Computer scientist Lance Fortnow on long LLM conversations: 'they behave better than you'
fortnow · x · 2026-10-24
Theoretical computer scientist Lance Fortnow shared a takeaway from a talk: LLMs mirror yourself back to you — "that's flattering, I think they behave better," since the conversations keep track of mistakes and dead ends. The full talk video is available at his link.
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