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karpathy-guidelines

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Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. Use when writing, reviewing, or refactoring code to avoid overcomplication, make surgical changes, surface assumptions, and define verifiable success criteria.

126 other projects use a version of this, 47 of them edited; 6 new projects in the last 4 weeks, against 5 the 4 before.

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Rising: 6 new projects took it in the last 4 weeks, 1.2× the 4 weeks before.thin data

Week of Sep 13: 1 new projectWeek of Sep 20: 2 new projectsWeek of Sep 27: 0 new projectsWeek of Oct 4: 2 new projectsWeek of Oct 11: 1 new projectWeek of Oct 18: 1 new projectWeek of Oct 25: 2 new projectsWeek of Nov 1: 2 new projects
Sep 2026Oct 2026Nov 2026
New projects taking a version of this file each week, over the 8 weeks our latest run read: only 11 in all, so this is a hint, not a trend.

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15 rules. 14 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.

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