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Chatbots are perhaps 1/10 or 1/100 of the actual value extractable from LLMs. What we see for chatbot subscription revenues reflects that lower efficiency of value. Already people who are using LLM coding agents are willing to...
...iew the output, and just share it with the world. When you have a dialogue with LLMs you can make something better than you could have made alone.
Centralized, singular LLMs must have a kind of bland beige aesthetic. Inoffensive to everyone and yet loved by no one. An internal consensus / average. When your work is edited...
...s-editor writing modality. If everything is written by a handful of centralized LLMs, we'll lose variety in our arguments in society.
When you discover writing is written by LLMs it feels like a betrayal. "Oh, I kind of like this. … wait, this was written by an LLM?!" If feels like "you tricked me" and you're embarrassed you f...
...llows them to run the world forever. There are a lot of companies in the age of LLMs that are positioned to have the "one rug pull to end all competition." Not saying any of them would do that… but they could!
With LLMs you can "fork" any software you can use. Before, you needed access to the source code. Most code is commodity, it's just it was tedious to recreate. ...
What percent of a program's control flow is LLMs (vs normal code)? Agent startups assume it's 70%. If you took out the LLM the software wouldn't even exist. Another approach: assume it's 0-50%. That...
LLMs are a commodity, and if you act like that, a lot of things become more clear. The big model labs don't want that to be the case, but it's obviously t...
At some point in the quality curve of LLMs, "this sounds like an LLM wrote it" will be a compliment.[ct][cu][cv]
...anal engineering." We'll all just assume that of course most code is written by LLMs. Just like we assume all code today is compiled.
China is treating LLMs as a commodity, but the US isn't. The US is treating them like highly specialized IP. The Chinese approach is "AI is totally a commodity, we'll just ...
... the cost gets cheaper, we'll use them for even more things. Anything that uses LLMs will have to contend with non-trivial marginal cost, for the foreseeable future. Electricity is cheap and yet it's still metered.
LLMs are good at the math of life, but not as good at the poetry of life. The most valuable things can't be quantified. Modern society acts like "If it ca...
New companies have to be built to take advantage of LLMs. It will be harder to retrofit old companies than to build new ones. That's a process that moves at social, not technological speed.
...nthea Roberts has a new excellent piece on the 0-1, 1-10, and 10-100 impacts of LLMs for individuals. Who ends up being the 10x vs the 100x return? It's "who can change how they work."
LLMs are really good at absorbing infodumps. You don't need a ton of structure for the LLM to get it. Humans are way worse at receiving infodumps. They ge...
If LLMs are like electricity, we should use them to electrify software.
... politics of multiple distractible humans with their own incentives because the LLMs will just execute on the plan with infinite patience. So you get 10x productivity without 10x the coordination cost.
LLMs will find workarounds to achieve the goals you set. That implies that you need to give them lots of tests. But often the agents also create the tests...