My friend Aparna: Most Work is Translation.
My friend Aparna: Most Work is Translation. If LLMs are infinitely good translators from any language / context to any other, and work is mostly translation, LLMs should revolutionize work, especially ...
Topic: llms
1,841 mentions · 834 chunks · 141 episodes
194.1× distinctiveness vs baseline
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1.6x burst in 2025 Q1
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- llms appears in 834 chunks across 141 episodes, from 2023-11-06 to 2026-10-12.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 10/20/25 (2025-10-20), with 17 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with Claude, ChatGPT, and Meta, while by chunk count it sits between Claude; its yearly rank moved from #2 in 2023 to #1 in 2026.
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This week I was in a collaborative discussion about systemic fixes to healthcare.
... First, make risk-adjusted outcome data transparent per provider. Second, allow LLMs working on behalf of a given user to research the best provider for them. Humans don't have the patience to compare all of the different options, but...
A powerful pattern for LLMs: swarms of research goblin scouts.
A powerful pattern for LLMs: swarms of research goblin scouts. Credit to Simon Willison for the term research goblin. The research goblin isn't as good as you at research, but i...
Subagents are mainly about context management.
...b-problem, just give the main agent the answer to the sub-problem. Less for the LLMs to get confused by. It also helps minimize taint in a system where that's important.
Paul Kedrosky: ChatGPT as the original AI Error.
... 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.
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.
We're still in the dialup phase of LLMs. Credit to my friend Roy Bahat.
The beauty of a pre-assembled lego set: users don't have to realize it's made of legos.
... 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.
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 ...
My degree is in Social Studies.
...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."
Bruce Schneier on prompt injection: "We need some new fundamental science of LLMs before we can solve this."
A new LLM attack: the CopyPasta License Attack.
...ack. Takes advantage of the fact humans don't actually read license blocks, but LLMs do. Infinite patience strikes again.
This week I watched a very effective writer's output be critiqued as "sounding like AI."
...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.
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...
A tweet: "oh lord, how did i not think of this before?
...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.
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...
We spent decades making injection attacks invisible to developers.
...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:
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...
LLM's infinite patience can be used for research that would be too tedious to bother doing before.
... 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?
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...