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...f it's the other way around, and it's mostly code, with a little bit of LLMs as magical duct tape? The former has the prompt injection problem, fundamentally. The LLM is in the driver's seat, and the LLM can be tricked. The latter has the potentia...
...n of human agency. It can be, if it's a minor component of a larger system, the magical duct tape. But if the LLM is in the driver's seat, if it's treated like an oracle, then it has absorbed some of the human's agency.
...et that could be made tinkerable. But LLMs are squishy! They can squish things! Magical duct tape.
...k for a JSON representation, most LLMs today will do a great job! With this new magical duct tape, can we make tools that allow humans to act like humans, but with the benefits of scaling that only computers can offer?
...employees are adopting it aggressively: "I use it all the time for everything." Magical duct tape is hard to use in a structured way (e.g. top down) but it's easy to use by anyone to jury rig anything. AI is the most individualistic disruptive tec...
LLMs are magical duct tape that are made out of crystallized society-scale intuition.
Machine intuition is super useful as magical duct tape! These are machine intuition but we use them for machine reasoning. LLMs seem like they're reasoning, but it's really just absurdly good intuition an...
...and the code. End user 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...
...ng. 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. Chat bots are a very natural medium for LLMs, and humans have been willing to meet them where they are so far. L...
...in a formal, computer-friendly way at scale in the past. But LLMs, as a kind of magical duct tape, allow you to take this baseline for granted.
...urse, it will likely get radically better from here. This means we can now take magical duct tape for granted. The disruption will come from a post-AI entity that takes AI for granted.
...they can have very different personalities. LLMs are a theory-of-mind in a box, magical duct tape you can put onto anything to help it interact with things in the people category. We tend to assume a human-style intelligence in systems we categori...
...e more likely to be viable in whatever context is thrown at them. LLMs are like magical duct tape. Modular systems seem to have an edge in this new world. If you know the world will change but you don't know precisely how, modularize.