Karpathy‑Style Programming Principles: Making AI‑Generated Code Viable for Real Engineering
The article introduces the open‑source project forrestchang/andrej‑karpathy‑skills, which encodes Andrej Karpathy’s four programming principles—Think Before Coding, Simplicity First, Surgical Changes, and Goal‑Driven Execution—to help AI coding assistants avoid hidden assumptions, over‑design, accidental deletions, and lack of verification, and provides installation guidance.
