∗ Inspired by Karpathy — LLM Coding Failure Field Guide

Your AI coding
agent has 12
failure modes

Andrej Karpathy called out the core failure patterns in LLM coding agents. This field guide expands that into 12 named anti-patterns and one practical rules file that helps catch them before they hit your diff.

↓ Get CLAUDE.md View Failure Zoo ↗ Repository ↗ Upstream project
11
Principles
12
Failure modes
1
File
THE CONFIDENT FABRICATOR  ·  THE DRIVE-BY REFACTORER  ·  THE DEPENDENCY HOARDER  ·  THE HAPPY PATH PROPHET  ·  THE PHANTOM TEST  ·  THE 1000-LINE ARCHITECT  ·  THE COMMENT GHOST  ·  THE GLOBAL HOARDER  ·  THE SYCOPHANT  ·  THE ASSUMPTION RUNNER  ·  THE VERSION MUTATOR  ·  THE STACK TRACE SKIMMER  ·   THE CONFIDENT FABRICATOR  ·  THE DRIVE-BY REFACTORER  ·  THE DEPENDENCY HOARDER  ·  THE HAPPY PATH PROPHET  ·  THE PHANTOM TEST  ·  THE 1000-LINE ARCHITECT  ·  THE COMMENT GHOST  ·  THE GLOBAL HOARDER  ·  THE SYCOPHANT  ·  THE ASSUMPTION RUNNER  ·  THE VERSION MUTATOR  ·  THE STACK TRACE SKIMMER  · 
∗ The Failure Zoo

12 Named Failure Modes

∗ The Guidelines

11 Principles

Drop it in. Ship better.

One curl command. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any agent that reads CLAUDE.md.

curl -o CLAUDE.md ./CLAUDE.md
echo "" >> CLAUDE.md && curl ./CLAUDE.md >> CLAUDE.md