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Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by alexandre_m »

ActorNightly wrote: post #382
tedggh wrote: post #207

He’s a great educator and seems like a genuinely nice guy, at least on interviews. I hope he continues with his teaching career on the side, although the crazy amount of NDAs he probably had to sign may make that effort a bit difficult.

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> Its a bit concerning when someone supposedly intelligent still speaks somewhat highly of someone so clearly not.

Have you considered the possibility that someone you regard as extremely intelligent is speaking from real-life experience and direct proximity when they say another person is smart?

Or perhaps your bias toward Musk make that impossible to even consider.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by m3kw9 »

cbm-vic-20 wrote: post #366
ryeguy_24 wrote: post #20

Funny. He foreshadowed this in a recent interview. Saying that he may fall out of touch with evolving approaches and if any of the frontier labs would have him, he’d be interested. https://youtu.be/kwSVtQ7dziU?t=47m50s

I wonder if he had to answer a few Leetcode / Codility problems first.

The warm up rounds to filter out the fluffy includes asking what is a Matrix, do this calculation, what is a LLM. 2nd round include stuff like explain the binary search algorithm, write a double linked list in C, and a take home project.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by m3kw9 »

nightski wrote: post #228

Anyone else fearing Anthropic more and more each day? Not from a perspective that they are doing so well, but rather that it's like an industry tornado, sucking up and destroying everything in it's path.

Without Karpathy, the AI field hasn't skipped a beat, but he is certainly a great addition to any team.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by m3kw9 »

orliesaurus wrote: post #160

Anthropic is on a roll: - best harness overall (well maybe until like a month ago when gpt5.5 and codex came out) - acquires bun - acquires stainless for SDKs - deal with Elon for compute - karpathy what else did I miss?

Having crappy limits, lots of down times, 4.7opus isn't all that.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by HarHarVeryFunny »

bpodgursky wrote: post #346
tsunamifury wrote: post #343

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is such a disappointing reality that people believe this. 1) advancements in AI are made by large teams of brilliant people (and individuals who take outsized credit) 2) AGI is defintionless buzz word 3) advancements in AI will need significant changes in either how the model works or fundamentally new non existent datasets.

lol this is just not true sorry. Claude code was one person's idea as a pet project and now it's singlehandedly 5x'd Anthropic's valuation. Sometimes single people matter, that's life.

I think both are true. Claude Code was one man's experimental project, but it's an application of AI, not AI itself.

Anthropic is a large company, with thousands of employees, and seems to be 100% (maybe 200%) LLM and scale pilled. All the advances from one model generation to the next are the result of dozens of experiments first at small scale then at larger scale, all competing for the same "development compute" portion of their overall "development + inference" compute resource.

In this environment, even if there are researchers who have ideas not on the "LLM + scale is all you need" path that Dario seems hell bent on, there seems to be not much chance that these ideas can compete for resources and compute with the mainstream experiments that the company believes their future depends on.

Maybe an individual developer like Sutskever, engaged purely in research rather than manning a barely turnable oil tanker, can make a difference, but at a company like Anthropic it seems way less likely. Cherny's baby is 100% aligned with Anthropic's mission of selling LLM tokens. Someone else fighting the mission, trying to pivot Anthropic in a new better direction is not likely to have such luck.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by shuckles »

bdangubic wrote: post #364
shuckles wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No it doesn’t? It matches his skills to the lab’s needs. Karpathy is a media personality, manager, and educator far more than he is a hands-on researcher.

he’s not a hands-in researcher just like lebron is not a basketball player but media personality :)

It’s kind of useless to argue through metaphors here. There are a hundred researchers with more significant contributions to theory and practice than Karpathy. If you disagree, I’d love to see what papers or implementations you think he’s offered that pushed SOTA.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by toxik »

alexandre_m wrote: post #401
ActorNightly wrote: post #382

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> Its a bit concerning when someone supposedly intelligent still speaks somewhat highly of someone so clearly not. Have you considered the possibility that someone you regard as extremely intelligent is speaking from real-life experience and direct proximity when they say another person is smart? Or perhaps your bias toward Musk make that impossible to even consider.

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