karpathy-guidelines

Best practices for safe LLM coding involve following behavioral guidelines to prevent overcomplication, surface hidden assumptions, and enforce deterministic execution during code generation and refactoring. This minimizes common language model mistakes.

To review code generated by language models, apply structured operational guidelines that verify success criteria, validate deterministic scripts, and ensure adherence to industry coding standards. This surfaces assumptions and enhances overall safety.

You need operational coding standards to verify deterministic script execution. These guidelines provide structured procedures for checking success criteria, ensuring that language model outputs execute predictably and meet validation requirements.

Use structured guidelines for code generation instead of ad hoc prompting when you need to minimize mistakes, ensure safety, and validate deterministic execution. This enforces best practices during writing, reviewing, and refactoring.