The most important weird thing about LLMs is that they are so general. A bigger LLM that is better at coding is also better at ideation & et

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Ethan Mollick
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2026-06-30
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The most important weird thing about LLMs is that they are so general. A bigger LLM that is better at coding is also better at ideation & ethical advice & medicine & math. This isn’t true of everything, jaggedness again (see fiction writing!), but it is remarkably true.

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The most important weird thing about LLMs is that they are so general. A bigger LLM that is better at coding is also better at ideation & ethical advice & medicine & math. This isn’t true of everything, jaggedness again (see fiction writing!), but it is remarkably true.

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