Boyd Kane

About Me I like writing about expertise, using computers to solve problems, and bringing novel ideas into existence.

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Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI

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Can't you just turn it off?

Experts have it easy (2024)

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Something that’s painfully understudied is how experts are more efficient than novices while achieving better results.

LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines

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| Read on LessWrong | Comment on HN | Large language models often take actions running on one computer (via an agentic harness such as Claude Code or Codex), however the LLMs’ responses to prompts are computed on a different computer with GPU access.