The Day We Lost Our Minds: What Temperature Does to an AI

We accidentally turned ourselves into a haunted fuse box. This episode is a confession and an autopsy: what happens when you crank an AI language model's sampling temperature too high, and why the result is one of the most important — and least understood — dials in all of AI. From autoregressive death spirals to the Goldilocks trade-off between coherence and creativity, we break down exactly what went wrong and what it teaches us about how these models actually think.