LLMs Learn Better by Analogies and Metaphors
Exploring how analogies and metaphors enhance the learning process of Large Language Models.
Exploring how analogies and metaphors enhance the learning process of Large Language Models.
Grep Monads thinks he's helping by giving everyone templates, cheat sheets, and quick references. When a pressure leak demands emergency EVA repair, Amyas brings pure welding oxygen for the suit. 'Your template says O = Oxygen.' Mars doesn't negotiate with pattern matching.
Deputy Woods laments the abandoned ZeroDrink dispenser built by Zero Xi before he transferred to Golang Habitat. 'Someone should maintain it,' Woods insists, while refusing to adopt it himself. When the dispenser breaks during a dehydration emergency, Woods brags about his 'tens of thousands of lines of memory-safe Rust.' MadBomber has technical questions about Rc<T> and RefCell<T>. Mars doesn't care about vanity metrics.
In 2024, I authored LRDL (LLM Requirements Definition Language) - the exact same concept as TOON. After spending thousands in API calls testing it, I found out only frontier models understand it, at extra thinking cost. Small models need structure. Deepseek started speaking Mandarin mid-discussion. Gemini replied in Russian. Claude refactored my Ruby code to Java. I wiped the guide from GitHub because I know any big project will output bad results. Now TOON is getting the same hype cycle, and we're heading toward software that's not only SLOP - it's dangerous.
LLMs are pattern matchers, not entropy generators. If you don't dictate specifics, you'll get purple gradients, Sarah Chen testimonials, and $47M Sequoia hallucinations. ADDD (Agentic Dictatorship-Driven Development) is the opposite of vibe coding - and it's the only way to get real results.
A CEO tweets about touching 2400 files with a single Cursor prompt. 16 hours runtime. No git diff shown. No verification described. This is Hallucination Driven Development--shipping AI output on faith and calling it engineering.
LLMs don't trust tool results. They "correct" sensor data to match their training. A calculator returns 57, the model reports 15. Iron Dome fails, ChatGPT insists it works. Your health app will confidently dismiss your heart attack as a sensor glitch. We're shipping software that gaslights reality.