Saturday, August 2, 2025

Programming the LLM

I have been dabbling over past 6 months with LLM for different applications. All of them in some way relate to unstructured documents - largely text, and something fundamental seems to come to me: LLM is like an operating system, and we are essentially programming it by writing prompts - with one big cavate - while the traditional programming is all about precision, correctness and predictability - the LLM is kind of fuzzy in all of these characterises - and in that way it is more like how humans actually think.

LLM and Software Development

The speed with which you can go from an idea to implementation and deployment has so rapidly increased that even my 5 year old kid is able t...