Humanities mode collapse
If we're increasingly consuming ideas from the same few systems, are we slowly being trained to speak and think in a particular manner, shaped by a handful of powerful organisations?
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If we're increasingly consuming ideas from the same few systems, are we slowly being trained to speak and think in a particular manner, shaped by a handful of powerful organisations?
We are getting dramatically better at producing software whilst removing the activity through which we learned to produce good software.
Notes on a paper that compiles natural-language function specs into tiny local LoRA adapters, turning a foundation model into a one-time tool builder instead of a per-call solver.
A note on the shift from chat completions to agents that return finished work, and what that means for builders outside frontier labs.
A follow-up on the difficulties of choosing a startup idea, and how I eventually picked a direction.