Squishy bricks make for unstable buildings.

· Bits and Bobs 7/20/26
  • Squishy bricks make for unstable buildings.
    • It's hard to make a mechanistic thing out of a squishy thing.
    • LLMs' power is precisely their squishiness.
    • Something made of smaller mechanistic pieces can be stacked on each other.
    • But a wobbly block of jelly on top of a wobbly jelly foundation compounds the wobbliness.
    • The wobbliness is a lack of commitment.
    • Commitments allow components to fit together.
    • Instead of having the squishy stuff on the outside and the deterministic stuff on the inside, flip it.
    • Have a deterministic outside with a squishy inside.