Deekseek R1 on Ollama
This isn’t what I’d normally link to, but the new Deepseek R1 model is available on Ollama. This is such an interesting model because you can see how it reasoned through your prompt to derive its final answer. I haven’t played with it enough to see how useful the small models are for real world use cases, but it’s really interesting to see it question itself and work through the problem.
What I’ve learned about writing AI apps so far
By Laurie Voss
I thought these were interesting observations. I don’t know if I’ve had the same experience using LLMs in every case, but it’s still interesting to see what challenges others are hitting in this space. I think this post undersells LLMs, but I still thought it was an interesting perspective.
AI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes
By Bruce Schneier
This was pretty insightful. I hadn’t really thought too much about the mistakes LLMs make. I see them, but I hadn’t really thought about how they do compare to human mistakes other than they do seem to be more random. This isn’t so much a post of actionable things you can do to prevent/catch mistakes, but it’s more about being aware of the types of mistakes you can expect.
Anthropic’s new Citations API
By Simon Willison
I haven’t tried this API yet, but I do plan to work on a RAG type system that has a need like this sometime in 2025. This is pretty interesting, particularly when I think about using something like this for internal support documentation and things like that where you are going to want to pull out specific, accurate information even if you do use an LLM to generate it’s take based on that text as well.
Ignore the Grifters – AI Isn’t Going to Kill the Software Industry
By Dustin Ewers
This is a great read if you’re in software development (as a developer or a manager). I think this is largely the way it’ll play out as well. AI absolutely helps in a lot of cases, but it’s not going to outright replace software developers. There will be impacts, but I think people are too optimistic about what it’ll do at least in the short term. This post feels pretty realistic.
A selfish personal argument for releasing code as Open Source
By Simon Willison
I feel this. I don’t know that I’ve written a ton of code and I wish a lot of it was open sourced for many reasons. Not because it’s amazing code, but I’ve always disliked the idea of never being able to even see my code again to remember how I solved a problem. I don’t think I’ll be able to do this anytime soon, but I still like the idea.