Month: January 2026
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The Categorical Error
In the ever pleasant environs of coastal San Diego, where I spent the 1990s, whatever was happening in Silicon Valley reached us faintly, like the buzz of cicadas sealed out by good windows. Still, the vibrations traveled. You could feel them most clearly at the magazine rack, which became a monthly trading floor for belief.…
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How do LLMs work?
“Artificial Intelligence is a term for a technology that does not work. As soon as it starts working, you give it a new name.”— Richard Campbell, at NDC Oslo in 2021, in a talk titled The Next Decade of Software Development. More than one person has asked me the title question, so here is a…