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<b>Most people use AI like a slightly smarter Google.</b>
• Ask a question, get an answer, close the tab, forget everything
• Meanwhile, a small group of people is quietly building <b>self-improving knowledge bases</b> that compound every week
• And those people will outcompete everyone else in research, products, and careers
This article shows you exactly how to build one - using Obsidian, Claude Code, Skills, and plain markdown. No PhD required. Just a system you can set up this weekend.
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## What You're Actually Building
<i>Forget "taking notes". You're building a <b>living wiki</b> that an LLM writes and maintains for you in the background.</i>
The idea comes from Andrej Karpathy (ex-OpenAI, Tesla AI) who recently shared that a large fraction of his LLM usage has shifted - less into writing code, more into <b>manipulating knowledge stored as markdown files</b>.
<b>Here's the full loop:</b>
• You dump raw data (articles, papers, repos, transcripts, images) into a raw/ folder
• An LLM compiles that into a structured wiki in wiki/ - markdown files with concepts, backlinks, summaries
• You view and navigate it in <b>Obsidian</b> with graph view
• You ask complex questions - the LLM reads your wiki and writes answers as new files
• Periodically, an LLM "health check" cleans inconsistencies and proposes new articles
• Every query <b>files back</b> into the wiki, making it smarter over time
<b>The mental shift: LLM as compiler and librarian - not chatbot.</b>
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## Step 1 - Make Capture Stupidly Easy