What Jamie Brandon thinks about LLMs
Programmer based in Vancouver who writes at scattered-thoughts.net about databases, programming language design and developer tools; author of the Imp, Dida and Zest language experiments.
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5 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Jamie Brandon has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe improvements must surely tail off at some point, but I see no reason why that point has to come any time soon.
↗Synthetic sagasscattered-thoughts.net 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsBut they are terrible at making decisions. They have the worst judgement.
↗Artificial adventuresscattered-thoughts.net 1st of 3 in this piece
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Our readingFrontier AI models essentially never fabricate outright false facts, unlike smaller models
Their wordsI haven't seen anything I would call a hallucination from the frontier models.
↗Artificial adventuresscattered-thoughts.net 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe subscriptions to frontier models are a very good deal, but it looks like they are being phased out now that everyone is hooked.
↗Artificial adventuresscattered-thoughts.net 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsBoth estimates make me think that the concern about global energy demand for LLMs is over-blown.
↗0057: consulting, zest progress, reads that lasted, books, linksscattered-thoughts.net