LLM

The Hubris of Scale: A Lesson From Junkmail Detection

Scale won't solve every problem, and won't even solve the main problem of today's AI!

1 year ago

Beyond Prompting: The Other Ways to Influence LLM output

Beyond prompting, learn every other thing that you can do to an LLM, like the sampler, runtime modification, optimization, and…

1 year ago

Why Social Media Search is So Bad, and How to Fix It

Social media search is terrible because it's a harder problem than web search. Yet I implemented my own search engine…

1 year ago

The Magic Promise of Inference-Time Compute

How much is it worth to solve humanity's biggest problems? If only there was someone to pay! Agents may enable…

1 year ago

AI’s Hardest Problem: Teaching Us to Use It Better

Not only is AI smarter than us in most ways, but it is so much smarter than us that we…

1 year ago

The Tyranny of Chat Interfaces to LLMs

So much of our interaction with LLMs is via a singular chat box. It doesn't have to be that way.…

1 year ago

AI Videocasts and Digging Your Way Out of a Hole

AI gets into a rut as you talk longer, as I found out when I worked with ChatGPT to debug…

1 year ago

What are AI Agents? A Precise Answer

What are AI Agents? Although it seems every bit of software claims to be an agent, there are real agentic…

1 year ago

The Archive pt 3: Don’t Hack Away on Vibes Alone

Let's not hack away on The Archive on vibes alone; let's evaluate our code. Using Promptfoo!

1 year ago

Why Programming Benefits the Most from AI Assistance

There's a few reasons that programming is best suited to using AI, but mostly it is that AI is simply…

1 year ago