LLM: Learningful Links and Musings

Some brief meta: On AI, dispositionally, I’m somewhere in between “all of this is crap” and “the singularity is upon us”. In 2026, to borrow a friend’s metaphor, we get to work with fun aliens. They have structurally poor epistemics, poor taste, they’ll shit all over your codebase if you let them. But, if you give them a harness and the right context, they can be scarily good at knowledge work tasks. The aliens’ eagerness is a great match for my inertia to start (or resume) working on something, so on balance I feel more capable with them. I prefer to run my own copy of the alien on my own computer, but in various circumstances I’ll rent someone else’s bigger, smarter alien. A lot of my interest reflects this preference order. Given the topic, echoing Dynomight: I, a real human, wrote every word of this post. (Same for all posts on this blog.) Many of these links came from friends. I am grateful but did bad job keeping track of what came from whom. If you’d like ‘via’ credit, please…