Karpathy: 'epub not PDF' — chunked workflow beats one-shot summarization

Andrej Karpathy advises using epub over PDF, converting to txt/md, and summarizing Wikipedia articles into 'book context' before tackling chapters one by one. He argues that 'working it in chunks' yields far better results than a naive 'attach PDF and ask to summarize' approach, calling the staged method 'indispensable.' The signal: even AI insiders find current models need careful prompt engineering for long-form comprehension — a tacit critique of one-shot summarization hype.

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Andrej Karpathy@karpathy