How I use LLMs | Tools | Andrej Karpathy

How I use LLMs | Andrej Karpathy

The example-driven, practical walkthrough of Large Language Models and their growing list of related features - by How I use LLMs | Andrej Karpathy

Chapters

• 00:00:00 Intro into the growing LLM ecosystem
• 00:02:54 ChatGPT interaction under the hood
• 00:13:12 Basic LLM interactions examples
• 00:18:03 Be aware of the model you’re using, pricing tiers
• 00:22:54 Thinking models and when to use them
• 00:31:00 Tool use: internet search
• 00:42:04 Tool use: deep research
• 00:50:57 File uploads, adding documents to context
• 00:59:00 Tool use: python interpreter, messiness of the ecosystem
• 01:04:35 ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis, figures, plots
• 01:09:00 Claude Artifacts, apps, diagrams
• 01:14:02 Cursor: Composer, writing code
• 01:22:28 Audio (Speech) Input/Output
• 01:27:37 Advanced Voice Mode aka true audio inside the model
• 01:37:09 NotebookLM, podcast generation
• 01:40:20 Image input, OCR
• 01:47:02 Image output - DALL-E, Ideogram, etc.
• 01:49:14 Video input - point and talk on app
• 01:52:23 Video output - Sora, Veo 2, etc etc.
• 01:53:29 ChatGPT memory, custom instructions
• 01:58:38 Custom GPTs
• 02:06:30 Summary

Links

• Tiktokenizer https://tiktokenizer.vercel.app/
• OpenAI’s ChatGPT https://chatgpt.com/
• Anthropic’s Claude https://claude.ai/
• Google’s Gemini https://gemini.google.com/
• xAI’s Grok https://grok.com/
• Perplexity https://www.perplexity.ai/
• Google’s NotebookLM https://notebooklm.google.com/
• Cursor https://www.cursor.com/

Intro to Large Language Models

Also, Intro to Large Language Models by Andrej Karpathy. This has interesting insights for general audience, but with software background.