Get the Karpathy 4-Rule Playbook

Andrej Karpathy named 3 things Claude gets wrong every single time — wrong assumptions, overcomplication, and orthogonal edits. The community took those observations, distilled them into a single 80-line CLAUDE.md file, and that one file just crossed 143,000 GitHub stars in five weeks (4.8× growth from 30K on April 14). This is the operator playbook: PAGE 01 THE 3 PITFALLS CLAUDE GETS WRONG — wrong assumptions (treats your prompt as the complete spec, then invents the missing details), overcomplication (asked for one function, ships a class hierarchy + factory + 3 layers of abstraction), orthogonal edits (touches code that has nothing to do with the goal — renames variables, reformats unrelated blocks); PAGE 02 THE 4 RULES VERBATIM — RULE 1 Think Before Coding (identify assumptions and constraints first, ask if anything is unclear before generating code), RULE 2 Simplicity First (smallest implementation that solves the goal, no premature abstraction), RULE 3 Surgical Changes (edit only the code required by the goal, do not refactor or reformat orthogonal code), RULE 4 Goal-Driven Execution (every change maps to one stated objective, if it doesn't, don't make it); PAGE 03 INSTALL IN 30 SECONDS — the exact curl command that drops CLAUDE.md into any project, before/after receipts (47 files → 3, 312 lines → 21, 3 unrelated refactors → 0), and the star-growth chart that explains why 143K devs pinned this file. Full credit to the multica-ai community and Andrej Karpathy's public LLM coding observations.

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