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For the last ten years on Christmas Day I've written a retrospective on the past year. This year's is a public post.

I know a few people for whom LLMs have been a near-immediate multiplier of attention and effort. I know a lot for whom LLMs clearly make them worse at thinking and doing things. So: why?

An LLM lied about me at the office and I'm cranky about it. That interaction makes me think a lot about how LLMs are becoming normalized, though, and what we're looking at in terms of their role in human-to-human interactions in the future.

Wherein our hero, in this publication's inaugural, dates himself (as if others would) in a reminiscence of computers and websites past.