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!

11 months 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…

11 months 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…

11 months 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…

12 months 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…

12 months 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