Archive - The End(s) of Argument

LLMs have Main Character Syndrome

A short note about a consistent pattern

Jan 18 • Mike Caulfield

How foreground-swapping can improve LLM response usability

Using the dynamics of foreground and background content to create a "web of correction"

Jan 13 • Mike Caulfield

What a simple question about My Cousin Vinny taught me about LLMs

If you want to see an LLM really malfunction, ask it to reconstruct a story from pieces. Also: Should this be a benchmark?

Jan 5 • Mike Caulfield

December 2025

Using "Open Link in Right View" In Chrome

Ward Cunningham, right once again...

Dec 30, 2025 • Mike Caulfield

Rewinder: A Film-Aware Fact-Checker

Yes, I have a new superprompt, a variation on the old superprompt

Dec 29, 2025 • Mike Caulfield

Working on an annotating fact-checker

Right now I'm focused on film, but it has a general application. Also: some notes on AIO.

Dec 26, 2025 • Mike Caulfield

Get It In, Lesson One: Fluidity First

The best way to build a mental habit is to make the physical motions associated with it second nature

Dec 14, 2025 • Mike Caulfield

Don't think "vibe-coding". Think just-in-time models that can help us all learn.

The ability to build models to think through issues has remained the province of the few. Is that about to change? And what does that mean for the…

Dec 10, 2025 • Mike Caulfield

We're not taking the fact-checking powers of AI seriously enough. It's past time to start.

Some notes on the Nobel Prize hallucination that wasn't

Dec 6, 2025 • Mike Caulfield

November 2025

A first pass at a get it in, track it down, follow up infographic

This will evolve but some people want something now

Nov 30, 2025 • Mike Caulfield

Some Examples of the "Track it Down" move

A bit of NotebookLM collation while I work on my larger piece

Nov 25, 2025 • Mike Caulfield

Nov 22, 2025 • Mike Caulfield

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