I believe that language models aren’t world models. It’s a weak claim — I’m not saying they’re useless, or that we’re done milking them. It’s also a fuzzy-sounding claim — with its trillion weights, who can prove that there’s something an LLM isn’t a model of?

A great write-up on the “My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts” article, with some really solid thinking on the linguistic & logical shenanigans in AI hype talk.

On the very likely outcomes of the impacts LLMs are having on software engineers and their craft.

Arguments against the use LLMs for homework.