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The best way I’ve come to describe LLMs is as an ambitious, occasionally bewilderingly stupid but always incredibly hard working junior employee.

You have to watch what it’s doing. And you can’t let it take out into territory you don’t understand, because it will fuck up off leash. But it will thanklessly iterate revision after revision in the way one would ordinarily do with a team, but now don’t need to for tasks that would bore them.



My mental model is a very smart and interesting stranger at a bar.

Sometimes detail accuracy is sacrificed in service of a good story. Sometimes they simply full of shit and double down when pushed.




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