on @svelteradio yesterday i had to justify why frontend engineers should take AI seriously. im like… do you know how much value you being making this stuff usable??
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Hallucination Risk in Generative AI Products and Market Response
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Hallucination is an existential risk to any generative AI product, and people are blindly (irresponsibly?) forging ahead (and we're all tired and wary of "haha this was all AI!" rugpulls). Observing the different reaction to @MetaAI
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Generative AI framing undersells actual capabilities
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Similar issue with "Generative AI" – so hot right now, but this framing is, believe it or not, *underselling* capabilities we are already seeing, and perhaps causing people to work on the wrong things.
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Making the IDE the Prompt: Beyond Traditional Prompt Engineering
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Completely eliminating prompts may not be possible: that is basically solving alignment, and that is AGI-hard (
https://
x.com/swyx/status/15
85810989521379329?lang=en
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Inquiry About LangChain Implementation in Project
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This is awesome! Ooc, are you using langchain under the hood or your own implementation?
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Communication Skills Critical to Success: Speaking, Writing, Ideas
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"Students shouldn't go out into life without the ability to communicate. Your success in life will be determined largely by…
-your ability to speak,
-your ability to write, &
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Prompt Engineering Is a Kludge: Why It’s Just Temporary
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#StableDiffusion2 is all the hotness right now, but there'll be new versions every few months. I wanted to zoom out and talk about the open secret that all AI insiders seem to know: Prompt engineering is just a kludge. Quotes from @gwern
, @sama
, @GaryMarcus
, @josephofiowa
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LangChain Overview by Shubham Saboo Appreciated
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A good overview of LangChain by @Saboo_Shubham_ ! Thanks for the write up 🙂
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InstructGPT/RLHF tuning makes model assume all questions answerable
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My guess is this is InstructGPT/RLHF rather than anything in the pre-training corpus. Tuning implicitly makes it assume all questions are answerable — it sees all text as “ ” and Q/A is a subset of that.
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Why Prompt Engineering and Generative AI Are Overhyped
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Why "Prompt Engineering" and "Generative AI" are overhyped https://
lspace.swyx.io/p/why-prompt-e
ngineering-and-generative
… – Quick recap of @StableDiffusion 2.0 puts & takes
– Why “Prompt Engineering” is a Product Smell
– Why “Generative AI” is underselling the potential