Stop treating LLMs like software — treat them like "a weird little guy in your computer"
dioscuri · x · 2026-10-10
dioscuri offers a practical mental model: people who treat LLMs as ordinary software give up when the model says it can't do something, while those who treat it as "a weird little guy inside my computer" keep encouraging it to try. He suspects many would get more out of LLMs by switching to the latter framing.
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