Abstract Heresies

The Advent of Code will begin in a couple of hours. I've prepared a Common Lisp project to hold the code. You can clone it from ht...

Anecdotes are not data. You cannot extrapolate trends from anecdotes. A sample size of one is rarely significant. You cannot derive ge...

I refactored my Gemini API to support multiple simultaneous personas. One of these personas is Urania, the muse of Science and Technology. ...

As I mentioned in a previous post, I get a kick out of interacting with LLMs that appear to have quirky personalities. The mechanism by...

Over the past year, I've started using AI a lot in my development workflows, and the impact has been significant, saving me hundreds ...

The default “personality” of an LLM is that of a helpful and knowledgeable assistant with a friendly and professional tone. This person...

  Introduction The prevailing paradigm in large language model development is one of static architecture. The model's core directives, i...