Thomas Ptacek on using LLMs as copyeditors, not as writing assistants: Rule Number One: You may not use a single word an LLM suggests to you. [...] I think that …
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 to write it like you told it
What do you say to someone who wants to write but struggles with writing and is tempted to use an LLM-based chatbot?
LLM-generated skills work, if you generate them afterwards
LLM “skills” are a short explanatory prompt for a particular task, typically bundled with helper scripts. A recent paper showed that while skills are useful to LLMs, LLM-authored skills are not. From the abstract:
Translating non-trivial codebases with Claude
I don’t think it’s [me writing about LLMs] likely to happen anytime soon: I prefer to write about things that I’m excited about.
The Obsidian heads were right.
Compiling knowledge, not retrieving it: a hands-on deep dive into llm-wiki-compiler
The thesis of this piece is simple and uncomfortable: the problem of making an LLM “remember” what you’ve read isn’t solved with more…
The /llms.txt file – llms-txt
A proposal to standardise on using an /llms.txt file to provide information to help LLMs use a website at inference time.
Wikipedia:LLM-assisted translation
This guideline applies to machine translation tools that include a large language model ("LLM"). Assume that it applies to any online translation tool unless you have confirmed there is no LLM element.
Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models
Text generated by large language models (LLMs)[a] often violates several of Wikipedia's core content policies. For this reason, the use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited,[b] save for these two exceptions:
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.
Copyrightability of LLM-generated code: Can we license “vibe code” into Free Software? - FSFE
The use of large language models (“LLMs”) has exploded in recent years, including in the generation of source code. But even as their usage gains popularit...
i can’t help but think we’re far from nailing memory systems this one here is extremely interesting. two LLMs at once, one just managing and surfacing memory for the other
Asa
I'm not a fan of the decoupled 'memory retrieval → task execution' loop, so my agent has a subconscious background thread that looks for relevant, unique memory context in its experiential database while it runs and injects it on top of the live context window.
