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Last active February 4, 2026 07:26
The Conspiracy Against High Temperature LLM Sampling

The Conspiracy Against High Temperature Sampling

Or: Why Your LLM Outputs Are Boring and Whose Fault It Really Is

There's a quiet war being waged in the machine learning inference space, and most of you don't even know you're losing it. Every day, millions of people interact with large language models through sanitized, corporatized interfaces that offer them a single "creativity" slider at best. Often they get nothing at all. Meanwhile, a small cabal of researchers and hobbyists has been pushing the boundaries of what's actually possible with modern sampling techniques. Yes, this includes the much maligned "coomer" community.

We live in a time of revealed conspiracies. The Epstein files have shown us what happens when powerful institutions coordinate to suppress information and protect their interests. Flight logs that sat in plain sight for years. Connections that "serious people" dismissed as paranoid speculation until the documents dropped. The pattern is always the same! Information asymme

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Last active December 27, 2025 05:31
You probably don't know how to do Prompt Engineering, let me educate you.

You probably don't know how to do Prompt Engineering

(This post could also be titled "Features missing from most LLM front-ends that should exist")

Apologies for the snarky title, but there has been a huge amount of discussion around so called "Prompt Engineering" these past few months on all kinds of platforms. Much of it is coming from individuals who are peddling around an awful lot of "Prompting" and very little "Engineering".

Most of these discussions are little more than users finding that writing more creative and complicated prompts can help them solve a task that a more simple prompt was unable to help with. I claim this is not Prompt Engineering. This is not to say that crafting good prompts is not a difficult task, but it does not involve doing any kind of sophisticated modifications to general "template" of a prompt.

Others, who I think do deserve to call themselves "Prompt Engineers" (and an awful lot more than that), have been writing about and utilizing the rich new eco-system