Re:Awesome repositories are no longer awesome
by RockyMcNuts on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:48AM
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So easy to make it self-curating, if not self-updating with e.g. Karpathy wiki workflow.
PRs are not a great way to maintain it, need a front end that requires a human-shaped effort, email and CATCHA, although agents will figure it out.
But then the back end can be automated to some extent, automate getting a signal as to whether someone put serious effort into it, whether it has any traction.
At the end of the day the whole point is knowledgable human curating the list, so it will be hard if it's a fast-moving topic. And that is what makes it useful.
Anyway wikipedia still seems to work but it takes a well-motivated, well-tooled army. Maybe we need that, some kind of updated wikipedia for tech updated by SMEs.
PRs are not a great way to maintain it, need a front end that requires a human-shaped effort, email and CATCHA, although agents will figure it out.
But then the back end can be automated to some extent, automate getting a signal as to whether someone put serious effort into it, whether it has any traction.
At the end of the day the whole point is knowledgable human curating the list, so it will be hard if it's a fast-moving topic. And that is what makes it useful.
Anyway wikipedia still seems to work but it takes a well-motivated, well-tooled army. Maybe we need that, some kind of updated wikipedia for tech updated by SMEs.