Anthony Lee sicktastic

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.

1. Gemfile

gem 'browserify-rails', '1.5.0' # until fix: https://github.com/browserify-rails/browserify-rails/issues/101
gem 'react-rails'

Browserify-rails allows to use browserify within assets pipeline. React-rails is here only to allow to use #react_component (and thus, prerendering).

Note that jquery-rails can be removed from Gemfile, the npm version of jquery and jquery-ujs will be used instead.

Pry Cheat Sheet

Youtube Tutorial 2013

Command Line

pry -r ./config/app_init_file.rb - load your app into a pry session (look at the file loaded by config.ru)
pry -r ./config/environment.rb - load your rails into a pry session

Debugger

Last year I started playing around with using memoized private helper methods in my controllers instead of the traditional instance variable assigns we see in RoR controllers. Here's an example:

class PostsController < ApplicationController
  helper_method :new_post, :post, :posts
  
  def new; end
  def show; end
  def edit; end
 def index; end

	# .ebextensions/cache.config
	files:
	"/opt/elasticbeanstalk/hooks/appdeploy/pre/02a_set_cache.sh":
	mode: "000755"
	owner: root
	group: root
	content: \|
	#!/bin/bash
	set -xe

	def fill_stripe_elements(card)
	using_wait_time(15) { within_frame('stripeField_card_element0') do
	card.to_s.chars.each do \|piece\|
	find_field('cardnumber').send_keys(piece)
	end

	find_field('exp-date').send_keys("0122")
	find_field('cvc').send_keys '123'
	find_field('postal').send_keys '19335'
	end }

	require 'net/http'
	require 'json'
	require 'uri'

	@token = ''

	def list_files
	ts_to = (Time.now - 30 * 24 * 60 * 60).to_i # 30 days ago
	params = {
	token: @token,

	class Animal
	def run
	puts 'running'
	end
	end

	Animal.new.run #=> running

	class Wolf < Animal
	def follow_pack

	gem 'foreman'
	gem 'puma'