Karpathy's Skill Just Fixed Claude Code's Biggest Problem

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Karpathy's CLAUDE.md just hit 120K GitHub stars — so I dropped it into a real Claude Code project (bookzero.ai) to see if these 4 rules actually fix Claude's bad habits. They do. The bigger unlock is combining them with Superpowers, GSD, and G-Stack. Key takeaways: - The 4 Karpathy principles (think before coding, simplicity, surgical changes, goal driven) embed as Claude's "personality" — always on, not triggered like skills - Install on an existing CLAUDE.md without conflicts — what to strip and how to merge cleanly - Wire it to Superpowers, GSD, and G-Stack for the full workflow 🔗 Join our School community: skool.com/erictech 🔗 Check out bookzero.ai — AI-powered bookkeeping built with Claude Code Skill Repo: https://github.com/multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:48 Think Before Coding 2:01 Simplicity First 2:19 Surgical Changes 2:30 Goal Driven 2:57 Install 4:04 Merge Conflicts 5:30 vs Superpowers 7:48 Combine Skills 10:10 Wrap up #claudecode #aitools #softwaredevelopment