Untrusted code must be kept in a strong containment boundary.
...hange itself internally arbitrarily, that allows executing untrusted code, is a dead end.
Topic: dead end
24 chunks · 19 episodes
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- dead end appears in 24 chunks across 19 episodes, from 2023-12-11 to 2025-12-08.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 9/9/24 (2024-09-09), with 2 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with llms, exponential cost, and prompt injection attack, while by chunk count it sits between agent swarm and resonant computing manifesto; its yearly rank moved from #62 in 2023 to #35 in 2025.
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When you're in a culdesac, it's hard to get motivated.
...it's hard to get motivated. Every action you take just brings you deeper into a dead end. But when you feel like you're accumulating compounding possibilities, it's easy to get motivated. Locking in stepping stones for yourself in the fut...
This week in the wild west roundup.
...e prompts poems. This just drives home that "make the LLM not get tricked" is a dead end.
There's an explosion of AI-assisted browsers, but I think it's a dead end.
There's an explosion of AI-assisted browsers, but I think it's a dead end. Why is it happening? First, It's never been easier to fork Chromium. Also, it's becoming more clear that owning the context will matter, to make LLM...
A positioning maneuver: the gravity assist.
...big category looming large in everyone's minds. It has a lot of gravity. It's a dead end, but everyone is focused on it. Don't try to convince people to not be pulled into that gravity well, which takes tons of effort and will likely fail...
A feature I desperately want: the ability to curate / edit earlier messages in a chatbot thread, to better direct future output from the model.
...,[cz] to better direct future output from the model. I want to be able to prune dead ends or weird suppositions from the chatbot to keep the rest of the conversation from deteriorating. This is, on a technical level, easy, since each time...
A number of systems have strong momentum out of the gate, but sprint towards a dead end.
A number of systems have strong momentum out of the gate, but sprint towards a dead end. This is the source of the "logarithmic value / exponential cost" curve I've talked about in the past. Strength of momentum and height of ceiling are...
If you're only thinking in one dimension you'll waste tons of time down dead ends.
If you're only thinking in one dimension you'll waste tons of time down dead ends. They'll look like non-dead ends, but are dead ends in dimensions you can't even see.
Knowledge management systems today are a dead end.
Knowledge management systems today are a dead end. Information goes in but doesn't come out. Knowledge management is an end in and of itself... but only for a small set of enthusiasts. Notion workspa...
Prompt injection sets the ceiling of potential of LLMs.
...d integrations into chat via things like MCP. Vibe coders will get stuck making dead end little island apps. Both will get stuck on the privacy of prompt injection. Prompt injection and owning your data are actually related. Prompt inject...
When you have a compelling product, sometimes you can do a pull, not push GTM strategy.
... don't blindly follow the "weird" requests of early adopters and iterate into a dead end. You want to surf the energy in front of you not with the steepest gradient, but that best aligns with where you want to go. You will have minimized ...
A fundamental, inescapable battle that shapes a lot of the world around us: the warring curves.
...work. Starting from scratch seems impossible, and so you toil there, stuck in a dead end, increasingly exhausted and angry, until you give up. You can get to 80% of the value with 20% of the effort, but you'll need infinite effort to get ...
"I would simply do X" is a dead end analysis.
"I would simply do X" is a dead end analysis. It's incurious about why it might not be that simple. If it were that simple, it would have almost certainly been done that way already. Th...
Centralization is a late stage phenomena within a technical paradigm.
...it. That's how you get new entrants AOL-ing themselves. Putting themselves on a dead end tech island. But then once the internal emergent disruptive logic gets activated and swarming, it overwhelms the centralized approach.
Another frame for last week's "tech island": an early proprietary advantage that catches you in a dead end where the rest of the world passes you by.
...last week's "tech island": an early proprietary advantage that catches you in a dead end where the rest of the world passes you by. They're more likely to happen in immature environments, where a proprietary lead helps at the beginning bu...
The append-only conversation log to interact with LLMs leaves me wanting more.
...][amb] These conversations[amc][amd] are long and meandering. They have various dead ends or odd paths that I later decide aren't useful. These aren't like an essay or a simple conversation with a collaborator; they are creative, open-end...
Imagine you're pushing a collection of rocks up a hill.
...others can't see yet, or if you're investing increasingly desperate effort in a dead end? An important skill: to learn when to pull up out of a rabbit hole when you're hitting diminishing returns. It's easier for someone watching you to i...
When innovating, it's more important to prove to yourself that there is a plausible path forward, not that this is the path.
... The former is what determines if this step, if viable, will not put you into a dead end. You don't need to find the right path out; you just need to prove to yourself there at least is one. But by explaining that one to others, they will...
The most important thing to drive LLMs is to curate good context.
... conversation, you want to be able to prune the unrelated parts, the meandering dead ends from the conversation that might confuse the LLM in the future. The more tightly tuned the context, the better the answer. You can think of this cur...
Collapsing the wave function to a precise point takes significant energy.
...at the solution doesn't meet), you might have locked yourself into a non-viable dead end. The matrix of interlocking components set mutual constraints for each other. Especially when roughing in a new system, it's important to not collaps...