LLMs
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Brad DeLong quoted
Economics professor at the University of California
Their wordsThat creation and transmission of meaning through the warping of language into new forms is not something an LLM, for which all there is is the text, can do.
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- BD
Brad DeLong quoted
Our readingLLMs will not give rise to a Digital God.
Their wordsIt is not because it will give rise to a Digital God. To think that is still seems to me to be a category error of the same kind as thinking that a steamship is the same order of being as a dragon.
↗CROSSPOST: JOHN GRUBER & BEN THOMPSON: Meanness & Claudebraddelong.substack.com
- BD
Brad DeLong quoted
Our readingAs LLMs are enmeshed in human cognition, they increasingly do not act as stochastic parrots.
Their wordsProperly trained, RAGed, and harnessed LLMs may still be stochastic parrot, but as they are enmeshed in the spheres of human cognition and public reason they increasingly do not act as stochastic parrot.
↗CROSSPOST: JOHN GRUBER & BEN THOMPSON: Meanness & Claudebraddelong.substack.com
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- AK
Andrej Karpathy quoted
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla
Their wordsDusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*.
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- GO
Gergely Orosz quoted
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer
Their wordseven “artificial intelligence” was a stretch given LLMs are probability distributions and do not meet our common understanding of “intelligence.”
- GO
Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsHallucination is a feature not a bug; generating the next token and the next also.
- GO
Gergely Orosz quoted
Our readingModern software engineering is no longer done without LLMs and will no longer be done without them.
Their wordsLike it or not, modern sw engineering is no longer done without LLMs (AI) and will no longer be done without.
- BD
Brad DeLong quoted
Our readingLLMs are a newer, smaller shoggoth that condense human writing into useful but lossy summaries.
Their wordsLLMs are a newer, smaller shoggoth. They condense human writing into useful but lossy summaries, no lossier than prices, bureaucratic categories, & opinion polls.
↗Henry Farrell of Johns Hopkins Agora Comes to Berkeley: FOG & FLATLANDSbraddelong.substack.com
- JP
Josh Puckett quoted
Designer, advisor and investor
Their wordsAs fast as the hyperscalers are training LLMs on ever-expanding datasets, I think much of what matters lives in stories, mistakes, or habits of individual practitioners.
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Noah Smith quoted
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
Their wordsthe big AI labs are better at predicting the future than you are, because they have access to AI forecasting models that are better than anything anyone outside the labs has access to.
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- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsIf you're stuck at "AI is just another tool", you're making a category error.
- GO
Gergely Orosz quoted
Our readingMachines are not conscious
Their wordsAn LLM is as conscious as my screwdriver, lawn mower or smartphone is - all tools we build to do X or Y.
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Paul Graham quoted
Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb
Their wordsThe skeptics who say AI can't conjecture, can't theorize, and can't explain are describing last spring's models.
- RN
Ramez Naam quoted
Author and clean-energy investor who has been publishing…
Their wordsThat doesn't tell us that LLMs are conscious, though. They have very different architecture than human or animal brains. It's far from a slam dunk.
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Anil Seth quoted
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience…
Our readingMachines are not conscious
Their wordsMy credence in consciousness for current LLMs being very close to zero
- AK
Andrej Karpathy quoted
Our readingLLMs will do more legwork autonomously
Their wordsAs LLMs get better, they will do more and more of the legwork autonomously, and a lot more of our work will rise up the abstractions into oversight and understanding.
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsLLM bots are talking in my replies, this site is having a real problem blocking these accounts.
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- TB
Thorsten Ball quoted
Co-founder of Amp and co-host of the Raising an Agent podcast
Their wordsTo repeat: reconsider everything you thought about these models 4-6 months ago.
- TB
Thorsten Ball quoted
Their wordsBiggest source of confusion is that everyone - spent wildly different # of tokens in last 2 years - works in diff codebases - with diff languages - and diff requirements - in diff teams - with diff processes - in diff companies and then says "models are [good|bad]"
- ZM
Zvi Mowshowitz quoted
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase
Their wordsIf we’re going to keep getting close to four frontier model releases per month (Astra, Sol, Fable and Opus) then I’m realistically not going to be able to read all four cards cover to cover.
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- MG
Molly Graham quoted
Co-founder of Glue Club and The Guild
Their wordsLike as of right now, like there is not a lot of data, although you may have more than I do that says that AI is genuinely taking jobs away.
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 5th of 20 in this recording
- MG
Molly Graham quoted
Their wordsI always think like AI needs the same coaching and training that a human does right it needs context it needs onboarding it needs all of these things
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 8th of 20 in this recording
- MG
Molly Graham quoted
Their wordsyou hear all these stories about like companies like counting tokens and having token leaderboards and it's like it brings me back to the days when people were like counting cars in a parking lot and Slack bubbles and lines of code, right? Which we all know is a really bad way to manage people.
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 11th of 20 in this recording
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Molly Graham quoted
Their wordsit is a slow takeoff and it isn't like the future is next day next next month like it is it's going to take years to really understand what this new tool this new technology all these fun interns can actually do
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 19th of 20 in this recording
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Simon Willison quoted
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette
Their wordsThese two new models, when paired with their respective coding agent harnesses, improved from “often make mistakes” to “reliable enough to use on a day-to-day basis”.
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Simon Willison quoted
Our readingFierce competition means the best AI model in the world gets knocked off the top spot quickly.
Their wordsWhen you release the best model in the world, it’s going get knocked off that pedestal pretty quickly. The competition is so fierce that you won’t get a long time at the top
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- MS
M.G. Siegler quoted
Technology writer of Spyglass
Their wordsAnd in the Age of AI, such information becomes potentially more interesting and powerful. If you can pull up the sushi spot you want to recommend to someone via a natural language query – perhaps even with only your voice – that's clearly going to be useful.
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Zvi Mowshowitz quoted
Their wordsThe writing is good. I am curious how much the writing and talk are ‘the things people pick up on quickly’ versus things that matter a lot. My guess is they are both.
↗Claude Opus 5.5 Should Raise Your Ambitionsthezvi.substack.com
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Simon Willison quoted
Their wordsOur industry is destabilized in a way nobody’s experienced since the advent of the personal computer.
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Simon Willison quoted
Their wordsEverything we do with frontier models today, in a few years we’ll be doing instantaneously and for free.