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    Thoughts on LLMs and the coming AI backlash

    February 13th, 2025

    I find Large Language Models fascinating. They are a very different approach to AI than most of the 60 years of AI research and show great promise. At the same time they are just technology. They aren’t magic. They aren’t even very good technology yet. LLM hype has vastly outpaced reality and I think we are due for a correction, possibly even a bubble pop. Furthermore, I think future AI progress is going to happen on the app / UX side, not on the core models, which are already starting to show their scaling limits. Let’s dig in. Better pour a cup of coffee. This could be a long one.

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    Tagged: life rant

    Remembering Mixed Reality

    January 23rd, 2025

    Working in the Mixed Reality group at Mozilla was the most fun I ever had in my 30 year career. Helping to usher a new technology into the world. One with such potential. I’d really love to go back there. Unfortunately it seems there isn’t really a there to go back to. Cue memory fade.

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    My Areas of Interest for 2025

    January 16th, 2025

    I’ve been quiet lately, not because I’ve had nothing to say but because I’ve not felt well enough to say it. That changes today. 

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    Tagged: life rant

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