Can't count the r's in strawberry. Can't tell time. Can't taste a croissant. An exhaustive catalog of machine incapability.
Taste Is All That's Left | Blog
On what is left to do once the machine can make anything, and why taste is the last craft worth keeping.
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...
Programmable LLM serving | Pie
Pie is a programmable serving system for LLM inference.
The Ultimate Guide to Fine-Tuning LLMs from Basics to Breakthroughs: An Exhaustive Review of Technologies, Research, Best Practices, Applied Research Challenges and Opportunities (Version 1.0)
Clearance of the Confusion: LLM’s base and instruct version — Let’s compare them on reasoning…
When you’re strolling through the market, you’re bound to notice that the same fruit comes in two versions: the base version and 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.
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.
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.
Why Are LLMs Smart?
A popular way to explain how current LLMs work is to say that “all” they do is predict the next most likely word in a sentence.
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
Truth in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
LLMs are scary, but not for the reasons you've been told.
Why do LLMs make stuff up? New research peers under the hood.
Claude's faulty "known entity" neurons sometimes override its "don't answer" circuitry.
ethicalabs-ai/BlossomTuneLLM-MLX
Federated Fine-Tuning of LLMs on Apple Silicon with Flower.ai and MLX-LM
Your LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code.
One of the simplest tests you can run on a database:
