What Should Your AI Actually Remember?
Indexing session transcripts sounds like memory. It mostly retrieves scratch work. The useful stuff was already distilled into artifacts. Keep the artifacts.
Posts tagged Second brain
Why Isn't Your AI Second Brain Working?
Most AI second brains fail because they dump too much into context. A useful AI memory uses retrieval, freshness, provenance, and short curated notes.
Using MCP as Your Second Brain
Using MCP as your second brain means keeping your notes in one place and letting any AI client read and write them over the Model Context Protocol. Here's the pattern, the reference architecture, and how to run it.
An LLM wiki CLAUDE.md template: the schema, an annotated example, and a copy-paste file
A copy-paste CLAUDE.md for the Karpathy LLM wiki pattern: the schema, an annotated example wiki page, and the rules that make an agent maintain it. Works in Claude Code, with Obsidian or Logseq, or hosted over MCP in Hjarni.
Google Described the Format Hjarni Already Speaks
Google Cloud's Open Knowledge Format (OKF) is folders of Markdown that AI agents can read. What the spec covers, why it matters, and how to export to it.
The Best Ways to Give Your AI Memory (2026)
Six ways to give Claude or ChatGPT a memory in 2026, compared honestly. A knowledge base over MCP, built-in memory, projects, CLAUDE.md files, and more.
ChatGPT memory got an upgrade. It still is not a knowledge base.
OpenAI's 'Dreaming' upgrade makes ChatGPT remember more about you, automatically. Here is what it does well, and the job it still cannot do: be a knowledge base your AI can read.
Your Notes Aren't Agent-Legible Yet
Context engineering made code legible to coding agents. Your notes need the same thing. Capture is solved. Legibility is the bottleneck.
LLM wiki: Obsidian vs Hjarni
Running Karpathy's LLM wiki in an Obsidian vault versus a hosted knowledge base over MCP. What each one gives you, and an honest list of what you give up.
Generation is solved. Finding it again is the problem.
A chat log is a transcript, not a knowledge base. Generation got good. Retrieval is the part that is still broken. Here is why, and what fixes it.
What is a second brain? A guide for the AI age
A second brain is a place outside your head where you store everything worth keeping. Here's what it is, why it matters, and why AI changes what it needs to do.
What to save in your AI knowledge base: 5 recipes
Five small workflows that turn Hjarni into memory for Claude and ChatGPT. Customer context, meeting notes, decision logs, a style guide your AI follows, and inbox leads handled while you sleep.
LLM wiki vs. plain Markdown: when Karpathy's gist stops working
A plain Markdown file works for the LLM wiki pattern. Until it doesn't. Here are the five points where it stops working, and what to use instead.
What is a Second Brain? The AI-Native Take (2026)
A second brain is an external system for what you read, think, and decide. The traditional version is a graveyard. Here's what replaces it in 2026.
My Marketing Team Is Two AIs and a Knowledge Base
I run Hjarni's entire growth program from inside Hjarni itself. Two AIs, three folders, and a built-in MCP server. Here's the real loop, step by step.
Karpathy's LLM Wiki is right. I just didn't want to run it locally.
Andrej Karpathy's LLM wiki gist nails it. Stop dumping documents at LLMs. Build a brain. Hjarni hosts it over MCP, in Claude and ChatGPT, on every device.
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