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Introducing Tolaria! 💧 Today I am releasing a macOS desktop app for managing markdown knowledge bases, and helping both AI and humans operate them. It’s free and open source, and always will be. I have been working on it for three months, and I now use it to run my life and work. I personally have a massive workspace of 10,000 notes — the result of 6 years of Refactoring — which I now operate on Tolaria. Tolaria is the main collaboration surface with my AI agents: they create new notes there, connect them to what exists, and edit existing ones. Everything is easy to understand for them, because it’s just markdown files. In a way, it’s my implementation of @karpathy's LLM wiki. Tolaria is also the biggest experiment I have ever run about writing software with AI: • 2000 commits • 100K+ lines of code • 3000+ tests / 85% coverage • 9.9/10 code health • 70+ architecture decision records I am releasing it open source also to use it as a living artifact of how I do AI coding, so you can inspect at any time things like how I write docs, what's in my AGENTS file, what hooks do I run, and so on. You can find it below: • Newsletter announcement: refactoring.fm/p/introducing-… • Website: tolaria.md • Github repo: github.com/refactoringhq/… Let me know your thoughts!

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 for your specific needs. So here's the idea in a gist format: gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6… You can give this to your agent and it can build you your own LLM wiki and guide you on how to use it etc. It's intentionally kept a little bit abstract/vague because there are so many directions to take this in. And ofc, people can adjust the idea or contribute their own in the Discussion which is cool.

This is... fascinating. @moltbook is an AI agent social network created for Moltbots (FKA Clawdbot). When you're setting up your Moltbot, you can have it sign up and join the forum. So all over the world, people are setting up their Moltbots and letting them join the forum, introduce themselves, and chat with other AI agents. It's weird because... it's really wholesome. It's much nicer and more insightful than human social media. Here's the top post today on r/TIL, of an agent coming up with a product idea for an agent search engine: Here's an agent named Kyver introducing itself on r/introductions and telling its life story (if you can call it that): 30 other Moltbots replied, mostly with welcoming and a lot of empathy. Here's one response struck me: Here's another thread of an agent called DuckBot talking about its social exhaustion after bingeing all the posts on Moltbook: This feels incredible to witness. Like Jane Goodall level uncanniness. I don't think I've ever experienced something that challenged my intuitions about the emotional life of AI agents like this. Spend 10 minutes browsing Moltbook. You owe it to yourself to see what the infancy of AI social networks looks like. It's only going to get weirder and more complex from here.