karpathy-guidelines

To reduce LLM coding mistakes during refactoring, apply behavioral guidelines that surface assumptions, minimize changes to ensure surgical edits, and define verifiable success criteria for the codebase.

Effective guidelines for LLM code review involve avoiding overcomplication, enforcing surgical changes, stating explicit assumptions, and defining measurable success criteria to verify code behavior across varied project scopes.

LLMs overcomplicate code changes when lacking strict boundaries; fix this by applying surgical change guidelines that minimize edits, surface underlying assumptions, and define verifiable success criteria before execution.

Yes, you can apply these LLM coding guidelines across writing, reviewing, and refactoring tasks in varied project contexts by consistently surfacing assumptions and defining explicit success criteria.

Define verifiable success criteria for LLM coding tasks by explicitly stating assumptions and establishing clear, measurable rules that validate the surgical changes made during development or refactoring.