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Everything I want to remember about LLMs and other machine learning stuff
AI stuff
AI Companies Are Pivoting From Creating Gods to Building Products. Good.
Arvind Narayananaisnakeoil.com
AI Horseless Carriages | koomen.dev
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Should the user write the system prompt? Maybe. But we could also write better, individual system prompts for users based on their context and allow them to edit it.
Building and evaluating AI Agents — Sayash Kapoor, AI Snake Oil
youtube.comWhat to keep in mind as an AI Engineer working with agents
(How) Do LLMs Reason/Plan? (Talk given at Microsoft Research; 4/11/25)
youtube.comVery interesting insights in how reasoning models work. He argues that the intermediate "reasoning traces" (e.g., chains of thought) produced by LLMs are not necessarily meaningful or reliable, and that these traces can be misleading or simply stylistic rather than substantive.
AGI is not a milestone because it is not actionable. A company declaring it has achieved, or is about to achieve, AGI has no implications for how businesses should plan, what safety interventions we need, or how policymakers should react. What should businesses and policy makers do instead?
Businesses should not rush to adopt half-baked AI products.... See more
Businesses should not rush to adopt half-baked AI products.... See more
Sayash Kapoor • AGI is not a milestone
Because if you strip LLMs to their essence, they are just a much better way of using statistics to aggregate human intelligence and connect everything we’ve all done together to get more use out of it.
Sari Azout • Becoming unLLMable
Full text in my email
did your boss ever have to send you a memo demanding that you use a smartphone? Was there a performance review requiring you to use Slack? I'm actually old enough that I was at different workplaces when they started using spreadsheets and email and the web, and I can tell you, they absolutely didn't have to drive adoption by making people fill out ... See more
Anil Dash • "AI-first" is the new Return To Office - Anil Dash
On the other side: There is often resistance to new tech, no matter how good or bad. But are top-down mandates the right tool? The overall post is a bit toxic but the core idea has merit.