Andrew McCluskey

Using LLM products today feels a lot like using early cars in the 1800s: clearly magical, clearly going to change the world, and really hard to drive.

The first cars didn’t have steering wheels (they hadn’t been invented yet), so you’d steer them with a big lever called a tiller. The problem with tillers is that they are imprecise, which made... See more

In New York, people speak fast. In the American South, they speak slowly. Both of them are a form of politeness, understood in a different way. In New York, you speak quickly because you respect the value of the other person’s time and you don’t want to take up too much of it. In the South, you speak slowly because you want to respect the person by... See more

Did they have to turn into a panopticon, where each of us is prisoner and guard simultaneously?