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Re: Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)

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Post by nicbou »

mplappert wrote: post #31
portly wrote: post #20

I don't understand the point of automating note taking. It never worked for me to copy paste text into my notes and now you can 100x that? The whole point of taking notes for me is to read a source critically, fit it in my mental model, and then document that. Then sometimes I look it up for the details. But for me the shaping of the mental model is what counts

I think there‘s a serious issue with people using AI to do an immense amount of busywork and then never look at it again. Colossal waste.

It's such a promising technology, but it seems like the primary use case is to drown everything in noise.

Re: Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

zby wrote: post #62

Reviewed: https://zby.github.io/commonplace/agent-memory-systems/revie... It is a third llm wiki on front page in 24 hours! Obviously it is a hot topic. I have my own horse in that race - so I might not be objective - but I've compiled a wishlist for these system: https://zby.github.io/commonplace/notes/designing-agent-memo... I wish there was a chance for collaboration - everybody coding their own system seems like…

I mean honestly this stuff is now in roll your own territory now. Run QMD on an obsidian vault and that's like 80% of the way there and you can probably do that in < 2 hours

Re: Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)

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Post by genewitch »

GistNoesis wrote: post #68

Have you seen this one ? https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1sv7fvc/im_a_nurs...

i wanted to take a picture of my PDR - Physician's Desk Reference tomes, but i gave them to my wife to use at work. But, the publisher stopped publishing the PDR on paper and went to "app-only" and requires payment, now. Used to be you could go to those library "used book sales" or university used library book sales and get ones a couple years out of date.

but no longer.

I didn't even have to look at the (reddit op linked) site or an archive to know that it was going to be wrong, dangerous, a liability, and bordering on unethical.

Re: Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)

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Post by skybrian »

simsla wrote: post #39
mplappert wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think there‘s a serious issue with people using AI to do an immense amount of busywork and then never look at it again. Colossal waste.

Everyone is writing. Nobody is reading.

The LLM's do quite a lot of reading. The question is what to feed them. (What counts as good context?)

Re: Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)

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Post by adamsmark »

portly wrote: post #20

I don't understand the point of automating note taking. It never worked for me to copy paste text into my notes and now you can 100x that? The whole point of taking notes for me is to read a source critically, fit it in my mental model, and then document that. Then sometimes I look it up for the details. But for me the shaping of the mental model is what counts

I use my Openclaw setup to record notes I don't ever want to remember the details of. Here are some examples:

Storing my Health Insurance's Member ID, RxBin and other data. Recording the serial number of a product I will be calling technical support for. Organizing files to be more logical and deduplicating or consolidating as needed.

Whenever I want this info, I'll just ask my LLM to pull it up.

Re: Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)

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Post by johntash »

adamsmark wrote: post #115
portly wrote: post #20

I don't understand the point of automating note taking. It never worked for me to copy paste text into my notes and now you can 100x that? The whole point of taking notes for me is to read a source critically, fit it in my mental model, and then document that. Then sometimes I look it up for the details. But for me the shaping of the mental model is what counts

I use my Openclaw setup to record notes I don't ever want to remember the details of. Here are some examples: Storing my Health Insurance's Member ID, RxBin and other data. Recording the serial number of a product I will be calling technical support for. Organizing files to be more logical and deduplicating or consolidating as needed. Whenever I want this info, I'll just ask my LLM to pull it up.

Do you use local models for these, or are you okay with giving private details to anthropic/openai?

(that's one of my biggest hurdles for really adopting any useful assistant type of agent)

Re: Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)

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Post by johntash »

How do you keep llms from writing _too much_? I've built a few similar tools and systems, and they're all way too easy for the llm to just keep documenting things to the point the whole system is a mess and becomes less useful the bigger it gets.

One example experiment I had was seeing if I could get a llm to build its own knowledge wiki where I would paste a few links and have it go do some research on whatever the subject was, then distill what it finds into specific wiki pages with links to other pages or the source refs. It looked good until you read the actual data.

This was a few years ago though, so maybe it's worth trying again with something like opus 4.7.

Re: Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)

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Post by najmuzzaman »

410298 wrote: post #65

I no longer can tell if this is satire or not: https://wuphf.team/ It looks like gastown. Using AI is like children playing with a dollhouse. If it is satire, well done.

had fun while building this and love "The Office". fwiw i used to be a stand up comic and did lots of satire, but this one is not a shell/slop project to take on the craziness of slop agents being shipped as world-changing (while all they did was asked AI to write smart md files).

there is real substance in the product itself and something that i use myself for work. feel free to ask any questions.

Re: Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)

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Post by najmuzzaman »

hansmayer wrote: post #28

Couldn't you instruct your LLM to make the starting dir configurable?

yes, and we should expose it. today the wiki location is hardcoded to ~/.wuphf/wiki/. making it a config field is a quick change. just filed an issue: https://github.com/nex-crm/wuphf/issues/310
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