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Second brain with Claude Code

Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki idea, explained plainly, and the exact setup I use: an Obsidian vault that Claude Code maintains for you, a knowledge graph on top, and the prompts that pull business insights out of it.

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SECONDBRAIN
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6 min
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In April 2026 Andrej Karpathy published a short GitHub gist called "LLM Wiki". No code, just an idea you paste into your AI agent. It changed how I use AI.

The problem he's solving: most of us use AI like a search box. You upload files, ask a question, and the model digs through raw documents from scratch every single time. Nothing builds up. His fix is to have the AI write and maintain a wiki for you, a folder of linked markdown notes that gets better every time you add something.

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  1. The idea in plain English
  2. What you need
  3. Set it up
  4. The prompts I actually use
  5. Add a knowledge graph with graphify
  6. How I'd start

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