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andrej-karpathy-skills

GitHub Repo Pretty sure ยท Karpathy's core point isn't novel
https://github.com/forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills

A README-first repo selling Karpathy's observations as a Claude.md file, when the actual insight is just 'write better prompts.' Utility exists but oversells packaging.

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The four principles (think before coding, simplicity first, surgical changes, goal-driven execution) are solid engineering discipline โ€” not new, but worth systematizing. The actual CLAUDE.md file is probably 50 lines. The repo is 90% README padding that reformats Karpathy's tweet into tables and rhetoric. The 'plugin' installation is vaporware (Claude Code plugins aren't a thing; this is just a curl script). Signal comes from the fact that explicit prompting constraints *do* help LLMs behave ...

8003 stars 2026-02-16 70 days old

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