Trek Glowacki

@trek.bsky.social

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Helped start Ann Arbor's OG Coworking community, couponed at Groupon, usually working to get some startup acquired. Ember.js core emeritus. Paul Irish once called me a hero. ❤️ Ruby and JavaScript. 🏳️‍🌈. 📍Chicago.

The sears tower staring into your soul
In LLMs, chaos arises from small perturbations to the input tokens. LLMs are highly sensitive to changes in formatting, and different models respond differently to the same formatting choices. Simply phrasing a question differently yields strikingly different results. Rearranging the order of sentences, even when logically independent, makes LLMs give different answers. Systems of multiple LLMs are chaotic too, even at T=0. This chaotic behavior makes it difficult for humans to predict what LLMs will do, and leads to all kinds of interesting consequences.
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A photo of outdoor furniture
A conversation between me and an LLM where it claims something is "well known" only to be caught saying bullshit
A well dressed car reading the morning paper with a cup of tea
“I’m currently using the AI Agent node with an LLM to extract the mileage from fuel receipts. It basically works, but the number is often recognized incorrectly. Is there any reliable alternative to using an LLM for this?”
Me: I did the following entry into CREDIT CARD: 2026-02-14,Beatrix,Dining Out,29 and it was no reflected in the budget for this month Claude: Let me investigate why that entry isn't showing up. I'll check the formulas in the Monthly Summary tab.Checking the Monthly Summary formulas to diagnose why the credit card entry isn't showing upChecking the Monthly Summary formulas to diagnose why the credit card entry isn't showing upScriptDoneAh, I found the issue! The formula for February (column B) is actually looking for dates in January (between 1/1 and 2/1), not February. There's an off-by-one error in my month calculations. Let me fix this:
Movie poster the producers
A close up of the painting Nighthawks
Two in-app notifications. One is cut off and cannot be scrolled to.
A modal showing "bulk action in progress. Stay on this page until the bulk action is finished"
A copy of a tax transcript with taxes filed 03-17-2025 and finally released 01-12-2026
A slack screenshot with like five different radii on corners.
josh hutcherson licking a phone