Karpathy's 4 CLAUDE.md rules cut Claude mistakes from 41% to 11%. After 30 codebases, I added 8 more

Karpathy's 4 CLAUDE.md rules cut Claude mistakes from 41% to 11%. After 30 codebases, I added 8 more

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ENGLISH4 weeks ago · May 09, 2026

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This article expands on Andrej Karpathy's viral AI coding rules, introducing 8 additional guidelines that drastically reduce Claude's mistake rate across complex, multi-step agent tasks.

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