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zby • today at 9:03 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

My model is about gaps - all ideas start with gaps. LLMs can fill in these gaps quickly - but some ideas are just bad - so the filling in does not improve them. Maybe it would be useful to treat that filling in as a kind of hallucination - the LLM trying to meed impossible requirements. But on other cases the ideas are good and the LLMs fill in the gaps in the right way. It is a kind of skill to see when LLMs are hallucinating in the gaps. I use LLMs very extensively and I am adding checks to that should catch when the filling in is weak - but it is still not fully autonomous.

I also try to keep the llm-enhanced (or even fully llm-generated) content separate from my human writing - because it is true that the failure modes are different. But think LLM writing might be useful even if it is not consumed directly - it can enhance LLM answering your questions.


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zby • today at 9:11 AM

And apparently I am repeating here what I already have in my KB: https://zby.github.io/commonplace/theory/llm-generation-rela... - I borrowed the model from Boretti. The agent says that the note is much more careful and better developed than my comment above. You can judge yourself - but I think it does have many more details and hopefully most of these details are the good kind of filling in - but I guess it might be harder to read.