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Well I think I've fully come around to the idea that LLMs are computers. So I wrote about that. I guess this is my most bombastic blog post www.phillipcarter.dev/posts/llms-c...

phillipcarter.devLLMs Are Weird ComputersA perspective on AI models as an inverted computing paradigm

Danyel Fisher

@danyelf.bsky.social

3 Mar 2025

Yodawg. I saw that you like computers. So I built an LLM into a computer so you can run a computer on a cluster of virtual computers running on a network of computers.

Phillip Carter

@phillipcarter.dev

Is the network virtual too?

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Danyel Fisher

@danyelf.bsky.social

3 Mar 2025

They call it “agentic”, I think

Phillip Carter

@phillipcarter.dev

3 Mar 2025

I don't know if you got involved at all, but uhh, there's a lot of discourse around what, exactly, is an "agent"

Danyel Fisher

@danyelf.bsky.social

3 Mar 2025

I’m attempting to speak your “LLM as computer” metaphor. In my language , an agent is a tuned bullshit generator that interacts with differently tuned bullshit generators to produce distilled wisdom