Abstract Heresies

              Unorthodox opinions on computer science and programming.

Friday, October 17, 2025

A Self-actualized LLM (AI content)

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I added five tools to the LLM agent that allow it to introspect its own system instruction: appendSystemInstruction, deleteSystemInstru...
Friday, October 10, 2025

A Couple of More AI Apps

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I deployed three additional AI powered apps. Common Lisp Coach — enter your Lisp code and get concrete suggestions for improvement. LLM...
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Thursday, October 9, 2025

Common Lisp Syntax Highlighter

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I often quote snippets of Common Lisp in my blog. I thought it'd be cool if I could colorize them, so I generated this app that takes...
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Friday, October 3, 2025

LLM Prompt Fixed Point: the Ultimate Prompt

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Suppose we direct the LLM to improve a prompt. Suppose we direct the LLM to improve the very prompt that directs the LLM to improve prompts...
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Thursday, October 2, 2025

Is Worse Really Better?

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In Richard Gabriel's essay “Worse is Better ”, Gabriel contrasts the “MIT approach” of designing for correctness and completenes...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Using an LLM on the Advent of Code

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I wanted to investigate further generation of Common Lisp code using an LLM. For the problem set I decided to use last year's Adven...
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Friday, September 26, 2025

A Prompt to Create a Starter Common Lisp Project

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I decided to try some prompt engineering. The following prompt will query the user for a project name and instantiate a project in ~/quic...
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