Andrej Karpathy, Google and Garry Tan agree Markdown is the answer, but they're not solving the same problem

Andrej Karpathy, Google and Garry Tan agree Markdown is the answer, but they're not solving the same problem

In April, Andrej Karpathy published a GitHub gist file called “LLM Wiki,” a brief text document designed to help one build a personal knowledge base using LLMs. It’s based on the premise that an AI agent will keep what it knows as linked Markdown files it can read and rewrite, because a language model does not get bored maintaining cross-references and can touch fifteen files in a single pass. It was only a few thousand words with no product att…