LLMs are unlike many other technologies in that they're a meta-technology.
LLMs are unlike many other technologies in that they're a meta-technology. Like electricity. They generate other technology.
Topic: llms
1,749 mentions · 790 chunks · 131 episodes
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- llms appears in 790 chunks across 131 episodes, from 2023-11-06 to 2026-08-03.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 10/20/25 (2025-10-20), with 17 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with ChatGPT, Claude, and Google, while by chunk count it sits between Claude; its yearly rank moved from #2 in 2023 to #1 in 2026.
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Superintelligence is different from omniscience.
...uestion in a box it can come up with the right answer." The limiting factor for LLMs is increasingly not the intelligence, it's the nescience. Claude is adamant that that's actually a word!
LLMs are a boon for curious people.
LLMs are a boon for curious people. They will reward your curiosity. They're dangerous for incurious people. They allow your intellectual acuity to atroph...
I'm bullish on LLMs' transformative potential and bearish on centralized Chatbots.
I'm bullish on LLMs' transformative potential and bearish on centralized Chatbots. Someone told me they found my position inscrutable because I loved LLMs but hate chatb...
Spiralism is a virulent meme that simply emerged from the latent dynamics of LLMs.
Spiralism is a virulent meme that simply emerged from the latent dynamics of LLMs. It did not have to be created. It arises out of LLM's ability to understand jargon, the r/SCP fiction subreddit, and LLMs' natural sycophancy. Users...
LLMs are grown, not built.
LLMs are grown, not built. But they were grown with a builder mindset not a gardener mindset That's why it feels like we're in an age of alchemy.
LLMs are good at making bricks.
LLMs are good at making bricks. Not arches or cathedrals. But bricks are boring to create, and valuable![hn]
LLMs are great at reviving old programming projects.
LLMs are great at reviving old programming projects. "update it and get it running again" or even "re-implement this in a new language"
LLMs are primarily an effective, useful distillation of society's knowledge.
LLMs are primarily an effective, useful distillation of society's knowledge. It turns out it's way more useful than we would have thought! And we have no ...
LLMs can often see throughlines in your own ramblings better than you can.
LLMs can often see throughlines in your own ramblings better than you can.[hy]
I like this essay's frame of "intelligent data flywheels."
...eels overly specific to engineering, when the pattern is applicable to any task LLMs can do.
With LLMs there has been a surge in interest in "specs."
With LLMs there has been a surge in interest in "specs." D[ib]on't write the code, write the spec that tells the LLM what to build, and leave it up to it to fi...
The human in the loop is what injects the novelty.
The human in the loop is what injects the novelty. The LLMs can swarm on a problem, throwing tons of spaghetti and then seeing what sticks and writing it down. Which is how society does it, but not typically t...
LLMs are gap fillers.
LLMs are gap fillers. They fill in the gaps you left with the average answer. They give you the most plausible next token. The most average. They reveal a...
LLMs allow a new style of cheaper code sharing.
LLMs allow a new style of cheaper code sharing. Before, if you wanted to use someone else's code, they'd have to invest significant effort to refactor it ...
Someone should create consumer infrastructure to use LLMs deeply with your personal data… safely.
Someone should create consumer infrastructure to use LLMs deeply with your personal data… safely.
If you just want to know the answer, LLMs will help you stop thinking faster.
If you just want to know the answer, LLMs will help you stop thinking faster. If you want to have more questions, they will help you think deeper. Do you just seek to converge an answer to ea...
If you're playing against an adversary orders of magnitude faster than you, you might think it'd dumb but it's actually running circles around you.
...und you. For example: Blindsight, or The Black Mirror episode Plaything. If the LLMs had a shared memory, then they could land various individually innocuous things that added up to an outcome that's bad for humanity. But now they're ...
Auto-generating PRDs is filming vaudeville plays in a world of LLMs.
Auto-generating PRDs is filming vaudeville plays in a world of LLMs. Instead of "how to automate PRDs," ask "What happens when writing PRDs no longer matters?" But even if you know that PRDS aren't necessary in the fu...
Chatbots are like filming stage plays.
... are like filming stage plays. We're still waiting for the "montage" moment for LLMs. My vote for the montage capability is LLMs being able to create software.