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Is "Are you sure?" a bad follow-up prompt?
A very minimal test with some fairly clear results. (The answer is yes, it's bad)
Sep 9
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Mike Caulfield
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Does successful LLM iteration require previous knowledge of the right answer?
Answer: No.
Sep 7
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Mike Caulfield
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Is the LLM response wrong, or have you just failed to iterate it?
Many "errors" in search-assisted LLMs are not errors at all, but the result of an investigation aborted too soon. Here's how to up your LLM-based…
Sep 7
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Mike Caulfield
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It's a Fancy Search Result
A simplification about AI with real-time search integration that will help you get more out of it
Sep 6
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Mike Caulfield
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Using AI Is a Process Too
Just as there is "search" and there is "search process" there is a process around AI-assisted investigation too -- and we should teach it
Sep 1
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Mike Caulfield
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August 2025
Confirmation Bias in LLM Responses and Potential Educational Mitigations
A couple notes on an interesting problem and some possible educational approaches to it
Aug 30
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Mike Caulfield
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Comparing the wrong things
Search might be a better approach for learning about the world, but the right comparisons matter
Aug 24
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Mike Caulfield
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July 2025
Building an "Event Checker" for a Hallucination and Error Research Project
A couple tricks
Jul 6
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Mike Caulfield
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Advanced Prompting: "Data-Paging" in LLMs
Making up pretend code to to solve the real problem of having to pull data a bit at a time
Jul 4
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Mike Caulfield
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How Prompting Is Evolving
If you're a good teacher you'll soon be a good prompter too
Jul 3
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Mike Caulfield
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Live Demo of Deep Background for Claude
I finally do a decent video, and maybe also get closer to the core value
Jul 2
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Mike Caulfield
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June 2025
Why the "Everything is Hallucination" Argument Makes Me Roll My Eyes
From LLMs to the Gulf of Tonkin, distinctions matter. Also: a note about "radar clutter".
Jun 20
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Mike Caulfield
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