@noisyb0y1: ANDREJ KARPATHY JUST KILLED THE $500/MONTH RAG SETUP - HIS OBSIDIAN SYSTEM DOES THE SAME THING FOR FREE Karpathy built …

ANDREJ KARPATHY JUST KILLED THE $500/MONTH RAG SETUP - HIS OBSIDIAN SYSTEM DOES THE SAME THING FOR FREE

Karpathy built a knowledge base that handles thousands of documents, answers complex questions and finds connections across everything he’s ever read - no vector database, no embeddings, no complicated retrieval

just a clever markdown file structure that Claude Code navigates in 1-2 tool calls instead of 50 vector queries

raw folder catches everything - Web Clipper turns any webpage into markdown automatically, Claude Code conducts its own research and builds wikis on demand

master index keeps everything navigable - 3 wikis or 3,000 wikis, the path is always clear

2:52 he says the most important thing - most people don’t need real RAG

Obsidian covers 90% of use cases - $0 setup, $0 running costs, same output

LightRAG and similar systems only make sense above one million documents - 99% of people never get there

if you want to build your own Obsidian assistant in a few hours - full guide in the article below

you’re alpha too

even more than karpathy

mine too

do you use it often?

@noisyb0y1 love how he keeps it simple, makes me wanna rethink my whole setup