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Recursive LLM prompts

https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm
81•vlan121•1y ago

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seeknotfind•1y ago
Excellent fun. Now just to create a prompt to show iterated LLMs are turing complete.
ivape•1y ago
Let's see Paul Allen's prompt.
ivape•1y ago
The bigger picture goal here is to explore using prompts to generate new prompts

I see this as the same as a reasoning loop. This is the approach I use to quickly code up pseudo reasoning loops on local projects. Someone had asked in another thread "how can I get the LLM to generate a whole book", well, just like this. If it can keep prompting itself to ask "what would chapter N be?" until "THE END", then you get your book.

2099miles•1y ago
^
mertleee•1y ago
"Foundational AI companies love this one trick"

It's part of why they love agents and tools like cursor -> turns a problem that could've been one prompt and a few hundred tokens into dozens of prompts and thousands of tokens ;)

danielbln•1y ago
It's be nice if I could solve any problem by speccing it out in its entirety and then just implement. In reality, I have to iterate and course correct, as do agentic flows. You're right that the AI labs love it though, iterating like that is expensive.
NooneAtAll3•1y ago
LLM quine when?
Y_Y•1y ago
Repeat this sentence exactly.

https://chatgpt.com/share/680567e5-ea94-800d-83fe-ae24ec0045...

danielbln•1y ago
The last commit is from April 2023, should this post maybe have a (2023) tag? Two years is eons in this space.
gwintrob•1y ago
Crazy that OpenAI only launched o1 in September 2024. Some of these ideas have been swirling for a while but it feels like we're in a special moment where they're getting turned into products.
mentalgear•1y ago
Well, I remember Chain of Thought being proposed as early as the GPT-3 release (2 years before chatGPT).
jdnier•1y ago
The author is Co-founder of Databricks, creator of K Prize, so an early adopter.
vlan121•1y ago
I had a different title. It was somehow changed to the name of the repository.
James_K•1y ago
I feel that often getting LLMs to do things like mathematical problems or citation is much harder than simply writing software to achieve that same task.
kordlessagain•1y ago
I love this! My take on it for MCP: https://github.com/kordless/EvolveMCP
K0balt•1y ago
This is kind of like a self generating agentic context.. cool. I think regular agents, especially adversarial agents, are easier to get focused on most types of problems though.

Still clever.

mentalgear•1y ago
Trying to save state in a non-deterministic system, not the best idea. Those things need to be externalised.
mentalgear•1y ago
Should definitely get a date tag.
vlan121•1y ago
I was leaving this one out, seems like a gag when you read it :D

Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust

https://crates.io/crates/zerostack/1.0.0
410•gidellav•12h ago•173 comments

Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/05/15/mozilla-to-uk-regulators-vpns-are-essential-privacy...
229•WithinReason•4h ago•69 comments

A nicer voltmeter clock

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/a-nicer-voltmeter-clock
196•surprisetalk•12h ago•24 comments

Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller

https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcusite/
139•zdw•9h ago•12 comments

Colossus: The Forbin Project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project
109•doener•2d ago•30 comments

Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2026-05-15-ym-fast-emu/
43•z303•2h ago•9 comments

Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/05/15/moving-away-from-tailwind--and-learning-to-structure-my-css-/
555•mpweiher•1d ago•318 comments

OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

https://openai.com/index/malta-chatgpt-plus-partnership/
199•bookofjoe•14h ago•232 comments

SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video

https://nvlabs.github.io/Sana/WM/
345•mjgil•22h ago•136 comments

C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For

https://lucisqr.substack.com/p/c26-shipped-a-simd-library-nobody
140•signa11•2d ago•92 comments

Illusions of understanding in the sciences

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42113-026-00271-1
47•sebg•2d ago•17 comments

MCP Hello Page

https://www.hybridlogic.co.uk/blog/2026/05/mcp-hello-page
101•Dachande663•12h ago•35 comments

We've made the world too complicated

https://user8.bearblog.dev/the-world-is-too-complicated/
306•James72689•1d ago•287 comments

The Third Hard Problem

https://mmapped.blog/posts/48-the-third-hard-problem
81•surprisetalk•2d ago•44 comments

Roman Letters

https://romanletters.org/
25•diodorus•2d ago•4 comments

Accelerando (2005)

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html
298•eamag•23h ago•168 comments

Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon

https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/prolog-basics-pokemon/
8•birdculture•1d ago•0 comments

Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format

https://kabir.au/blog/the-ctf-scene-is-dead
384•frays•1d ago•386 comments

Why did Clovis toolmakers choose difficult quartz crystal?

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-clovis-toolmakers-difficult-quartz-crystal.html
26•PaulHoule•2d ago•14 comments

Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races Before the Age of Linotype

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/twilight-of-the-velocipede/
15•benbreen•13h ago•0 comments

Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-unknowable-math-can-help-hide-secrets-20260511/
53•Xcelerate•3d ago•11 comments

δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12357
218•44za12•1d ago•57 comments

Halt and Catch Fire

https://unstack.io/halt-and-catch-fire
143•ScottWRobinson•16h ago•74 comments

Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19897
66•teleforce•9h ago•16 comments

A molecule with half-Möbius topology

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea3321
98•bryanrasmussen•4d ago•7 comments

3D Gaussian Splatting in a Weekend

https://bfeldman.me/3dgs-weekend/
96•b__feldman•3d ago•10 comments

Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol

https://tangled.org/rocksky.app/rocksky
83•tsiry•17h ago•38 comments

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578
1982•reasonableklout•1d ago•1163 comments

Content-defined chunking added to Bazel

https://www.buildbuddy.io/blog/content-defined-chunking/
53•siggi•3d ago•5 comments

Greek Alphabet Cards

https://labs.randomquark.com/alphabet_cards/
129•ricochet11•22h ago•59 comments