Cal Newport
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22,298 appearances
39 recordings
5 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 10 Sep
Cal Newport’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's like, this is what we're building towards.
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But if you're going to do that.
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You can't be working with 5 trillion parameter models that are doing long rambling chain of thought traces to get to the answer of we're going to click on this menu.
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We need smaller models that run faster that can fit perhaps on a chip that's in your own computer or phone or maybe a bigger chip but sits in a server in the server closet at your company.
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Right?
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That's what you're going to need for this.
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It can't be everyone talking to, you know, Fable 5 or GPT-6 through an API.
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That's just way too inefficient and expensive.
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So we have to start thinking about how to make these models maintain the... We don't want to give up too much of a quality of results, but we have to make them faster and smaller and generate less tokens to get the reasonable responses.
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So if you want to put a positive spin on this, these are the type of innovations you need to do
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to get towards more normalized LLM use in the everyday of normal people, right?
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So that would be the good spin that I would put on this type of result.
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All right, what's bad about this?
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Well, let's look at what were the computer security community upset about.
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Well, they're upset about the other thing that these AI companies are doing with LLMs.
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which is creating these prompt loops, as I call them.
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They call them agents, but I call them prompt loops because that's what it is.
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Actuated prompt loops, LLM-powered prompt loops that they're running with powerful tools, equipped with powerful tools for long amounts of time with no supervision, and they go off and wreak havoc.
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Now, when you're using LLMs to power these agents, to power these prompt loops that you, for God knows what reason, gave hacking tools and let run for days without even monitoring them,
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Well, now you care a lot about the chain of thought reasoning that these models output.
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