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The labs are all very interested in bio right now. Demis is working on Isomorphic rn (Google's version of that) but I could imagine a lab tempting him away to work on their equival…

Reward hacking will continue to be a problem. For sufficiently astonishing AI-created results, we must remember to ask if AI has not instead found it easier to elaborately fool us.…

effort level is a separate parameter, and is probably what they want

I think Pangram is de facto measuring the default Claude voice. It doesn't fire for me on technical GPT writing.

My entire office of nerdy engineers has been gathering 'round to watch the world cup for an entire month. Judging by this, the world cup does seem to be of some interest to hackers…

Training and serving large models does require increasingly more compute, though. (The Chinese labs have clearly found some massive optimizations, but my point was that you'd think…

I wonder how the Chinese labs are training a 3 trillion parameter model on what has to be vastly smaller compute resources. If the U.S. compute advantage is persistent, it's hard t…

Yeah, it's really tempting to try to fundamentally change the way you interface with the world but it's rarely very sustainable. I've found that trying to change my social environm…

Writing detailed specs is an important tool to help the LLM translate the idea in your head to code. The spec is an intermediate artifact.

The non-determinism is one of the relevant features of this layer of abstraction! And one can learn to validate that the translation is being done properly. Some of the tools you h…

I was quite worried about having to code when I interviewed recently. A two- or three- year layoff is a lot. Turns out that it didn't really make much difference! After a few weeks…

Anthropic's goals here are not just harm reduction, but to stop competitors from making bio discoveries using Claude.

Unbelievable in which direction? I've had years in which most people in my immediate surroundings were sick for weeks or months (likely exacerbated by mold, school, and travel). Al…

This seems kind of weirdly confrontational? Elastic was founded by the guy who created elasticsearch. Why shouldn't he make a living selling services around the software he created…

This feels overly cynical. My long-time friend took a job at Meta (over equally compelling financial alternatives) because the manager pitched the team and growth prospects well. (…

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Given how many studies have built-in sampling bias or other surprising assumptions, I still welcome people gut-checking it vs their experience. (Plus, the stories are interesting, …

Having worked for a business that made a serious go of running everything out of stored procedures, I have to say that lack of version control was a huge problem and effectively li…

lack of version control, clunky language mechanics, performance issues, etc.

This has been tried, but thousand-line stored procedures are truly a nightmare.

The description of the interview seems like it was explicitly non-technical, though.