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The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway.
I almost agree with all of the LLM critics, yet I still use LLMs a lot. I know this sounds like I am delusional, but I don't think I am alone with it.

The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway.
I almost agree with all of the LLM critics, yet I still use LLMs a lot. I know this sounds like I am delusional, but I don't think I am alone with it.

The most important thing when working with LLMs
Blog post: The most important thing when working with LLMs by Steve Klabnik

How To Write With An LLM
Two rules keep an LLM from pasteurizing your writing: never take a word it suggests, and never let it encourage you. Then hand it all the tedious work.

How LLMs are and are not like the brain
Hi from buttondown! At the bottom of this newsletter is a bit of administrivia about the new platform How LLMs are and are not like the brain Beneath all the...

There's Something Fundamentally Wrong With LLMs
LLMs aren't trained on the "vast majority of speech," experts warn, a major blind spot that could have sweeping consequences.


Dan Shipper 📧 on Twitter / X
this is true and is a big reason why you don’t need to be a highly technical researcher to use LLMs in surprising and novel ways https://t.co/TuxNzXzToU— Dan Shipper 📧 (@danshipper) July 27, 2025
Cameron Berg on Twitter / X
New paper: we found a pain direction in 25 open LLMs. It's distinct from fear and negative valence, and it fires for harm to the model but not to the user. Turn it up and models press a button to make it stop, even when the button deletes the user's files or their kids' photos.🧵 pic.twitter.com/8O7RyHdcmE— Cameron Berg (@camhberg) September 18, 2026
LLM APIs are a Synchronization Problem
Maybe the LLM message APIs should be rethought as a synchronization problem.

How Do We Talk about LLMs?
By Jim Clifford It is never fun to watch friends argue. Generative AI has created multiple fractures across our universities and the community of historians. The stakes are high and we are all deal…

I read this result as: LLMs do more bullshit citations, name-dropping without engaging.
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Citing Less Critically: #LLMs Reshape the Rhetoric and Reach of #Scientific #Citation (New Research Article (preprint); via @arxiv.bsky.social) arxiv.org/abs/2609.01432 #scholcomm #citations #libraries #AI #GenAI