LLM Wiki: Karpathy’s 3-Layer Pattern That Replaces RAG (2026 Guide)

LLM Wiki: Karpathy's 3-Layer Pattern That Replaces RAG (2026 Guide)

Last updated: April 2026 Karpathy’s LLM Wiki is a 3-layer architecture — raw sources, LLM-compiled markdown pages, and a schema file — that replaces stateless RAG with a persistent, self-maintaining knowledge base. Instead of retrieving and re-synthesizing documents on every query, the LLM “compiles” them once into cross-referenced wiki pages, then reads from the compiled … Read more