Treat LLMs as 'weird little guys in your computer,' not software programs
dioscuri · x · 2026-10-10
A practical heuristic from @dioscuri: people get more out of LLMs if they switch their mental model from "software program" to "weird little guys inside my computer" — a framing that better sets expectations for the models' unpredictability and quirks.
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