Building AI agents
that build software

On 4 April, Andrej Karpathy published a thousand-word gist with a new way of thinking about personal knowledge bases. Six weeks in, my vault audited six projects in two hours and found the same flaw in five of them. Three layers, one ownership rule, and why compiled notes get denser instead of bigger.

Someone praised my project. I got flattered, said yes without thinking, and a memecoin launched in its name. My project's credibility was the product. People may have lost money. Here is what I should have asked first.