!! This blog has since moved to https://not-an-llm.com/. The Bearblog version is not maintained. Hi. I'm a hooman bean. Posts are all written by-hand b...
!! This blog post has since moved to https://not-an-llm.com/the-anti-game . The Bearblog version is not maintained. With The Game , you avoid thinking about The Game, otherwise you lose The Game. With The Anti-Game 1 , you avoid forgetting The Anti-Game, otherwise you lose The Anti-Game. Therefore, you are always in a state of losing one of the two variants of The Game, as thinking about one…
!! This blog post has since moved to https://not-an-llm.com/humanity-is-self-deprecating . The Bearblog version is not maintained. A year ago agents were good, but comparing them today is a folly. Today, agents effectively replace junior developers and companies have realized that. I am not arguing for or against this; it is merely a fact. Hiring of juniors and even mid-level developers has slowed…
!! This blog post has since moved to https://not-an-llm.com/meat-based-llm-proxies . The Bearblog version is not maintained. I am noticing one thing becoming more prominent over time; meat-based LLM proxies. They'll talk to you as if they're human, except all of their words are written by an LLM. Anything you tell them, they feed to the same LLM and send you the response. Effectively, you end up…