The Hubris of Scale: A Lesson From Junkmail Detection

5 months ago

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

Beyond Prompting: The Other Ways to Influence LLM output

5 months ago

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

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

5 months ago

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

Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold

6 months ago

I improvised music to go along with reading The Hobbit to my children. Grab a copy!

The Magic Promise of Inference-Time Compute

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago

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

The Tyranny of Chat Interfaces to LLMs

6 months ago

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

AI Videocasts and Digging Your Way Out of a Hole

7 months ago

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

What are AI Agents? A Precise Answer

7 months ago

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

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

7 months ago

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