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...st not always hitting it out of the park like they do for React style code. The meta insight is that LLMs' ability to write code on demand is not some smooth distribution over types of code, but spiky based on which types of code are ...
In an infinitely deep meta game you can easily lose yourself. At each step the most pressing, and easiest, move is to go one ply deeper. But as you do you'll be gradually forge...
...thers, and dangerous things likely lurk outside your vision. What you need is a meta-lens: a lens that inherently includes a diversity of lenses. For example, my friend Anthea Roberts' Six Faces. A meta-lense helps you look at a probl...
...ex phenomena. Dragonfly eyes have myriad lenses in every direction. In Anthea's metaphor, that gives you a multi-faceted understanding of the world around you. This meta-approach is the best one in complex domains. Doing this kind of ...
Being a very good generalist is a form of meta expertise. In a new space, how do you ramp up quickly, find parallels, hold your knowledge lightly, be curious and open to learning?
...alist with expertise in a single topic has a T-shape. But a generalist who is a meta-expert–able to go deep on multiple different topics–has more of a comb shape. The latter is way harder to accomplish in practice. But LLMs make it ea...
I think the Meta Llama open memo is destined to be a classic. "First, to ensure that we have access to the best technology and aren't locked into a closed ecosystem o...
...to step adjacent to it to benefit from whoever wins. Related to the "the second meta move to win a gold rush is to design things for a world where there's lots of gold in the economy"
Meta-ecosystems are powerful forces. There are ecosystems (a single platform) and meta-ecosystems (multiple platforms that are all affiliated and act, in ...
...unlikely to succeed. But the overall system that includes r-selected items, the meta-idea, the swarm, is antifragile.
...! It requires taste and judgment to design it properly. A rare skill! A kind of meta-engineering ability. Sometimes a system that wasn't designed to be extensible can be extended. E.g. some very popular games have very active game mod...
...se cases that are missing not technology but a schelling point. If there were a meta platform that everyone was willing to trust nearly completely to upload their data to, then a number of simple use cases become viable with only a li...
Google Search is a meta-product. Its quality and usefulness isn't just a reflection of the effort invested by its builders. The quality and usefulness is also in the quality...
...binatorial possibility of all of the recipes in the entire ecosystem. This is a meta-product that grows in strength the more that a given user uses the system, but also the more that the ecosystem grows. Over time, each user's use cas...
... one horcrux of yourself in another system, but thousands. If one service was a meta-service, which allowed you to use your emails in lots of contexts safely, that's probably the one you'd sync with.
... all! The entire point of the browser is not any individual experience, but the meta experience. That you can teleport to anything you can imagine, safely and with zero friction. That's impossible to show with a single page, or even a...
...terally got paid for this skill! The people who find LLMs most useful today are meta-experts: generalists. People who play "out of position" a lot. Asking a domain expert if an LLM gives a useful answer in their domain of expertise is...
...ig and new enough to be hard to grab onto. The only way to grab onto it is with metaphors, but those can be confusing. "It's a metaphorical equivalent of the browser for a new kind of web-like fabric of experiences." "Oh, OK, I get it...
...ject grows in complication and smothers itself under its own weight. A powerful meta strategy: take big, ambitious visions from previous failed mega-projects… and approach them in a "lateral thinking with weathered technology" mindset...
The web was enabled by a totally new type of meta-application: the browser. The browser was unlike other applications because it was fundamentally open-ended. For the first decade of the web, "What's...