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... AI Error. "The human fascination with conversation has led us AI astray," The "LLMs being an anthropomorphized agent" is a hack that makes it easier for users to connect with this alien technology. Like the aliens in Contact. Not its...
Chatbots are not LLMs. LLMs are not AI. They are all related, but they are different.
We're still in the dialup phase of LLMs. Credit to my friend Roy Bahat.
... design and pre-assemble all of the lego sets for different needs. But now with LLMs allowing infinite software, the balance point shifts.
Joel Simon's Creative Exploration with Reasoning LLMs is interesting. If you ask LLMs to be creative they converge to the mush average. But if you inject structured noise, for example by having it apply ...
...a minor. Earlier in my career the CS felt more useful. But now with the rise of LLMs, this odd kind of cultural technology that is grown, not built, Social Studies feels more valuable.
Bruce Schneier on prompt injection: "We need some new fundamental science of LLMs before we can solve this."
...ack. Takes advantage of the fact humans don't actually read license blocks, but LLMs do. Infinite patience strikes again.
...uality, convincing arguments[ak] used to require a significant skill to do. Now LLMs make it so anyone can spin them up at a moment's notice. That cheapens even truly well written and effective argumentation. Will we have to evolve a ...
With LLMs, the benefits seem to have shifted decisively to typed languages. Typed languages are much easier to iterate within without breaking things. The prob...
...ating strings of source code. AST is hard for humans to understand, but not for LLMs! LLMs have the patience to deal with complicated types. Even if they don't understand it at first, they are willing to try again and again and again ...
LLMs can do qualitative nuance at quantitative scale. This ability can be used for you, or against you. By default, it will be used against you. Distillin...
...ze queries. Follow standard practices and you don't have to think about it. Now LLMs make all text executable. Frameworks don't help. Everything is code. XSS has a solution: we can parse HTML/JS with 100% accuracy and sanitize it. Eve...
This week's wild west roundup, this time using LLMs incidentally in attack chains: Nx compromised: malware uses Claude code CLI to explore the filesystem zack_overflow: "A popular NPM package got compr...
... one I was thinking of. I imagine we'll see much more web traffic in the age of LLMs. A single user intent can spawn orders of magnitude more searches and fetches on their behalf. More traffic to websites, without more intent, seems l...
Are LLMs mass media or not? On the one hand there's a single shared model that has specific biases that shape all interactions with them. Some of them are rea...
...o multiplied by infinity is infinity. "Prompt injection won't be a problem once LLMs get perfectly good at not being tricked" is absurd. Prompt injection comes from a coevolving adversary, not a static distribution of quality. That me...
...ed on the current task. I wonder what other innovations will come form treating LLMs as not append-only ping-pong chat.
I think the world is ready for the dishwasher and microwave oven of LLMs. Today we have the faux humanoid robot that talks and acts like a (weird) human). Chat is a new UI to put on top of all those tools but not be the an...
The fact that LLMs still require humans in the loop to get good recurrent results undermines the "AGI is imminent" perspective. Even if the LLM is right 95% of the time...