http://programmer.ie/tags/compound-ai-systems/ Recent content in Compound AI Systems on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:01:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/hallucination-from-first-principles/15-chapter/ Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:01:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/hallucination-from-first-principles/15-chapter/ <p>The first chapter began with a simple observation:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span style="display:flex;"><span>A language model can produce a fluent answer </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>without possessing a mechanism that proves the answer is true. </span></span></code></pre></div><p>Fourteen chapters later, that fact has not changed.</p> <p>The model can still:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span style="display:flex;"><span>invent </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>misbind </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>misattribute </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>ignore decisive context </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>answer without enough evidence </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>accept bad retrieval </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>repair one error by creating another </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>repeat its own stored mistake </span></span></code></pre></div><p>The final architecture does not make those possibilities disappear.</p>