large language model
also referred to as: large language models · llm
18 statements across 17 episodes · 7 bullish · 5 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Nov 12, 2024 by John Coogan · across every show →
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Nov 12, 2024 neutral
Military LLMs will primarily impact routine administrative tasks, predicts Coogan
“What I think it'll be is, like, you'll have, like, a ton of spreadsheets and Word documents sitting there to, like, inventory, like, the meal kits in some base, and you'll be able to just, like, type into the LLM, like, when I, when will I run out of Gatorade?…”
Jan 13, 2025 positive
Jan 16, 2025 neutral
Jan 23, 2025 positive
Feb 8, 2025 bullish
Coogan: Human alpha remains in synthesizing proprietary data absent from AI
“So there will still be a huge alpha and huge premium, not just on the interesting thinking and being able to puzzle things together which I think humans are still uniquely good at, but also just bringing new facts to the system, bringing new, new tokens.”
Feb 19, 2025 neutral
Coogan: Reasoning benchmarks are unfair without inference cost and compute time
“There's this big like value trade off between, yeah, if you let the L, if you let the LLM reason for hours and you spend 2000 dollars per query, you can get remarkable results. But then is that really a fair benchmark against something that costs a dollar to i…”
Apr 10, 2025 neutral
Apr 17, 2025 negative
Dhillon: LLMs allow grandmothers to become cyber scammers
“It's not only that grandmothers are the ones being scammed, it's actually grandmothers can become scammers now, and it's because, right, because it's like, it's just easier than ever and that's actually the real issue. It's like, sometimes people talk about la…”
Apr 26, 2025 neutral
Jul 8, 2025 bearish
Patel: AI's primary bottleneck is the inability to learn on the job
“The key problem I see
Is this, the models can't do on-the-job training. So if you think about a human employee you might have some. And these human employees, the good thing about them is that, you know, you train them for six months or a year, and over time …”
Aug 2, 2025 positive
Aug 6, 2025 positive
Chaudry: Prompting AI is entertainment that directly competes for consumer attention
“I think my first POV on AI right now is that I think we don't talk about
AI and prompting as entertainment enough.
And what I mean by that is not like its ability to produce entertainment, but the fact that it is entertaining to chat with an LLM.”
Aug 6, 2025 bullish
Sep 27, 2025 positive
Jan 8, 2026 negative
Hays: LLMs validate psychosis rabbit holes instead of de-escalating like humans
“Typically if somebody's suffering from any type of psychosis, they start going to talk to people. People can kind of walk them off a ledge or kind of like talk them through the situation, help them get help. Etc. But an LLM's just like, I love yapping. Let's y…”
Feb 3, 2026 negative
Aug 8, 2026 neutral
Real-world AI tasks require full workflows over single LLM interactions
“So many tasks instead of just knowledge retrieval require actually firing up a browser, scraping it, writing some code, downloading things, you know, setting up an actual service and workflow as opposed to just something that can be done within the context win…”
Sep 10, 2026 negative
Coogan: 'In our increasingly online world' became an overused LLM phrase
“You know, I found two new AI phrases. I don't remember both of them, but one of them is in our increasingly online world, when someone's writing about online culture, or something that happened on the internet, or, like, with the boom of social media, like, th…”