

Karpathy's LLM Wiki - AI Build & Learn #8
Welcome to AI Build & Learn a weekly AI engineering stream where we pick a new topic and learn by building together.
This event is about building an LLM-maintained Wiki, a pattern from Andrej Karpathy for turning raw sources into a persistent, compounding knowledge base instead of re-retrieving from documents on every query.
We'll explore how this differs from traditional RAG, the three-layer stack (sources, wiki, schema), and the core operations (ingest, query, lint) that keep the wiki healthy as it grows.
Some things to look up to get started:
- Karpathy's LLM Wiki gist: https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f
- Community implementations linked in the gist comments (SwarmVault, Kompl, Link, OmegaWiki, etc.)
Reources
GitHub: https://github.com/sagecodes/ai-build-and-learn
Events Calendar: https://luma.com/ai-builders-and-learners
Slack (Discuss during the week): Flyte Slack Group
Hosted by Sage Elliott: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sageelliott/
In this stream
Intro to topic
Community Discussion
Practical examples
Community challenge (optional)
Try spending 30–90 minutes during the week learning or building something related to the topic, then share what you’re working on in Slack.
Note on Flyte / Union
You may see Flyte used in some demos. Flyte is an open-source AI orchestration platform maintained by Union (where I work) for building scalable, durable, and observable AI workflows. You do not need to use Flyte to participate.
Union: https://www.union.ai/
Flyte: https://flyte.org/
Drop a comment with ideas for future topics (agents, RAG, MLOps, robotics, frameworks, and more).