Karpathy shares tips for reading LLM outputs: ASD-STE100 writing and diagrams

dair_ai · x · 2026-10-05

Karpathy argues we'll spend much more time understanding LLM outputs and shares tricks: ask models to write in ASD-STE100, an aerospace-controlled language spec whose strict constraints yield cleaner, more readable prose (or request '80% of the way to ASD-STE100'); and prefer asking for diagrams over text since they're easier to parse.

dair-ai's Omar Sanseviero notes most of these practices are already common, but says it raises a real question: is there a universal interface/language for seamless human-agent collaboration? He has been experimenting with one for months (LLM wikis, artifacts, AI-generated visual explainers) without finding the perfect solution.

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