karpathy's CLAUDE.md hit #1 on github trending.
220,000 stars. most devs still haven't read it.
it's 65 lines.
it took AI coding accuracy from 65% to 94%.
the 4 rules inside:
→ think before coding
state your assumptions. ask when unsure. never guess.
→ simplicity first
write the minimum code that solves the problem.
no abstractions nobody asked for.
→ surgical changes
don't touch code unrelated to the request.
every changed line must trace back to what was asked.
→ goal-driven execution
turn vague instructions into verifiable success criteria
before writing a single line.
that's it.
65 lines. 4 rules. 94% accuracy.
save this before everyone else does.
Andrej Karpathy spent 4 minutes in an interview explaining a single idea
about how most people haven’t even started learning how to use AI
and everyone paying $20/month for a subscription.. that's not really using Claude at all
his point is that the real skill gap is the ability to build with AI
he identified 4 behaviors that break Claude Code and put them all into one file
a developer expanded it into 21 rules and published it - 82,000 stars and #1 on GitHub Trending
coding accuracy jumped from 65% to 94%
here's what these 21 rules actually are and why most developers using Claude every day have never configured them
the full breakdown is covered in the article below 👇
Main question now that Semis are within the kill zone is whether the bad breadth leads to massive rejection for all that is about to break out or if we see rotation from the leadership into the many groups that are starting to peak out.
We are approaching peak euphoria in semis.
Qullamaggie on How Long to Go From 9k to 1 Million
“How did you go from 5K to 1 million? That’s for losers. I think I did it in 8 years. No, no, no. You know what, I’ll check. I went from 5K — let’s see, from 2013. So my accounts were actually 9K on May 20, 2013. That was the turning point for my trading. May happened. I was down like 50% on the year, and that was the turning point.
So in May 2013 I had 90K in my trading accounts. Let’s see when I hit 1 million. January 2018, I hit 1.4 million. So somewhere in December 2017 my account reached 1 million. It took about three and a half years to get from 9K to 1 million.
If you have a small account, guys, it’s not hard to make a few hundred percent per year. It’s not hard if you have a small account. Really, you can make it if you’re a short-term swing trader. You can make most years probably easily a couple hundred percent. And that’s the thing — you won’t have a small account after a few years. That’s the beautiful part.”