karpathy-understanding-first
bylearnprompt· 25 skills
Apply the Karpathy understanding-first principle — verify what AI built, own your understanding, map the jagged capability landscape of LLMs. Use this skill when the user has used AI to build something and needs to verify it, wants to audit their own understanding, needs to know where LLMs are reliable vs unreliable, or says "verify this", "do I actually understand this", "what can I trust the AI on", "jagged capabilities", "understanding not outsourcing". Based on 46k-like quote post.
How to install karpathy-understanding-first?
learnprompt/andrej-karpathy-skills/karpathy-understanding-first
$npx -y skills add learnprompt/andrej-karpathy-skills --skill karpathy-understanding-firstInstalls into the current project.
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Run `npx skills use "https://github.com/learnprompt/andrej-karpathy-skills" --skill "learnprompt/andrej-karpathy-skills/karpathy-understanding-first"` and follow the generated skill instructions now. Read its complete output, redirecting it to a temporary file first if necessary. Resolve relative paths from the supporting-files directory it provides.
Use the skills in "https://github.com/learnprompt/andrej-karpathy-skills" that are relevant to the current task. Run `npx skills add "https://github.com/learnprompt/andrej-karpathy-skills"` and select the relevant skills, then follow their instructions.
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