Karpathy's viral analogy

Karpathy summarized the ultimate relationship between the human, the AI, and the files with his famous analogy:

"Obsidian is the IDE; the LLM is the programmer; the wiki is the codebase."

He highlighted that traditional AI chat windows are "stateless" and fleeting, forcing you to reconstruct context every time you start a session. In contrast, an LLM Wiki compiles your unstructured raw inputs (diaries, PDFs, articles, research notes) into a clean, interlinked Markdown codebase ([slug]) that grows more intelligent and interconnected over time.