Exercising An LLM Wiki

I’ve been playing with a Codex-assisted LLM Wiki in Obsidian for a week or so. Today it got its first serious exercise helping me plan for tomorrow’s VerseNotes office hours about Jesus as the firstborn, and it smashed it. It started from a few source notes I provided that I knew I had on the topic, surfaced a bunch more (including a cluster I wrote on “second sons in Scripture”), extracted Scripture references from all those notes, and compiled it all into a speaking outline with links to the source notes. Process Notes There are a thousand “do it for me” blog posts out there, and even an Obsidian plugin. But as usual, I want to build it myself so I know how it works. So I’ve written the prompts by hand and iterated on them as I’ve used them. Also, I don’t like Karpathy’s concept of an LLM-only wiki on top of/below my notes. If a note is useful, it should be useful to me and the machine. So I’ve baked that assumption into my prompts, and I’ve worked very slowly, one source at a time,…