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Tedium is now free.

2026-04-06 · Bits and Bobs 4/6/26
  • Tedium is now free.
    • If you can break a complicated problem down into merely-tedious components, LLMs can do it.

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  • The United States frontier was partitioned according to the Public Land Survey System.2026-06-15
  • LLMs make intellectual technicians less necessary.2026-06-15
  • LLMs are great at making prototypes more real.2026-06-15
  • A tweet making an interesting observation: "No one really claims that alphafold is conscious, or that sora or midjourney or dall-e are conscious."2026-06-08
  • LLMs can make a superficially compelling argument even on absurd premises.2026-06-08
  • A new piece from Ben Hunt: Contact: AI and the Semantic Dimension.2026-06-08
  • LLMs have made it so much more of the potential of programming is possible.2026-06-01
  • The level of difficulty that people can tackle goes way up with LLMs.2026-06-01
← Maintaining cleanliness is easier than creating it.Ilya's assertion from many years ago "compression is intelligence." →

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  • llms

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  • agent swarm
  • coordination cost
  • huge amount

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  • A few extra Generative AI predictions (because why not).2023-12-04
  • Your mind runs on the substrate of your physical brain.2023-11-13
  • I had a chance to do some scenario planning last week with various folks on the long-range impact of LLMs on humanity.2023-11-13

Bits and Bobs by Alex Komoroske