Things we learned about LLMs in 2024(simonwillison.net)
871 points by simonw | 530 comments
Simon Willison's blog post reviewing the major developments, themes and pivotal moments in large language models during 2024.
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The last six months in LLMs in five minutes(simonwillison.net)
717 points by yakkomajuri | 542 comments
Simon Willison's annotated slides from a five-minute PyCon US 2026 lightning talk summarizing the last six months of LLM developments.
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LLM Year in Review(karpathy.bearblog.dev)
324 points by swyx | 121 comments
Andrej Karpathy's blog post reviewing major developments in large language models during 2025, dated December 19, 2025.
Things we learned about LLMs in 2024(simonwillison.net)
871 points by simonw | 530 comments
Simon Willison's blog post reviewing the major developments, themes and pivotal moments in large language models during 2024.
LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024(antirez.com)
355 points by nalgeon | 230 comments
Intended to be antirez's blog post on using LLMs for programming in early 2024, but the capture shows a Redis-branded 404 error page.
LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)
336 points by CharlesW | 121 comments
MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.
The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals(mazzzystar.github.io)
467 points by mazzystar | 271 comments
A 2023 personal blog post reflecting on how six months of intensive ChatGPT/GPT-4 use gives individuals leverage to build things.
GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents(interconnects.ai)
344 points by vantareed | 197 comments
Nathan Lambert's Interconnects post arguing that the GLM-5.2 model marks a capability threshold for open-weight agentic AI.