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Horseless Carriages

Whenever a new technology is invented, the first tools built with it inevitably fail because they mimic the old way of doing things. “Horseless carriage” refers to the early motor car designs that borrowed heavily from the horse-drawn carriages that preceded them. Here’s an example of an 1803 Steam Carriage design I found on

System Prompts and User Prompts

Viewed from the outside, large language models are actually really simple. They read in a stream of words, the “prompt”, and then start predicting the words, one after another, that are likely to come next, the “response”.

Millions of Gmail users have had this experience and I'm sure many of them have concluded that AI isn't smart enough to write good emails yet.

I noticed something interesting the other day: I enjoy using AI to build software more than I enjoy using most AI applications--software built with AI.

When I use AI to build software I feel like I can create almost anything I can imagine very quickly. AI feels like a power tool. It's a lot of fun.

Many AI apps don't feel like that. Their AI features... See more