{"id":35582,"date":"2026-03-18T13:21:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T20:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=35582"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:21:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T20:21:39","slug":"ccatp-831","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/ccatp-831\/","title":{"rendered":"CCATP #831 \u2014 Adam Engst on Reading Trains Your Internal LLM"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this fascinating discussion with Adam Engst, we discuss how he used to think that reading added information to essentially a database in his brain. Recently, though, he has started to think about his brain as a large language model, and that instead, reading is changing the weights of the model to include new information.<\/p>\n

Here’s a link to the article on tidbits.com\/…<\/a> where Adam explains this concept in full detail.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2026_03_18.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

mp3 download<\/a><\/p>\n

Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: CCATP_2026_03_18<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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