2 posts tagged with "AI Research"

If you want to understand why AI works the way it does today, you don't need to read a hundred papers. You need to read about five, in order, and understand what each one changed. Everything since is, to a first approximation, a refinement or a scaling-up of ideas these introduced.

Here is a shift that has already happened, whether or not your documentation noticed: a large and growing share of the readers of everything you write are no longer human. They're language models — reading your docs to answer a question, your README to use your library, your marketing page to tell someone what you do. Andrej Karpathy has been making this point for a while, and it lands harder every month: the primary reader of a lot of your writing is now an LLM, and you are probably still writing for a human.