Monthly Archives: October 2025

LLMs and reinforcement learning

My reflection on the Richard Sutton interview with Dwarkesh Patel was that it was interesting how much the two participants talk past each other, and fail to find common ground. Particularly that they couldn’t agree on the power of reinforcement learning, when … Continue reading

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Prompting software or supporting engineering

As we learn to operate these new generative predictive transformers, those of us in the world of software need to work out what we’re doing it for. The way in which we use them, the results we get—and the direction … Continue reading

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