The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway.

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.

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.

I Think I Have LLM Burnout

I didn't expect to get so tired of reading LLM output.

If You’re Going To Defend AI And Whine About Its Critics, You Should Probably Be Honest About Its Actual Harms

I think this recent post by AI industry CEO Matt Shumer is worth a read. In it, he basically explains how quickly LLMs (large language models) are evolving to supplant many developers and prog…

Why LLMs Are Bad Writers But Good Editors

my new Atlantic essay + Claude editor setup

I’m Tired of Talking About AI

I don’t want to talk about LLMs anymore.

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)

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...

One year as an AI Engineer: The 5 biggest misconceptions about LLM reliability I've encountered

535 votes, 59 comments. After spending a year building evaluation frameworks and debugging production LLM systems, I've noticed the same…

Fine-Tuning LLMs is a Huge Waste of Time

People think they can use Fine-Tune for Knowledge Injection. People are Wrong

LLMs and self-referentiality

I woke up yesterday with the following thoughts, which are probably either obvious or dumb. A central thesis that many readers, including me, took from Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel Escher Bach when y…

The scientific case for being nice to your chatbot

New research confirms that LLMs often perform better when you encourage them. But why?

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.

Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious

Philosophers said the paper’s argument is sound, but that “all these arguments have been presented years and years ago.”