Reader AI / Cognition / Agency

Soft Software

Natural language treated as executable code running on the LLM platform — prompts as programs, neologisms as variables, and the chat interface as a non-deterministic read-evaluate-print loop.

Appears in 5 texts

2025-04-19 On Machine Translation "Pursuing intersemiotic translation opens the door to a view of the LLMs potency as a kind of connotative system."2024-06-08 Semiotic bricolage "We might therefore interpret the semiotic feedback loop with the model as a read-evaluate-print-loop (REPL) with state, where that state is both in the mind of the human and the context window of the AI."2024-06-06 Soft software "Human input, prompts, become like programs that then execute on the LLM and return language (including code) as a response. We might describe prompts as a sort of soft software."2024-06-02 Talking to machines "These are tokens that refer to patterns observed by the model and which are embedded deep within its structure. I hypothesized that this would allow for more fine grained control of the output of the model."2024-06-02 Neologisms "Perhaps the neologisms are a way of creating stable paths into this high dimensional space and retrieving patterns and structures."