Posts Tagged with “how-llms-work”
13 posts touching on how-llms-work.
- How Claude Code Works, Part 2: Context, Control, Configuration
How three agent codebases converged on the same patterns for context engineering, skills, hooks, custom subagents, and the Agent SDK.
- How Claude Code Works, From Tokens to Agents
A visual walkthrough of what happens inside AI coding tools, built up layer by layer from a basic prompt to a full agent loop.
- LLMs Are Not Conscious
LLMs reproduce a narrow slice of what minds do. They don't learn, remember, or act on their own.
- LLMs can't introspect
Every LLM self-explanation is drawn from training data and prior tokens, same as everything else it says.
- The Biggest Misconception About LLMs
The simplest way to understand a large language model is this - it works like an extremely smart printer
- Perceived Intelligence Is The Lowest Common Denominator
We may not see a big jump in perceived model intelligence from here.
- AI LLMs think out loud
If you don't see its thoughts, it isn't thinking. It's just recalling information.
- How does an LLM perform actions?
The LLM doesn't perform actions itself; it facilitates the actions through textual commands.
- Every output of an LLM is a hallucination
LLMs don't do anything different when they "make up" information because they always "make it up".
- LLMs are dreamers.
There's little relation between what an LLM says it can do and its actual capabilities.
- An issue with the AI paperclip optimizer theory
It's unlikely we'll give a monkey access to an AK47
- Why can AI chatbots produce scary outputs?
Most written content about AI focuses on doomsday scenarios, and that's what the models learned from.
- Neural Networks work but we don't know why
They work but we don't know why