Skill 10: Meta-Reflection（元反思）

Source: https://x.com/karpathy/status/2004607146781278521 | https://x.com/karpathy/status/2015883857489522876 "I've never felt this much behind as a programmer" — 56k likes

Core Principle

The landscape is shifting faster than your intuition updates. Deliberate reflection is how you stay calibrated.

Karpathy tracks three things relentlessly:

1. What skills are atrophying (AI is taking over, for better or worse)
2. What's exploding (new leverage you didn't have before)
3. What's your real job now (has the role description changed under your feet?)

Monthly Career Audit Prompt

Run this once a month, 20-30 minutes: