Summary

A compiled knowledge system transforms raw source material into maintained, structured markdown pages that are easier to query and evolve than raw documents alone.

Key points

• Query-time-only retrieval forces repeated rediscovery.
• Compiled knowledge preserves prior synthesis work.
• Cross-links, comparisons, and contradiction notes create compound value over time.
• The main risk is not complexity. It is drift.

Implications

For agentic development work, this model is useful because the same questions recur:

• Which model stack should we use?
• Which runtime pattern is safer?
• What changed in the toolchain?
• Where are the real bottlenecks?

A compiled wiki lets those answers improve instead of resetting.

Open questions

• What is the minimum review process that keeps quality high?
• Which pages should require source refresh before reuse?

Sources

• wiki/sources/karpathy-llm-wiki-gist.md