karpathy-principles
The models make wrong assumptions on your behalf and just run along with them without checking. They don't manage their confusion, don't seek clarifications, don't surface inconsistencies, don't present tradeoffs, don't push back when they should.
-- Andrej Karpathy, on agentic coding failure modes
What This Is
A four-principle contract for reducing the most common LLM coding pitfalls. Compact entry-point. Each principle has a deeper-dive skill in night-market; this skill is the index, not the encyclopedia.
Derivation: distilled by Forrest Chang
(forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills, MIT) from
Karpathy's observations. Full attribution in
references/source-attribution.md.
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