Claude

Do LLMs dream of Pi? It’s a whimsical question in the vein of a Philip K. Dick story, exploring the meaning of artificial intelligence and reality itself. The reality we find ourselves in decades after Dick first wondered about electric dreams, a future containing large language models (LLMs) and chatbots, might offer new answers, or perhaps just better questions. I found a few of my own recently as I recalled a time when I was able to recite Pi out to many digits, basically on a dare, a few years ago. ...

The recent explosion of social media frenzy over agentic orchestration tools such as OpenClaw and GasTown, vibe-coded and quickly released into the wild, is yet another symptom of overhyped expectations related to generative AI models. If it takes three weeks to go viral after a few months of vibe coding, it’s a trivial solution, and it will be copied, relentlessly, and everyone will move on to something else–not sure what that will be. ...