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title: "Karpathy's LLM Wiki concept, in one read"
url: https://mdfy.app/T7ZGdpOm
updated: 2026-05-14T17:52:48.410Z
source: "mdfy.app"
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# Karpathy's LLM Wiki concept, in one read

## Source

Andrej Karpathy, Twitter thread (2024). Topic: a personal LLM-readable wiki — one place a person writes their knowledge, the LLM reads it instead of building memory by inference.

## Core argument

> The most reliable AI memory is the one the human authored. Anything inferred from a chat transcript is lossy; anything written deliberately is durable.

This frames "memory" as a *curation problem*, not a *retrieval problem*. Most existing AI memory systems (Mem.ai, ChatGPT memory beta) treat it as the latter.

## Where Karpathy's vision stops

Single unified wiki. One person, one wiki. The structure is whatever the user makes inside that wiki.

## Where mdfy goes further

Three composable scopes instead of one: doc, bundle, hub. The same URL primitive scales from a one-note share to a project context to a full knowledge graph. Karpathy's single-wiki model can't deliver per-project context without folder discipline; mdfy's bundle model is *built* for it.

But mdfy and Karpathy's vision share the load-bearing claim: **the human stays the author**. The AI reads what was written; it doesn't try to infer memory from chat.

## Quote worth keeping

> The wiki you wrote yesterday is the context the AI gets today. The AI shouldn't be reconstructing your beliefs from session transcripts.

That's the philosophy. mdfy is one shape of the implementation.