Nah, it's a cool blog post especially as it was real AI research done at home (albeit with a ridiculously expensive PC), but Anthropic and other labs have been investigating this kind of thing for years.
Even the original transformer architecture makes this clear. It had an explicit "encoder" phase and then a "decoder" phase. Modern LLMs collapse the two together, or are sometimes described rather confusingly as being decoder only. But what they're doing is more or less the same.
Even the original transformer architecture makes this clear. It had an explicit "encoder" phase and then a "decoder" phase. Modern LLMs collapse the two together, or are sometimes described rather confusingly as being decoder only. But what they're doing is more or less the same.