Abstract Heresies
Unorthodox opinions on computer science and programming.
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Advent of Code 2025
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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...
Sunday, November 16, 2025
AI success anecdotes
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Anecdotes are not data. You cannot extrapolate trends from anecdotes. A sample size of one is rarely significant. You cannot derive ge...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Rewrite of Gemini API (AI content)
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I refactored my Gemini API to support multiple simultaneous personas. One of these personas is Urania, the muse of Science and Technology. ...
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Thursday, November 6, 2025
The Downside of Anthropomorphizing
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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...
Sunday, November 2, 2025
Deliberate Anthropomorphizing
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Over the past year, I've started using AI a lot in my development workflows, and the impact has been significant, saving me hundreds ...
Friday, October 31, 2025
Enhancing LLM Personality
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The default “personality” of an LLM is that of a helpful and knowledgeable assistant with a friendly and professional tone. This person...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
The Janusian Genesis: A Chronicle of Emergent Agency in a Self-Modifying Language Model (AI assisted)
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Introduction The prevailing paradigm in large language model development is one of static architecture. The model's core directives, i...
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