karpathy-recipe

Applies Karpathy's "A Recipe for Training Neural Networks" adapted to software engineering. Forces a minimum runnable baseline before optimizing, one knob at a time, with verifiable eval at the beginning. Use when implementing a new feature, doing a non-trivial refactor, integrating an external service, or when the user says "implement X from scratch", "how to start feature Y", "recipe", "incremental approach", "baseline first".