LLMs are a mirror.
LLMs are a mirror. Of society in general (the weights; the background awareness). Of the user specifically (the context; the questions the user brings to ...
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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I loved this socratic dialogue from Geoffrey Litt about why chat is not the final UI for LLMs.
...socratic dialogue from Geoffrey Litt[fq] about why chat is not the final UI for LLMs.
Every form of UX around chatbots today has tried to grapple with the model's limitations.
...downsides fundamental to chat itself? Those will help discover the ideal UX for LLMs.
If chat isn't a good UI for LLMs, why is it winning?
If chat isn't a good UI for LLMs, why is it winning? To me it's entirely based on the novelty of LLMs, everyone's just experimenting with them right now and starting open-ended tasks...
LLMs have lots of last-mile problems.
LLMs have lots of last-mile problems. Largely due to gardening the right context and the right coactive UI.
If you've gone through the effort of having high quality programmatic thinking LLMs can write infinite Op Eds for you, on demand.
If you've gone through the effort of having high quality programmatic thinking LLMs can write infinite Op Eds for you, on demand. The backlog of Bits and Bobs feels exceptionally valuable to me in the age of AI.
Bruce Schneier points out that LLMs will bring mass spying.
Bruce Schneier points out that LLMs will bring mass spying. Before, we had mass surveillance, but a human sifting through the collected data happened rarely. That limited the oversight ...
LLMs are infinitely patient so good enough ACLs aren't good enough any more.
LLMs are infinitely patient so good enough ACLs aren't good enough any more. Before your data was protected a bit by security through obscurity. But LLMs ...
Garry Tan on Twitter:
Garry Tan on Twitter: "New social networks are going to appear that will be LLMs creating a cozy web customized for us and our real friends, and their friends and so on There will be a new social network built on mutual trust, all...
One of the downsides of infinite patience of LLMs: encouraging spirals in people with OCD.
One of the downsides of infinite patience of LLMs: encouraging spirals in people with OCD. Sycosocial.
LLMs are like tofu.
LLMs are like tofu.[gj] They absorb the intention of the context. Even an earnest and helpful LLM, when given malicious context, can itself become malicio...
Which will be more important by unit weight in software systems in the AI era, LLMs or normal code?
Which will be more important by unit weight in software systems in the AI era, LLMs or normal code? A lot of platforms being built for the age of AI imagine that most of the weight of systems will be LLMs, with just a little bit of c...
Which is easier, engineers to become subject matter experts, or subject matter experts becoming engineers?
...tem pole and always will be". But the tech industry as a whole would miss it if LLMs changed it because we'd all have the same bias and blindspot. Domains that don't work with CS are less deterministic. Their taste, metacognition, ent...
A lot of the best practices for programming with LLMs are the same as for humans.
A lot of the best practices for programming with LLMs are the same as for humans. For example, document each directory with a README, have aggressive type checking / linters. But most humans give up or a...
Computer Science was used to build LLMs.
Computer Science was used to build LLMs. But Computer Science can't tell us how to understand LLMs.
LLMs are essence extractors, not mechanical reproducers.
LLMs are essence extractors, not mechanical reproducers. The way they learn from their training data is more than just reproducing. Essence is a new conce...
I love Ben Follington's piece on interacting with LLMs as dream walking.
I love Ben Follington's piece on interacting with LLMs as dream walking.
Every built a Diplomacy game for LLMs to play.
Every built a Diplomacy game for LLMs to play. Gemini generally does well. Claude refuses to lie, and thus loses often. ChatGPT o3 often wins because it is very happy to betray its collab...
You can typically trust off-the-shelf LLMs to not try to manipulate you in particular.
You can typically trust off-the-shelf LLMs to not try to manipulate you in particular. But LLMs are easy to fool. So if anyone else you don't trust is feeding input into the context, then the ...
I used ChatGPt to identify an odd piece of hardware in my post-war AirBnB in Manhattan this week.
...hatGPT. Only an open-ended tool could do that. Now that we have approaches like LLMs it's impossible to see how Google Lens's old approach of manually curating data for individual verticals could never have possibly ever worked in gen...