We’ve entered the 4th year of the Slop Wars. We have colorful short-hand like clanker, vibe-code, one-shot, and you’re absolutely right!. These phrases capture the zeitgeist. Emphasis on geist. It’s been more than 3 years since the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which was the inciting incident that’s upended the world economy and changed how we work. This blog post provides some miscellaneous observations on AI, how it’s being used, and how it might be used going forward. I’m writing this mostly for myself to organize my thoughts, but it might be useful to others. These ideas are mostly drawn from what I’ve seen at my company, Scholarly. AI as Implementation Detail Between 2023 - 2025, every interface with AI was a chat interface. LLMs are next-token predictors, and the hello world of a next-token predictor is a chat interface. Words go in, words come out. We flew past the Turing Test with hardly a wave. But a chat interface is only one way of interacting with a next-token predictor. As…
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