Ilya Sutskever's 30 Papers vs Welcome

Explore the deep learning reading list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack, with free audio explainers for AlexNet, ResNet, Transformers, scaling laws, and more.

Model your project's quality so teams and agents can evaluate it, stay aligned on what good means, and improve it over time.

About Ilya Sutskever's 30 Papers

Explore the deep learning reading list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack, with free audio explainers for AlexNet, ResNet, Transformers, scaling laws, and more. These courses, books, and code-heavy pieces do not currently have a ListenDock audio episode. When legendary game programmer John Carmack decided to move into AI, he asked OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever what he should read. Ilya handed him a list of around thirty works and said that learning them would cover 90% of what matters in modern deep learning.

About Welcome

Model your project's quality so teams and agents can evaluate it, stay aligned on what good means, and improve it over time. is designed to be agent, tool, and vendor agnostic. serve as both a reference implementation and starter kit for working with QUALITY.md files, including the ability to create a comprehensive quality evaluation report . Ensure stakeholders are aligned on what matters most and why. Build agentic control loops to continuously maintain and improve quality .