Andrej Karpathy Skills review: a single 189k-star CLAUDE.md

Short summary

andrej-karpathy-skills is a 189k-star GitHub repo packaging four AI coding principles—think before coding, simplicity first, surgical changes, and goal-driven execution—into a single CLAUDE.md file under 70 lines. The rules are distilled from Andrej Karpathy's observations about how models fail when writing code. It is not authored by Karpathy himself but by a third party who credits the source, and it ships as both a CLAUDE.md and a packaged skill with a Cursor port.

• •189k-star repo distills Karpathy's AI coding failure observations into 4 rules in one file
• •Principles: think before coding, simplicity first, surgical changes, goal-driven execution
• •Not authored by Karpathy; made by multica-ai (Jiayuan Zhang) with clear attribution

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