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LLMs & Agents: How do they Work?

For as much as AI has dramatically changed all of our lives, mine included, I was a bit uneasy that I didn’t really know how they are implemented and how they work. What is thinking and chain-of-thought reasoning? How does it choose a tool? What are parameters, exactly, and why are more of them better? What’s an Agent? What’s MCP?

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Why Doesn't Apple Get AI?

A Few Single-line Stories in Everyday Frustration

“Hey Siri, what’s the weather tomorrow?”

Looks like thunderstorms tomorrow. The high temperature will be 66 degrees, and low will be 33.

So you go outside with an umbrella and a t-shirt only to realize that it’s nearly snowing when you’re out. Why? Because of a chart that looks like this:

“Hey Siri, play Toxic”. And then “Toxic” by Britney Spears plays instead of the one in my library that I already listened to today (BoyWithUke)!

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The Wanting Comes in Waves

Drowning in a Sea of Tokens

It’s no secret that AI-produced slop is filling up social networks, websites, blogs, job search sites, homework. B2B marketers have completely clogged the internets here and - perhaps because they lack the confidence, or just value the convenience - I see clearly AI-produced “personal” content in Slack groups, newsletters, mailing lists and Discords of all shapes and sizes.

And I get it. The pull is undeniable. The magical autocomplete super tempting. I keep trying to resist; when I’m typing out a post I will have Sonnet critique my work and I have to fight taking the suggestions verbatim. To quote the famous Jim Gaffigan: “Hey, that’s something I’d say!”

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