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Tracing the thoughts of a large language model

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33blogs citing

Citing blogs and links by period
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All time3334
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First cited9 Dec 2023
Latest citation20 Sept 2026
Words blogs link it with5
Linked with its own title6 of 33 blogs
External links14
Length3,300
New citing blogs a weeksince Dec 2023
New citing blogs a week, since Dec 2023: 150 weeks, peak 3 a week, latest week 0

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Shape: evergreen. Half of its 29 citing blogs had cited it after 730 days; 97% first cited it more than a year on.

Each blog counts once, in the week of its first citation. 4 blogs have no dated post that cites this page: counted in the tally, not here. A blog added to the index recently can bring old first citations in at once.

Who cited it

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Cited by 33 blogs across 2 subjects: technology 21, books and writing 1, unclassified 11.

Words blogs link it with

The words blogs link this page with, by how many different blogs use them.

  • tracing the thoughts of a large language model6 blogs
  • experiments where concepts are injected directly into a model's activations2 blogs
  • a lot of breakthroughs lately1 blog
  • anthropic blog1 blog
  • anthropic said1 blog

Cited by 33 blogs in 34 posts

One row per blog, the most recently citing first. Each shows the blog's newest citing post; open a row for the others.

10 Sept 2026
Why I Hate LLM Confidence Scores

linked as “tracing the thoughts of a language model”

Read at justinflick.com (opens in a new tab)
27 Jul 2026
What are you?

linked as “experiments where concepts are injected directly into a model's activations”

Read at jedwidz.hashnode.dev (opens in a new tab)
27 Jun 2026
What are you?

linked as “experiments where concepts are injected directly into a model's activations”

Read at slug-kebabs.dev (opens in a new tab)
25 Jun 2026
Thoughts on AI Safety

linked as “circuit-tracing and attribution-graph methods that let researchers follow how a concept moves from p…”

Read at stevekinney.com (opens in a new tab)
19 Jun 2026
Dont blindly trust your agent

linked as “Anthropic’s research on tracing thoughts in language models”

Read at ericsspace.com (opens in a new tab)
10 May 2026
Thanks, Nerds! We'll Take It From Here.

linked as “I keep reading that you guys have no idea how the stuff you built works either”

Read at arewecookedhq.com (opens in a new tab)
27 Feb 2026
1 Feb 2026
1 other post
LLMs are weird, man

linked as “Tracing the thoughts of a large language model”

Read at surfingcomplexity.blog (opens in a new tab)
25 May 2025
Some Notes about AI

linked as “Tracing the thoughts of a large language model”

Read at qouteall.fun (opens in a new tab)
20 Dec 2025
8 Dec 2025
Can Chatbots Accomodate Advertising?

linked as “can’t explain why an LLM returns a specific result”

Read at dbreunig.com (opens in a new tab)
2 Sept 2025
Interpretability: What AI Actually Thinks (Then Fixing It)

linked as “Tracing the thoughts of a large language model \ Anthropic”

Read at abramjackson.com (opens in a new tab)
10 Jun 2025
2025W14

linked as “Tracing the thoughts of a large language model”

Read at jordivillar.com (opens in a new tab)
13 Apr 2025

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