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+type: entity
+title: "Andrej Karpathy"
+entity_type: person
+role: "AI researcher, educator, founder"
+first_mentioned: "[[LLM Wiki Pattern]]"
+created: 2026-04-07
+updated: 2026-04-07
+tags:
+  - entity
+  - person
+  - ai-researcher
+status: mature
+related:
+  - "[[LLM Wiki Pattern]]"
+  - "[[Compounding Knowledge]]"
+  - "[[entities/_index]]"
+sources:
+---
+
+# Andrej Karpathy
+
+AI researcher and educator. Former Director of AI at Tesla, founding member of OpenAI. Known for deep learning education (Neural Networks: Zero to Hero series, micrograd, nanoGPT) and for publishing practical AI patterns.
+
+---
+
+## Key Contributions to This Wiki
+
+Karpathy originated the [[LLM Wiki Pattern]] — the idea of using LLMs to build and maintain a persistent, compounding knowledge base rather than re-deriving knowledge from raw documents on every query.
+
+He published the idea as an "idea file" — intentionally abstract, designed to be copy-pasted into a Claude Code or similar session and built out collaboratively. The claude-obsidian plugin is a production implementation of this pattern.
+
+His framing: "The wiki is a persistent, compounding artifact. The cross-references are already there. The contradictions have already been flagged. The synthesis already reflects everything you've read."
+
+---
+
+## Notable Quote
+
+"I thought that I had to reach for fancy RAG, but the LLM has been pretty good at auto-maintaining index files and brief summaries of all documents and reads all the important related data fairly easily at this small scale."
+
+---
+
+## Connections
+
+- [[LLM Wiki Pattern]] — his core contribution to knowledge management
+- [[Compounding Knowledge]] — the central insight he articulated
+- claude-obsidian plugin — this repo is a production implementation of his pattern