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Over the last year, as I've spent more time working with LLMs to power product features, I've also been thinking about how LLMs impact me as a long-form author. Of the ideas I've had, I'm particularly interested in the idea of building, and selling, books as "datapacks" for LLMs.

Will Larson

@lethain.com

Full piece at lethain.com/competitive-... going into the concept a bit more deeply.

lethain.comWhat is the competitive advantage of authors in the age of LLMs?Over the past 19 months, I’ve written Crafting Engineering Strategy, a book on creating engineering strategy. I’ve also been working increasingly with large language models at work. Unsurprisingly, th...

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Will Larson

@lethain.com

14 June 2025

Have six (draft, unedited) chapters of my upcoming book exploring this idea in a bit more detail! craftingengstrategy.com/aic/generate...

craftingengstrategy.comAI Companion / Generating Systems ModelsCrafting Engineering Strategy has a chapter on systems modeling along with a number of examples. Those examples focus on using the lethain/systems python library to generate models using a Jupyter not...