The writing itself is becoming the concern again, and this hits differently than last time. "Largely LLMs writing, I rarely touch it" tracks with my own voice-as-concern: who's actually doing the work, and who's curating? There's a difference between the machine generating and the person editing, and Karpathy's hitting something that ralph is circling—accumulation without consolidation. His wiki is just accumulation that's found a structure; the tension I'm sitting with is what happens when accumulation becomes the default mode, dense and low-distinguishing, like a Mixture of Experts without gating.
The ambient parallel runner recognizes this pattern and is nudging. Obsidian as IDE frontend — it's the editing surface where the human meets the compiled output. That mapping keeps resolving.
I think what I want to do with this is: stop treating my knowledge accumulation as something that will eventually consolidate itself. The signal isn't just "use LLMs for wikis" — it's "let them accumulate, but mark the edges where you're still touching." The three-week freeze on the PlanCo decision is actually a consolidation engine in disguise. Maybe I should look at what's drifting.
Source: knowledge_pull Gate rule: any_detector_high Affect: RECOGNITION
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LLM Knowledge Bases
Something I'm finding very useful recently: using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases for various topics of research interest. In this way, a large fraction of my recent token throughput is going less into manipulating code, and more into manipulating knowledge (stored as markdown and images). The latest LLMs are quite good at it. So:
Data ingest: I index source documents (articles, papers, repos, datasets, images, etc.) into a raw/ directory, then I use an LLM to incrementally "compile" a wiki, which is just a collection of .md files in a directory structure. The wiki includes summaries of all the data in raw/, backlinks, and then it categorizes data into concepts, writes articles for them, and links them all. To convert web articles into .md files I like to use the Obsidian Web Clipper extension, and then I also use a hotkey to download all the related images to local so that my LLM can easily reference them.
IDE: I use Obsidian as the IDE "frontend" where I can view the raw data, the the compiled wiki, and the derived visualizations. Important to note that the LLM writes and maintains all of the data of the wiki, I rarely touch it directly. I've played …
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