I’d like to discuss the current situation with LLM prompting standards; how we got into this mess; and how to live with it now: open.substack.com/pub/altsoph/...
What's Wrong with Chat-Templates Format for LLM
This is going to be a long read (I rarely write these), but I believe it's a useful and interesting one with some non-trivial twists along the way. Chat-templates are broken, and I'll explain why.
open.substack.com
July 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I’d like to discuss the current situation with LLM prompting standards; how we got into this mess; and how to live with it now: open.substack.com/pub/altsoph/...
There are coding agents, so there are agent rules. Last weekend, I tried to analyze how they are used in the wild by looking at hundreds of public github repositories. Here are some thoughts about it: altsoph.substack.com/p/big-bang-o...
BIG BANG OF AGENT RULES
TLDR: Last weekend, I spent several hours digging through publicly available cursor rules files and analyzing existing usage patterns.
altsoph.substack.com
June 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
There are coding agents, so there are agent rules. Last weekend, I tried to analyze how they are used in the wild by looking at hundreds of public github repositories. Here are some thoughts about it: altsoph.substack.com/p/big-bang-o...
Well, can we generate something on really serious topics? freeonlinesurveys.com/s/ZK4rNyYX
May 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Well, can we generate something on really serious topics? freeonlinesurveys.com/s/ZK4rNyYX
okay, since today is April Fool's Day, I'd like to share some results on fully automated jokes + cartoons generation. more examples and details in my substack post altsoph.substack.com/p/comic-cart...
April 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
okay, since today is April Fool's Day, I'd like to share some results on fully automated jokes + cartoons generation. more examples and details in my substack post altsoph.substack.com/p/comic-cart...
x.com/SaveTheRbtz and I launch HUMOR-ARENA (humor.ph34r.me), generated humor labeling site with the models ranking, and the top of generated jokes. Blog-post: altsoph.medium.com/humor-arena-...
December 8, 2024 at 1:19 PM
x.com/SaveTheRbtz and I launch HUMOR-ARENA (humor.ph34r.me), generated humor labeling site with the models ranking, and the top of generated jokes. Blog-post: altsoph.medium.com/humor-arena-...
Here is the post on my #NaNoGenMo 2024 submission altsoph.medium.com/gallery-of-u... -- evolutionary search for prompts for aesthetical images generation and unsupervised generation of "guidebook" for them.
GALLERY OF UNSEEN
TLDR: It started as a bunch of strange experiments and ideas on unsupervised generation and converged into another NaNoGenMo project. This…
altsoph.medium.com
November 30, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Here is the post on my #NaNoGenMo 2024 submission altsoph.medium.com/gallery-of-u... -- evolutionary search for prompts for aesthetical images generation and unsupervised generation of "guidebook" for them.
Just posted a long-overdue write-up on my QR-Dice! It's about generating a 3D cube that projects 6 unique QR codes from each face. Dive into the process, challenges, and results here: altsoph.substack.com/p/qr-dice #math #QRCode
QR-DICE
6-sided QR-cube
altsoph.substack.com
October 27, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Just posted a long-overdue write-up on my QR-Dice! It's about generating a 3D cube that projects 6 unique QR codes from each face. Dive into the process, challenges, and results here: altsoph.substack.com/p/qr-dice #math #QRCode
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...the architecture is a canal in the city of amsterdam, the style is a modern architecture...
February 21, 2024 at 1:23 PM
...the architecture is a canal in the city of amsterdam, the style is a modern architecture...
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...a large, dark, and imposing building with a large clock tower in the center; in the middle of a snow storm; a prison...
February 19, 2024 at 4:38 PM
...a large, dark, and imposing building with a large clock tower in the center; in the middle of a snow storm; a prison...