"a lot of people don’t understand how it works, because the LLM is not going to tell you how the LLM works. But it is going to tell you that whatever you think about it is totally correct, and then string a bunch of words together."
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And this is just a generally great, lively, funny interview about what libraries and librarians really do in 2026 and why that's not as simple a story as people might have in their heads by default. Jessamyn West is a human treasure.
Jessamyn's Maxim of Uptime says that the likelihood that your website will be up and running is in inverse proportion to the amount of media mentions that you've gotten in the past 24 hours.
I did an interview with a person who works for an indie news outlet. I mentioned my work with Flickr Commons and my blog, librarian.net. Within 24 hours of the interview going up, both sites were down (and are both back up now.
Here's the interview. I think it came out well.
https://www.newsjunkie.net/article/jessamyn-west-interview