A searchable archive of Alex Komoroske's Bits and Bobs weekly newsletter.
Latest: Bits and Bobs 8/3/26
- Agents are like teenagers: precociously dumb.
- My friend Ben Follington: "For cooking, models act like a chef but are actually just nerds for cookbooks."
- The best combination is models plus well-marbled correct human judgment.
- LLMs don't necessarily help you think 10x deeper.
- LLMs are great at finding zero days not because they're smart but because they're parallelizable.
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