Tracing the thoughts of a large language model
A post on anthropic.com is cited by 33 distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 17 October 2026).
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33blogs citing
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| All time | 33 | 34 |
| Last 90 days | 4 | 4 |
| Last 30 days | 1 | 1 |
| Last 7 days | 0 | 0 |
| First cited | 9 Dec 2023 |
|---|---|
| Latest citation | 20 Sept 2026 |
| Words blogs link it with | 5 |
| Linked with its own title | 6 of 33 blogs |
| External links | 14 |
| Length | 3,300 |
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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
BetaCited by 33 blogs across 2 subjects: technology 21, books and writing 1, unclassified 11.
- Technology21
- Books and writing1
- Unclassified11
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.
linked as “tracing the thoughts of a language model”
Read at justinflick.com (opens in a new tab)linked as “experiments where concepts are injected directly into a model's activations”
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Read at stevekinney.com (opens in a new tab)linked as “how AIs compose poetry”
Read at 80000hours.substack.com (opens in a new tab)linked as “Anthropic’s research on tracing thoughts in language models”
Read at ericsspace.com (opens in a new tab)linked as “link”
Read at mythofechelon.co.uk (opens in a new tab)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)linked as “in really weird ways”
Read at georgesupreeth.com (opens in a new tab)linked as “looks more like biology research than engineering”
Read at surfingcomplexity.blog (opens in a new tab)1 other post
linked as “Tracing the thoughts of a large language model”
Read at surfingcomplexity.blog (opens in a new tab)linked as “Tracing the Thoughts of an LLM”
Read at amatria.in (opens in a new tab)linked as “Tracing the thoughts of a large language model”
Read at qouteall.fun (opens in a new tab)linked as “how LLMs might “think””
Read at doesitmatter.ai (opens in a new tab)linked as “can’t explain why an LLM returns a specific result”
Read at dbreunig.com (opens in a new tab)linked as “how it performs arithmetic”
Read at omar.bet (opens in a new tab)linked as “Tracing the thoughts of a large language model \ Anthropic”
Read at abramjackson.com (opens in a new tab)linked as “Tracing the thoughts of a large language model”
Read at jordivillar.com (opens in a new tab)linked as “a lot of breakthroughs lately”
Read at builder.io (opens in a new tab)linked as “Tracing the thoughts of a large language model (8 minute read)”
Read at codebytom.blog (opens in a new tab)linked as “recent reports from Anthropic”
Read at mathewingram.com (opens in a new tab)linked as “great strides in this area”
Read at sgnt.ai (opens in a new tab)linked as “how they actually are doing the math”
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