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The guardrails i.e. the classifier would also fire on Fable's output and even Fable's internals (i.e. prior to the shutdown people would see it firing when Fable got angry) https:/…

GPT-5 codex variants with xhigh reasoning make great code reviewers.

This would be a great problem to have. Most scenes don't have enough event hosts.

What they're really saying is, "we make an effort to hire smart/effective people, as opposed to the places that don't and as a result have a soul-crushing mediocrity culture". Plac…

Realistically, lots of parts of capitalism never sleep, and having outages at night still costs lots of money, astronomical amounts if there was no one there to fix it.

The authors are basically asking the alignment problem to be well-defined and easy to model. I sympathize. Unfortunately the alignment problem is famously difficult to conceptualiz…

So, this is actually an aspect of superintelligence that makes it way more dangerous than most people think. That we have no way to know if any given alignment technique works for …

Yes, they see it as the top problem, by a large margin. If you do a lot of research about the alignment problem you will see why they think that. In short it's "extremely high dest…

From everything I've heard it's less "not cool" and more "not valued by the Google promotion and advancement system".

> "I don't think it's crazy to believe that half the white-collar staff at Google probably does no real work," he said. "The company has spent billions and billions of dollars per …

Once your number as high as $5.6m, is that even plausibly within the scope of early retirement? I feel like a lot of the value of getting a specific number is getting spooked by it…

I find this very strange, Microsoft has a lot of big internal high-performance services written in C#. You have to be intentional about some things - largely making sure objects ar…

Ask ChatGPT. Literally ask it to explain how to do something, and explain it a different way if that doesn't work. Not sure what my advice would be before 2022 but this supercedes …

Lots of Azure stuff is like that. Some big services internally at Microsoft refused to use their Service Fabric product, it couldn't handle the scale & complex deployment needs.

After many years of learning this lesson over and over again, that much my subconscious works on problems, I've finally learned to trust myself to step away when I feel like I'm gr…

This is a pretty rude generalization, though I get it. As you grow in this career I promise you'll see people with real, serious problems caused/exacerbated by their white-collar j…

It's more like: they'll want evidence it was you who accomplished that. Not for the sake of their product but for the sake of people management.

Scaling up also takes up a lot of resources so you're never able to scale up in response to load without hosing your database even more.

My aunt and uncle, whose main hobbies are drinking beer and watching football, pulled me aside at their daughter's wedding ceremony to tell me how much they love ChatGPT. My friend…

I think when a company is as openly hostile to the interests of its employees as Amazon, you shouldn't be surprised when there's hostility in return.

I worked a little investment firm in college. A few years ago I looked up my boss, the owner. Found out he was in prison! For stealing $10m from a bunch of retirees in a really car…

Company executives all understand that not adjusting for inflation is a salary cut though. When they make this move that's what they're trying to do.

Remember in the hot 2021 hiring market when Coinbase revoked offers because of a layoff? I remember deciding they were on my blacklist after that. I thought their leadership and re…

Microsoft employs a lot of lifers who have no idea how good tooling is on the outside.

yeah there is no way they'd want that kind of traffic unless the expense knobs were turned down. you might have 10 million queries on this thing per day. if it's just 1c/query that…