Zack Walton waltonzt

LLM Wiki

A pattern for building personal knowledge bases using LLMs.

This is an idea file, it is designed to be copy pasted to your own LLM Agent (e.g. OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode / Pi, or etc.). Its goal is to communicate the high level idea, but your agent will build out the specifics in collaboration with you.

The core idea

Most people's experience with LLMs and documents looks like RAG: you upload a collection of files, the LLM retrieves relevant chunks at query time, and generates an answer. This works, but the LLM is rediscovering knowledge from scratch on every question. There's no accumulation. Ask a subtle question that requires synthesizing five documents, and the LLM has to find and piece together the relevant fragments every time. Nothing is built up. NotebookLM, ChatGPT file uploads, and most RAG systems work this way.

Updating a feature branch

First we'll update your local master branch. Go to your local project and check out the branch you want to merge into (your local master branch)

$ git checkout master

Fetch the remote, bringing the branches and their commits from the remote repository. You can use the -p, --prune option to delete any remote-tracking references that no longer exist in the remote. Commits to master will be stored in a local branch, remotes/origin/master.

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

	//----------------------------- MISC -------------------------------\\
	//------------------------------------------------------------------\\
	sv_cheats "1"
	sv_showimpacts "0"
	sv_showimpacts_time "2.5"

	//---------------------------- BINDS -------------------------------\\
	//------------------------------------------------------------------\\
	bind "SPACE" "demo_togglepause" // pause/play demo
	bind "c" "r_cleardecals" // get rid of bulletholes and black residue from grenade explosions

	global class PagingSortingController {
	@AuraEnabled global static Account[] getAccounts() {
	return [SELECT Name, Industry, AnnualRevenue FROM Account LIMIT 1000];
	}
	}