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Inspired by Karpathy's LLM wiki pattern, a personal knowledge base that gives me and my agents up-to-date context on the AI landscape. Automatically compiled from my Readwise saves.

Last updated Jun 20, 2026

Agent ProficiencyThe skill of effectively managing and directing AI agents

Business Moats in AIAs AI commoditizes everything "hard to do," the only durable moats are things "hard to get"

LLM Knowledge BasesUsing LLMs to compile and maintain personal knowledge bases from raw sources

Model QuantizationQuantization reduces LLM memory footprint by storing weights as small integers instead of full-precision floats

Physical AI SystemsA set of frontier AI systems extending beyond language into the physical world

Synthetic PersonasLLMs prompted to take on personas produce average, not diverse, responses

The Future of Knowledge WorkAI is commoditizing knowledge

World ModelsAn alternative AI paradigm to LLMs

Agent HarnessThe harness is everything that wraps a model to make it an agent

Agentic EngineeringThe emerging discipline of designing, optimizing, and orchestrating AI agents

AI Evals

AI-Native Product DevelopmentThe shift from traditional PRDs and sprint planning to rapid prototyping with AI agents

Claude Code Skill FrameworksFour major skill frameworks

Voice AI Infrastructure

AI Safety & InterpretabilityThe effort to understand and align AI models

Claude Mythos PreviewAnthropic's most capable model as of April 2026

Frontier ModelsThe frontier model landscape (2026) is defined by rapid competitive rotation among Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, inference-time multi-agent scaling as an alternative to ever-larger single models, a narrowing gap between frontier and open-weight local models, and a paradigm shift where the binding constraint on progress is high-quality training data

AGI Definitions"AGI" is contested and often misused. On the most prominent definitions

AI CareersThe AI job market is bifurcating into "big AI" and "small AI," but the highest-leverage roles are emerging at the intersection of building and strategy

AI Organization DesignBlock (Jack Dorsey) proposes replacing corporate hierarchy with an "intelligence layer"

AI RegulationThe US is developing a fragmented patchwork of 40+ state AI laws while the Trump administration pushes for federal preemption

AI Startup DistributionCode is commoditized

AI User PerspectivesAnthropic's 81K-person global survey (Dec 2025) found users primarily want AI for professional excellence and life management

Geopolitics & World Order

Services-as-SoftwareThe next trillion-dollar company will sell the work, not the tool

Venture Capital AccessPrivate markets are democratizing. USVC (AngelList) is the first indexed, low-fee vehicle giving retail investors access to top-tier venture capital

Vertical AIDomain-specific AI applications are finding product-market fit faster than horizontal AI, especially in legal, healthcare, customer service, and coding. Harvey ($0→$200M ARR in 36 months) and Sierra ($0→$165M ARR in 26 months) are the benchmark case studies

Y Combinator AI Thesis (2026)YC's 2026 bet areas span AI-native agencies, "Cursor for PM," AI hedge funds, government AI tools, spatial reasoning models, and reindustrialized manufacturing

Andrej KarpathyAI researcher and educator whose recent focus has shifted from model internals to knowledge management

Dario AmodeiCEO of Anthropic and one of the most prominent voices on both AI's transformative potential and its existential risks

DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson)Creator of Ruby on Rails and co-founder of 37signals. Did a public 180-turn on AI coding tools over the 2025 winter break

Peter SteinbergerProlific builder of AI developer tools and creator of OpenClaw. Ex-PSPDFKit founder who pivoted to "polyagentmorous" development

Writing CraftSpecificity is the single most powerful lever in writing