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Codesight: The Karpathy-Inspired Hack Slashing 90% of Your AI Coding Tokens

Andrej Karpathy's viral rants on context engineering finally have a practical weapon: codesight, a zero-dep npx tool that feeds your AI a pre-digested codebase map instead of letting it flail. We're talking 90% token cuts on real projects — no hype, just numbers.

Terminal running npx codesight on a monorepo, displaying token reduction table

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • Codesight pre-compiles codebase maps via AST, slashing 90%+ of exploration tokens per AI session. 𝕏
  • Karpathy-inspired: Structured context > raw file dumps for smarter AI coding. 𝕏
  • Integrates with Claude, Cursor, Copilot; on-demand wiki and blast modes for refactors. 𝕏
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