Chris’s Substack

August 2025

MCP ain't goin' nowhere fast

And with those wheels, who is surprised?

Aug 29 • 

Chris Brew

1

Naked Gun (2025)

Is pretty much everything that it should be.

Aug 7 • 

Chris Brew

The psychology of unreliable things

The affordances of LLMs

Aug 5 • 

Chris Brew

1

Stanislaw Lem on professional use of LLMs

Systematic pretend compliance

Aug 5 • 

Chris Brew

1

July 2025

Hallucinations and confabulations

How to think about chatbots

Jul 29 • 

Chris Brew

March 2025

All Generative AI use cases are the same

Summarization, Question Answering and Text Generation

Mar 24 • 

Chris Brew

4

December 2024

June 2024

Care and feeding of LLMs, XHTML more like it

In my previous post, I wrote about a pitfall of trying to put LLMs into industrial scale LLM pipelines.

Jun 30, 2024 • 

Chris Brew

Care and feeding of LLMs: XML How Not To

My experience is that LLMs are very good at using structure that is indicated by HTML tags, very good with structure that is indicated via Markdown, not…

Jun 3, 2024 • 

Chris Brew

1

January 2024

There WAS gold in the California Gold Rush

Maybe the AI Gold Rush will find AI Gold

Jan 8, 2024 • 

Chris Brew

2