Reading Research Papers with a 3-Pass LLM Method

Andrej Karpathy's reading habit: three passes through anything worth understanding. First pass is manual. Second, ask the LLM to explain and summarize. Third, Q&A on the parts that didn't land. He says he comes away with noticeably better understanding than if he'd just moved on. Works especially well for CV papers where the actual contribution is buried under five pages of related work.