Entity — Andrej Karpathy

AI researcher, former Senior Director of AI at Tesla and former OpenAI member. Originator of the LLM Wiki pattern.

Relation to This Wiki

On 2026-04-04 he published the LLM Wiki gist — an “idea document” describing a pattern for using an LLM to incrementally build and maintain a persistent personal knowledge-base wiki. This gist is the first source of Joe-wiki (see 2026-karpathy-llm-wiki) and the origin of this wiki’s operating model.

Core Contributions (for this wiki)

• Proposed that the wiki is a compounding artifact, distinct from RAG.
• Defined the three-layer architecture (raw / wiki / schema) and the three operations (ingest / query / lint).
• Advocated the practice framing of Obsidian as the IDE, the LLM as the programmer, and the wiki as the codebase (see obsidian).

Related

• llm-wiki-pattern — the pattern he proposed
• 2026-karpathy-llm-wiki — summary of the original gist