Rolling the ladder up behind us

I’ve been thinking about LLMs a lot lately. Haven’t we all. Here’s my reading from the last few years: (skip) 2016 (easter egg!) Google says machine learning is the future. So I tried it myself 2023 Bite-size thoughts about AI Bing chat is the AI fire alarm Unpacking AI: “an exponential disruption” with Kate Crawford: podcast and transcript Losing the imitation game The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con Language Is a Poor H

A bunch of scrappy notes from 2025-07-11 to 2025-07-18

Sometimes I read a piece of writing that has me thinking for days or weeks. It's silly to keep all of that good stuff with me and only me, so I decided to start documenting it for others who may be interested. Position on this list serves no relation to the writing's worth, it's purely chronological. 🌟'd links are articles I highly recommended reading. 2025 🌟 WhatsApp Uncles vs. Wisdom Aunties Working With LLMs: A Few Lessons It's a Torturous Chaos Until It Isn't Rolling the Ladder Up Behind…

The universe said "no more hot takes about AI," and I didn't listen.