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단원 — Karpathy 4 원칙 (Think · Simplicity · Surgical · Goal-Driven)

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요약

entity/karpathy 의 2026-01-26 viral thread 를 entity/forrest-chang 가 65 줄 CLAUDE.md 로 정립. 4 원칙 = LLM 코딩 실수 방지 매니페스토. case/karpathy-109k-stars 의 지적 본체.

#	영문 원문	대응 원칙
1	"The models make wrong assumptions on your behalf and just run along with them without checking."	Think Before Coding
2	"overcomplicate code and APIs, bloat abstractions"	Simplicity First
3	"They still sometimes change/remove comments and code they don't sufficiently understand."	Surgical Changes
4	"LLMs are exceptionally good at looping until they meet specific goals."	Goal-Driven Execution

표어: "Don't assume. Don't hide confusion. Surface tradeoffs."

표어: "Minimum code that solves the problem. Nothing speculative."

표어: "Touch only what you must. Clean up only your own mess."

표어: "Define success criteria. Loop until verified."

Karpathy 핵심: "Don't tell it what to do, give it success criteria and let them work."

"These guidelines bias toward caution over speed. For trivial tasks, use judgment."

★ Karpathy 의 3 LLM 실패 모드 (영문 직접 인용)

#	영문 원문	대응 원칙
1	"The models make wrong assumptions on your behalf and just run along with them without checking."	Think Before Coding
2	"overcomplicate code and APIs, bloat abstractions"	Simplicity First
3	"They still sometimes change/remove comments and code they don't sufficiently understand."	Surgical Changes
4	"LLMs are exceptionally good at looping until they meet specific goals."	Goal-Driven Execution

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