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Willison is a working engineer who writes plainly about what the technology can and cannot reliably do, which is the single hardest thing for a non-technical founder to gauge. He is honest about hallucinations, confidently wrong answers, and the gap between an impressive demo and a dependable product. This gives you the vocabulary to ask a builder sharp questions about what breaks in production.
Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
From simonwillison.net by Simon Willison ~30 min
- Capable models still produce confident wrong answers, so reliability is the real test
- A model that dazzles in a demo can fail on messy real inputs
- Treat these tools as fast but fallible assistants, not oracles
