This implies that academia would be more scandalized by papers being AI-assisted than them being merely false. … That is, regrettably, very plausible to me.
@patio11
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LLMs enable trivial click-through tasks via text messages
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I think LLMs are such an interesting tool to build into very complicated apps because the first use cases people will do are the things they can already do ~trivially by clicking through screens, except now with a text message form factor.
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Mercury’s Command feature tested with wire transfer, works on first try
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Took Mercury's new Command feature out for a test spin with approximately the scariest thing you can do in a bank account, asking for a wire out, and it worked on the first try. Nice UX on upgrading from chatting-with-an-LLM interface to embedded this-is-fully-engineered flow.
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Claude message replaces SQL for trivial text edits
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Probably even better now that trivial edits to it are a message to Claude away versus having to write a SQL query to do equivalent of a one character/line insert/edit.
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Handlebars templating can’t do string manipulation for LLM index
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"What kind of programmable automated system can't do string manipulation!?" Handlebars templating, apparently. (I'm building an LLM-available index into some of my sites to have various tools able to read status of pieces w/o needing direct DB access.)
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Dumb system apologizes to smart system in 2026 programming
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I just caused an automated system which is dumb to apologize-in-advance to an automated system which is smart. (~ "The system which generates this file can't do string manipulation. You can, though, so to succeed you will want to… Sorry about extra work.") Programming in 2026.
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Using LLMs to substantiate private allegations with public evidence
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I have a talk at Manifest about ParaLLM Construction coming up, about recent reporting I did which used LLMs to find public evidence substantiating (and letting me use) private allegations.
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LLM finds forum copy, refuses info on mild claim question
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An LLM found a copy in a forum and then went into Whoops You Are Not Authorized To Access That Info mode when I asked a very mild question about a claim made.
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Caution needed in interim years for biorisk despite potential gains
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And there is a real chance that powerful capabilities make us better in the long term on biorisk but I’d really like to see the long-term arrive so, in these weird interim years when we have humans eyeballing proteins, let’s be a wee bit careful.
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Manual transcription of bank wire details avoided by Claude in 2026
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Me: Happy to upload our bank's standard letter.
TA: No it has to be on *our* standard format.
Me, twitching: You want me to manually transcribe approximately 100 characters into boxes on a flat PDF where one being wrong causes wire misdelivery. That is… oh it's 2026. Claude, go