LLMs allow you to talk to the crystallized intuition of society.
LLMs allow you to talk to the crystallized intuition of society. LLMs: a deterministic system that outputs vibes LLMs are the apotheosis of the algorithm....
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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Today on Twitter, people doing cool things with LLMs share screenshots, not running links.
Today on Twitter, people doing cool things with LLMs share screenshots, not running links. That's because there's no good way to distribute it. If you link to a hosted demo with your own API key, you'll...
The App model is a poor fit for AI.
...or AI. The consumer app model requires services supportable by advertising. But LLMs are too expensive to be supported by advertising. So you need a subscription… but how many subscriptions will a user pay for? The one-size-fits-all, ...
Building a bit more on the LLMs as trained circus bears analogy from last week.
Building a bit more on the LLMs as trained circus bears analogy from last week. The trajectory we're on as an industry is not better-trained circus bears, but more of them on the lo...
A trained circus bear is an untrusted component.
...eed to figure out a way to work with it productively given that it's untrusted. LLMs are gullible and squishy, and highly susceptible to their (perhaps hidden to you) inputs. You must treat LLMs as an untrusted component in your syste...
In many AI products today, the ceiling is set by the LLM's quality.
...n a given situation, the product doesn't work. In some ways this is reasonable: LLMs are improving the quality-per-unit-cost rapidly. But a better approach is to design a system where the LLM's quality is the floor. If the humans are ...
It's not end-user programming, it's end-user product management.
...r product management is more about behavior. Even with the magical duct tape of LLMs, end-user programming is still hard to achieve. You can get quick, scrappy prototypes quickly, but it's hard to maintain / grow / extend them without...
Instead of handing your agency over to LLMs, use them to extend your agency!
Instead of handing your agency over to LLMs, use them to extend your agency!
The Iron Bridge in England was the first bridge made of iron.
...nd started making bridges in new ways native to it. Similarly, people are using LLMs to make things in more code-like ways, because we don't yet know the best way to work with this new, odd material. The current products are hodgepodg...
A few people have built a way to interact with LLMs where it can ask questions about your day and help you distill a journal for reflection later.
A few people have built a way to interact with LLMs where it can ask questions about your day and help you distill a journal for reflection later. One way: do a GPT in ChatGPT. It's easy to do... but n...
LLMs are good at intuition, not reasoning.
LLMs are good at intuition, not reasoning. The "no cake recipe should have 5 tablespoons of tabasco sauce in it" call is not reasoning, but intuition, so ...
LLMs are like a trained circus bear that can make you porridge in your kitchen.
LLMs are like a trained circus bear that can make you porridge in your kitchen. It's a miracle that it's able to do it at all, but watch out because no ma...
ChatGPT and LLMs have proven to be more useful to individuals than to companies.
ChatGPT and LLMs have proven to be more useful to individuals than to companies. That implies that we're still in the community garden phase, not the factory farming ...
For LLMs, we have the camera-making hobbyists today, but not the photographers.
For LLMs, we have the camera-making hobbyists today, but not the photographers. At the beginning the skillset has to be camera-making, and over time it shifts...
Using LLMs properly requires LLM-fu.
Using LLMs properly requires LLM-fu. Just like Google-fu back in the day. The kinds of people who had developed an intuition on how to formulate their query (so...
LLMs are not the Thing.
LLMs are not the Thing. They're a part of the Thing. What is the Thing? We don't know yet! LLMs are magical duct tape that can be used to build the Thing....
People think of privacy concerns as a tax.
...tive: lead with a new privacy paradigm allowing composition first, and then add LLMs to that. This could create a system where a copernican shift of data provides leverage for whole new types of experiences to be possible that weren't...
One thing LLMs can help with: making simple judgment calls at the level that any reasonable human could do.
One thing LLMs can help with: making simple judgment calls at the level that any reasonable human could do. "This cake recipe says you should put in five tablespoon...
LLMs are vulnerable to the "screenshot attack".
LLMs are vulnerable to the "screenshot attack". That is, if they say something offensive or wrong the user can take a screenshot and it can go viral, erod...
Stray thoughts on LLMs.
Stray thoughts on LLMs. LLMs (just like people) are a lot better at critiquing things than coming up with new things. LLMs have a theory of mind, in general. But if they do...