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Simon Willison

What Simon Willison thinks about LLMs

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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

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  1. Our readingPrompt injection has no equivalent of parameterized queries: there is no reliable way to tell a language model which text is data and which is instructions.

    Their wordsProblem is, you can solve SQL injection by parameterizing your queries. You can't do that with LLMs.

    ↗Simon Willison: Engineering practices that make coding agents work - The Pragmatic Summityoutube.com 10th of 18 in this recording

    prompt injection

    Interesting
  2. 15 months earlier

  3. Our readingConcerns about the energy cost of an individual LLM prompt are no longer credible, though the environmental impact of the AI datacenter buildout remains a real worry.

    Their wordsThere’s still plenty to worry about with respect to the environmental impact of the great AI datacenter buildout, but a lot of the concerns over the energy cost of individual prompts are no longer credible.

    ↗Things we learned about LLMs in 2024simonwillison.net

    data centersenergy

    Interesting