What Nelson Elhage thinks about LLMs

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Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.

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2 dated positions, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Nelson Elhage has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 27 Jan 2025

   Our readingCurrent AI models still fall short of expert human performance.

   Their wordsAlso, current models, while impressive, still fall well short of expert human performance.

   ↗Building personal software with Claudeblog.nelhage.com 1st of 3 in this piece

3. 27 Jan 2025

   Our readingAI tooling and interface design lags behind the underlying models' actual capabilities.

   design

   Their wordsOverall, though, this experience reinforced my belief that the tooling and interface design around LLMs is lagging way behind the actual capabilities, and is an area of active experimentation and development, even aside from any future model improvements.

   ↗Building personal software with Claudeblog.nelhage.com 2nd of 3 in this piece