karpathy/llm.c

Maintenance

Dormant

Human commits, 30 days

0

Human commits, 90 days

0

Human commits, 365 days

0

Bot share of commits, 365 days

0%

Last commit

May 10, 2025 (1 year ago)

Last human commit

May 10, 2025 (1 year ago)

Authors, 90 days

0

Last release

none found

Median PR merge time

2 days

Responsiveness: of 4 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

• Only 4 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.
• 134 pull requests are open and nobody has committed in a year.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Personal account

Commits sampled

100 since Jul 28, 2024

Authors for half of commits

1

Authors for 80% of commits

3

Contributors

64

Top committers

• gordicaleksa: 50% of commits
• karpathy: 28% of commits
• ngc92: 11% of commits
• zhangpiu: 3% of commits
• ademeure: 2% of commits

• No human commits in the last 365 days, so shares use the newest 100 commits back to 2024-07-28T16:23:16Z.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• May 28, 2024 to May 31, 2024: about 607 more stars than usual, peak 301 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 11, 2024 to Jul 14, 2024: about 214 more stars than usual, peak 106 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 17, 2024 to Jul 18, 2024: about 95 more stars than usual, peak 82 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 23, 2024 to Aug 26, 2024: about 127 more stars than usual, peak 78 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Sep 2, 2024 to Sep 2, 2024: about 67 more stars than usual, peak 83 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Sep 22, 2024 to Sep 25, 2024: about 97 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 6, 2025 to Feb 18, 2025: about 274 more stars than usual, peak 44 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.

• 4 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

• The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

MIT (OSI-approved)

A year ago

MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

Sources: GitHub: karpathy/llm.c