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@simonw
) on 23 years (!!) of blogging. Really excellent LLM blog, I sub & read everything: https://
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@karpathy
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Celebrating Simon Willison’s 23 Years of Excellent LLM Blogging
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LLM’s Confused Reaction to Trump’s Presidential Status
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Half-related I remember a very funny chain of thought when the LLM (can't recall which anymore) spent almost 1 minute in shock that Trump is now the president. It kept re-checking that this is true because it thought it was for sure Biden. Must be very confusing to be an LLM 🙂
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Manual slide creation frustration without AI cursor tool
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Making slides manually feels especially painful now that you know Cursor for slides should exist but doesn’t.
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Attention optimization over truth in reinforcement learning systems
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It's because the objective is not truth but attention and they get RL'd by it, so they are a lot more optimal than you give them credit for.
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Product Integration with LLM Technology
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Nice exactly, good / clean summary. “Does your product speak LLM?”
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Software Inertia and LLM Adaptation: UI Automation vs Legacy Systems
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Imo you are also dramatically under-estimating inertia, including in Software (e.g. see pervasive use of COBOL to this day). The more general formulation looks something like this. Do LLMs adapt to all existing software? (e.g. Operator seeing UI screens, making clicks)
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Cursor’s Code Interface and Natural Language Interoperability Capabilities
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Possibly I agree – in Cursor you're still pretty much looking at code just as before, too. My point is that "add mountains in the background and make the punch look faster and more intense" would just work. It's less about the input to the human and more about interoperability.
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LLMs and Documentation Should Avoid Excessive Step-by-Step Lists
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Yeah exactly, I weep every time an LLM gives me a bullet point list of the 10 things to click in the UI to do this or that. Or when any docs do the same. "How to upload a file to an S3 bucket in 10 easy steps!"