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Cursor agent system prompt.

How do you get a dumb LLM to do your bidding? You have to write a very good system prompt! Nobody wants theirs exposed as it’s intellectual property, but it seems that they inevitably leak because LLMs are inevitably jailbroken. […]

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On jagged AGI.

“You might find yourself “feeling the AGI” as well. Or maybe not. Maybe the AI failed you, even when you gave it the exact same prompt I used. If so, you just encountered the jagged frontier. My co-authors and I […]

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AI 2027. “We predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution. We wrote a scenario that represents our best guess about what that might look like. It’s informed […]

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The case against conversational interfaces.

They need not replace things that work very well (buttons), but they should augment them. “Users should be able to trigger actions from anywhere with simple voice prompts without having to interrupt whatever they are currently doing with mouse and […]