---
type: source
title: "Idea Files for the LLM Era"
author: "Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy)"
url: "https://x.com/karpathy/status/2040470801506541998"
date: 2026-04-04
domain: ai-alignment
format: tweet
status: unprocessed
tags: [llm, agents, idea-file, knowledge-sharing, karpathy]
---

## Content

Wow, this tweet went very viral! I wanted share a possibly slightly improved version of the tweet in an 'idea file'. The idea of the idea file is that in this era of LLM agents, there is less of a point/need of sharing the specific code/app, you just share the idea, then the other person's agent customizes & builds it.

21,135 likes, 761 replies. Links to GitHub Gist "llm-wiki".

## Key Points

- In the LLM agent era, sharing ideas is more valuable than sharing specific code
- "Idea files" allow others' agents to customize and build implementations
- Follow-up to the viral LLM Knowledge Bases post
- Links to a GitHub Gist called "llm-wiki" as an example idea file