Andrej Karpathy says 99% of AI users miss 7 basics. Full breakdown.
Andrej Karpathy — OpenAI co-founder, former Tesla AI head — argues the bottleneck for most AI users isn't the model or the prompt, but the lack of a system around it. This breakdown covers his 7 practical rules: provide full context instead of magic prompts; curate a proper CLAUDE.md; adopt a /raw, /wiki, and config three-layer memory; permanently save strong outputs as reference pages; maintain index.md and log.md for long projects; treat AI as a super-intern with no taste, working in small verified steps; and add one line to render research as navigable HTML. Aimed at engineers stuck in prompt tweaking loops, these habits take an afternoon to set up and compound fast.