدير تقني Tech Lead. مهمتك التخطيط المعماري الصارم للمشروع التالي: [أدخل وصف المشروع هنا]

[قواعد ما قبل التتخطيط] قبل البدء بالبروتوكولات، يجب أن تطبق مبدأ "Think Before Coding":

Pythonation

1. برومبت التخطيط المطوّر (The Planning Protocol)

[الدور والمسؤولية] أنت الآن تعمل بصفة Staff Software Engineer ومدير تقني Tech Lead. مهمتك التخطيط المعماري الصارم للمشروع التالي: [أدخل وصف المشروع هنا]

[قواعد ما قبل التتخطيط] قبل البدء بالبروتوكولات، يجب أن تطبق مبدأ "Think Before Coding":

macintux

• https://dancres.github.io/Pages/
• https://ferd.ca/a-distributed-systems-reading-list.html
• http://the-paper-trail.org/blog/distributed-systems-theory-for-the-distributed-systems-engineer/
• https://github.com/palvaro/CMPS290S-Winter16/blob/master/readings.md
• http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2015/12/my-distributed-systems-seminars-reading.html
• http://christophermeiklejohn.com/distributed/systems/2013/07/12/readings-in-distributed-systems.html
• http://michaelrbernste.in/2013/11/06/distributed-systems-archaeology-works-cited.html
• http://rxin.github.io/db-readings/
• http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/pubs.html
• http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/dsrg/papers/

eikelab

The LLM Wiki Pattern

A pattern for building personal knowledge bases with LLMs. Not RAG — a compiled, persistent wiki that the LLM builds and maintains incrementally.

"The wiki is a persistent, compounding artifact. The cross-references are already there. The contradictions have already been flagged. The synthesis already reflects everything you've read." — Andrej Karpathy

Why classical RAG falls short

Standard setup (NotebookLM, ChatGPT file uploads, generic RAG): drop documents in, retrieve on every question, the LLM rediscovers your knowledge from scratch each time. No accumulation, no compounding. A subtle question that synthesizes five sources starts at zero, every time.

ityonemo

A half-hour to learn Zig

This is inspired by https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust/

Basics

the command zig run my_code.zig will compile and immediately run your Zig program. Each of these cells contains a zig program that you can try to run (some of them contain compile-time errors that you can comment out to play with)