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LLM Wiki

A pattern for building personal knowledge bases using LLMs.

This is an idea file, it is designed to be copy pasted to your own LLM Agent (e.g. OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode / Pi, or etc.). Its goal is to communicate the high level idea, but your agent will build out the specifics in collaboration with you.

The core idea

Most people's experience with LLMs and documents looks like RAG: you upload a collection of files, the LLM retrieves relevant chunks at query time, and generates an answer. This works, but the LLM is rediscovering knowledge from scratch on every question. There's no accumulation. Ask a subtle question that requires synthesizing five documents, and the LLM has to find and piece together the relevant fragments every time. Nothing is built up. NotebookLM, ChatGPT file uploads, and most RAG systems work this way.

@bessarabov
bessarabov / gist:674ea13c77fc8128f24b5e3f53b7f094
Last active September 2, 2025 01:50
One-liner to generate data shown in post 'At what time of day does famous programmers work?' — https://ivan.bessarabov.com/blog/famous-programmers-work-time
git log --author="Linus Torvalds" --date=iso | perl -nalE 'if (/^Date:\s+[\d-]{10}\s(\d{2})/) { say $1+0 }' | sort | uniq -c|perl -MList::Util=max -nalE '$h{$F[1]} = $F[0]; }{ $m = max values %h; foreach (0..23) { $h{$_} = 0 if not exists $h{$_} } foreach (sort {$a <=> $b } keys %h) { say sprintf "%02d - %4d %s", $_, $h{$_}, "*"x ($h{$_} / $m * 50); }'
@jasonrudolph
jasonrudolph / 00-about-search-api-examples.md
Last active April 28, 2026 00:09
5 entertaining things you can find with the GitHub Search API
@jrmoran
jrmoran / app.js
Created October 23, 2012 12:50
AngularJS - basic async request
var App = angular.module('App', []);
App.controller('TodoCtrl', function($scope, $http) {
$http.get('todos.json')
.then(function(res){
$scope.todos = res.data;
});
});