Mary Meeker used to be famous for her annual “The State of the Internet” report. She has now done one on AI. All of the graphs are pointing upwards.
I’ve seen saying that Gen AI does “sort of” reasoning, but saying “simulated reasoning” is much more elegant. I’m going to start using this expression.
Roger Penrose thinks that intelligence is not the result of computation.
This three and a half hour video by Andrej Karpathy is a wonderful overview of how LLMs work and the current status. It took me a couple of days to watch and study it in depth.
Claude’s system prompt is huge! It contains a lot of interesting stuff. I read it and made notes.
MCPs are fairly simple, providing a bridge between the chat client and other applications. I’m not sure what my own use case would be for them as my use cases don’t actually involve the chat client.
Willison reminds us not to confuse vibe coding with professional software development.
A great overview of ways to use AI, although I knew most of it already. It gave me some ideas.
A great article filled with Simon’s deep experience in coding with LLMs.
A few tips from Ali Abdaal, including the idea of having a writing project which makes information about you, articles you’ve written before, and preferences, available to the LLM so it can write specifically for you.