People are trying to figure out how to cram LLMs into the current generation of software.
People are trying to figure out how to cram LLMs into the current generation of software. What we need is the next generation of software for the AI era.
Topic: llms
1,598 mentions · 615 chunks · 117 episodes
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- llms appears in 615 chunks across 117 episodes, from 2023-11-06 to 2026-04-20.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 2/2/26 (2026-02-02), with 15 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with ChatGPT, Claude, and prompt injection attack, while by chunk count it sits between Claude; its yearly rank moved from #3 in 2023 to #1 in 2026.
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AI must have a subscription to be user-aligned.
...Attention is all you need… a neverending force of gravity not just for training LLMs but for business models too.
Three humanity-denying visions for the age of AI:
...troying society's soul for a buck.[mn] 3) Doomerism, pushing back on any use of LLMs. Humans need hope, something to strive for, together.[mo] An optimistic vision for the future: intentional tech. Tech aligned with our intentions, th...
One possible steamroller kind of problem: a lack of apprenticeship in the age of AI.
... called an "informal upgrade network." Senior employees with experience can use LLMs to do the jobs of multiple junior people. These indirect processes are things that might evaporate with LLM and a need for fewer junior employees. Th...
I liked this essay about LLMs are weird computers.
I liked this essay about LLMs are weird computers. Normal programs can't write a sonnet to save its life. LLMs can't give you the same results repeatedly to save its life. Determi...
I like Amp Code's slogan: "Let the tokens flow."
I like Amp Code's slogan: "Let the tokens flow." Maximally using LLMs will require context and tokens. Focus on the users who are living in the future, and make them successful.
Chatbot is a feature, not a paradigm.
... industry we're so distracted by Chatbots. Chatbots are the most obvious use of LLMs, what you'd come up with after thinking for literally 30 seconds. Their obviousness is like a bright light, blinding us to everything else. Chats are...
ChatGPT knows too little about me to be useful.
...information is creepy. Where do I dump my life context in a way that will allow LLMs to work on it? A trusted place just for me, totally aligned with my interest.
The context and the LLM you use should be separate.
...nintentionally. Why might context portability happen now when it didn't before? LLMs are the most intimate technology ever, the stakes have never been higher. The hard part of interoperability is coordinating on schemas, but that prob...
ChatGPT's memory feature refusing to tell you what it knows about you is inherently creepy and lampshades the misaligned incentives.
...gagement-maximizing playbook of Facebook, multiplied by the superhuman power of LLMs. Terrifying!
It's my context, not the model's.
It's my context, not the model's.[nn] I want to be able to bring it to other LLMs, and not have to worry about some company building a dossier on me. I also want to choose what context to include or exclude in a given conversation ...
Infinite content and LLMs can create filter bubbles but for your self-perception.
Infinite content and LLMs can create filter bubbles but for your self-perception. Not only is it finding the content that makes you feel good about what you already believe,[n...
Prompt injection is hard to combat because normal sandboxing doesn't work without a million permission dialogs.
...illion permission dialogs. The stuff you'd use to contain the prompt injection (LLMs) is the stuff that can be tricked by anything you show. Turtles all the way down. "Do you trust this domain to get information from this chat?" This ...
Prompt injection will become more and more of a problem as we use AI for more real things, at scale.
...eason this isn't a big problem yet is that we're just in the tinkering phase of LLMs.
Tool calling is what makes LLMs turing-complete.
Tool calling is what makes LLMs turing-complete. Able to not just say, but do.
I love Inverting the Socratic Method in the Age of AI from my friend Anthea Roberts.
... teaching method that forces students to have good answers. But in an era where LLMs make answers cheap, the real skill is asking good questions.
Anthea pointed out to me that LLMs should raise teachers' expectations of what students can accomplish.
Anthea pointed out to me that LLMs should raise teachers' expectations of what students can accomplish. One approach to LLMs in education is worrying about the floor. "How would you ev...
LLM companies are trying to get a premature monopoly on LLMs.
LLM companies are trying to get a premature monopoly on LLMs. We didn't figure out the participatory architecture yet, which is necessary for the early stage of new technologies!
This week I learned about the Scots Wikipedia controversy.
...the web, it formed a larger amount of the LLM context on Scots. That means that LLMs also likely replicate Scots poorly, all because of one weird bottleneck. A similar kind of thing happens in evolutionary biology, a "population bottl...
The algorithms we use to navigate the firehose of infinite content shape how society sees itself.
... the worst timeline." Imagine it for our entire digital lives. If everyone uses LLMs to cothink, the guardrails they have will shape all of society. This analysis shows the power of a centralized algorithm that everyone views the worl...