AnalysisDevelopersAugust 10, 2026

Don't classify, hallucinate: LLM tagging trick

Doug Turnbull's technique: have an LLM invent tags freely, then use vector embeddings to map them to the closest existing vocabulary. Simon Willison highlights it for tagging his 1,856-tag blog, noting it's cheaper than constrained classification.

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