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Andrej Karpathy's Knowledge Management Method: 5 Principles Behind His LLM Knowledge Base System Andrej Karpathy just shifted the way knowledge workers think about personal information systems. On April 3, 2026, the former Tesla AI Director and OpenAI founding member published "LLM Knowledge Bases"--a system where an LLM automatically builds, connects, and maintains a markdown wiki from raw sources. No RAG pipeline. No vector database. Just structured markdown files navigated by an index and summaries ( GitHub Gist ). The system currently runs about 100 documents totaling 400,000 words. Karpathy's core claim is striking: "A large fraction of my recent token throughput is going less into manipulating code, and more into manipulating knowledge." That represents the latest stage in a progression from vibe coding (2025) to agentic engineering (early 2026) to knowledge manipulation (April 2026) ( The New Stack ). But this didn't appear out of nowhere. Karp...