Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code

Notes on how to use LLMs in your product.

Pretty much every company I know is looking for a way to benefit from Large Language Models. Even if their executives don’t see much applicability, their investors likely do, so they’re staring at the blank page nervously trying to come up with an idea. It’s straightforward to make an argument for LLMs improving internal efficiency somehow, but it’s much harder to describe a believable way that LLMs will make your product more useful to your customers.

Designing a Language by Asking the Language Models — using an LLM panel as a syntax usability lab (from the kaish project)

Designing a Language by Asking the Language Models — using an LLM panel as a syntax usability lab (from the kaish project) · GitHub

Large language model

A large language model (LLM) is a neural network trained on a vast amount of text for natural language processing tasks, especially language generation. LLMs can typically generate, summarize, translate, and analyze text in many contexts, and are a foundational technology behind modern chatbots.[1] Biased or inaccurate training data can make an LLM's output less reliable.[2]

Maintaining the love for coding in the time of AI

By Alex Band Over the last year, we have seen the profound effects Large Language Models (LLMs) have on our open-source software work at NLnet Labs. These can be grouped into two main areas: community contributions and security reports. Before we dive into this topic, let me first give

Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms

Abstract. Large language models (LLMs) are a potential substitute for human-generated data and knowledge resources. This substitution, however, can present

The Case Against LLMs as Rerankers

Authors: Apoorva Joshi, Zhenmei Shi, Akshay Goindani, Hong LiuResearch Leads: Zhenmei Shi, Akshay Goindani, Hong Liu Large language models are increasingly being used for a broad range of tasks, in…

LLMs are good at playing you

Large language models seem just like humans, but some of this is in our heads.

Hypothesis generation and updating in large language models

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly help people solve problems, from debugging code to repairing machinery. This process requires generating plausible hypotheses from partial descriptions,...

ToolSandbox: A Stateful, Conversational, Interactive Evaluation Benchmark for LLM Tool Use Capabilities

Recent large language models (LLMs) advancements sparked a growing research interest in tool assisted LLMs solving real-world challenges…

The LLM Reasoning Debate Heats Up

Three recent papers examine the robustness of reasoning and problem-solving in large language models

Things we learned about LLMs in 2024

A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past …

The Return of Language-Oriented Programming | Middle of Nowhere

I’ve been wondering what LLMs mean for language design and implementation. Some believe that, because language models are obviously trained on existing content, they are inherently less capable of assisting users with new programming languages. Intuitively this makes sense. However:

Programming Language Design in the Era of LLMs: A Return to Mediocrity?

The most exciting part of Programming Languages (PL) research for me has always been in Programming Language Design.

Training Large Language Models with Interpreter Feedback using WebAssembly

A fast, local, and secure approach to training LLMs for code with WebAssembly and interpreter-based rewards

Fast and Hard Code

People pick languages differently with LLMs.

Alex Veremeyenko on Twitter / X

what are large language models actually doing?i read the 2025 textbook "Foundations of Large Language Models" by tong xiao and jingbo zhu and for the first time, i truly understood how they work.here’s everything you need to know about llms in 3 minutes↓ pic.twitter.com/OeYLuU3cWh— Alex Veremeyenko (@alex_verem) July 26, 2025