Design like Karpathy is watching
summary
MenuGen is a photo‑from‑menu web app built with generative models that works locally but trips over deployment: docs and Replicate API were outdated, an account triggered a block after ~1,000 requests in an hour, and payments weren’t set up for high‑usage testing. Fixes that matter here are concrete: add markdown exports and curl examples, publish an OpenAPI schema so an MCP server can drive agents, embed llm.text and cog.run llm.ext so LLMs can call and scaffold code, and expose slim JSON pricing and rate limits so automation actually works.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction and setup
- 1:55Who is Andre Karpathy
- 3:40MenuGuen and deployment pain
- 5:25LLM-friendly documentation
- 7:09Why LLMs love curl
- 8:31Cog and LLM.text integration
- 9:35What is MCP
- 12:45MCP server for Replicate
- 13:28Fixing API abuse issues
- 14:51Document every feature
- 15:33Feed the language models
- 16:14API hygiene for LLMs
- 16:58Q&A session
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