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Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by zitoshi »

KeplerBoy wrote: post #248
zitoshi wrote: post #213

interesting signal about where AI is... It actually feels like a signal that it is in a tapering phase. As in, if it was in a growth phase a freeform, solo - collab with who you want, would be more beneficial. But in a tapering phase you'd want structure and to be in the private formal meetings. just an idea

Feels like the opposite. Stuff is still happening and you need to be part of a big lab to see it. NanoGPT is fun but at some point you need that datacenter.

I would guess he's never left out at whats happening, because he's still highly connected with those people even when not at the company.

I also feel like there are many ways he can access compute for use of his own ideas.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by chandureddyvari »

raincole wrote: post #230
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.

Name three things they destroyed?

I was to talking to a YC founder, his biggest fear is waking up to a new Claude launch making his startup obsolete the next morning.

Similar sentiment shared with other startup founders- check on x about all VCs talking about moats against big labs.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by radlad »

jazzyjackson wrote: post #512
soundworlds wrote: post #502

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Totally. They are the only ones who said no to letting their tech being used for illegal use cases. This doesn't automatically make them the great virtuous team. It just means the rest of the pack are toxic as all hell.

They didn’t even take the position that it was unethical to participate in surveillance and kill chains, just that the tech isn’t ready yet so it’s irresponsible to use it that way.

The position they took sounds much more politically feasible than the one you suggest they should've taken, at a time when the White House was threatening them with the Defense Production Act.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by utopiah »

joe_mamba wrote: post #496
wodenokoto wrote: post #487

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Speaking of, how did he not lose credibility at “full self driving next year, better buy it now”-Tesla? It might be Elon who went and said that and said they don’t need lidar, but as director of AI and auto vision Karpathy bears the responsibility for those features.

>Speaking of, how did he not lose credibility at “full self driving next year, better buy it now”-Tesla? That I also want to know. He bailed out of Tesla right when the limitations of his "LIDAR-less cameras only self driving" system were becoming obvious, and nobody asked him about the hindsight of this obvious fuckup. >but as director of AI and auto vision Karpathy bears the responsibility for those features. Exact…

> vision only is better since Lidar pollutes the sensor fusion data.

Did he never experienced optical illusions? I don't get it.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by utopiah »

ElProlactin wrote: post #528
csa wrote: post #514

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> 1. Figma (in progress) Hmmm… maybe. I think not. It really depends on your other claims below, with which I mostly disagree. 2. Most entry level jobs for current graduates in white collar fields. (See hiring rates for these positions) Maybe a small amount. Entry level white collar jobs have a low hiring rate for other reasons, imho. 3. Thousands of layoffs (mostly attributed to AI use, while not 100%, the Anthropic…

I personally know several digital marketing people who were "tech savvy" but had no programming experience who have launched websites that would have cost them thousands of dollars to build. So much of what you'd previously pay a "real" freelance developer or web "agency" to build is no less "garbage" than what engineers would call the average vibe-coded web app. Claude in particular is today really surprisingly good…

> digital marketing people who were "tech savvy" but had no programming experience who have launched websites that would have cost them thousands of dollars to build.

Static Websites have been commoditizatized for decades now. We had :

- one-click deploy Open-Source CMS

- single page places like Geocities providing own domain

- design templates where you just add your own logo, tagline, etc

This is just yet another way to do that but the ability to have that result was there for "digital marketing people" since the early 2000s, if not earlier. In fact since the Internet existed there have been tools and resources for non developer to make Websites.

PS: it's roughly the same for mobile Apps, namely having a basic App like a ToDo list had had scaffolding for years, including countless dedicated to non-developers.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by dang »

jonnyasmar wrote: post #513
aykutseker wrote: post #295

the glorified marketer framing in this thread is missing the bigger signal. karpathy publicly pausing eureka labs to join anthropic is an ai founder of his caliber effectively conceding that verticals get eaten by frontier upgrades.for everyone here building on top of foundation, that's the actual news

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Could you please not post generated comments to HN? It's not allowed here. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079.

We ban accounts that do this and I don't want to ban you, so please write everything that you post to HN by hand.

Of course, it's impossible to know for sure what was LLM processed or not, but we're getting complaints about some of your posts and, upon inspection, the complaints seem justified.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by siren2026 »

solenoid0937 wrote: post #488
siren2026 wrote: post #445

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Ah yes, right [1] https://www.obsolete.pub/p/exclusive-anthropic-is-quietly-ba... [2] https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/25/tech/anthropic-safety-pol... [3] https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-dials-back-ai-safety-c...

You didn't read your own sources. The red lines are still in place.

Oh I read them. If I had to bet I follow this more closely than you do.

Some redlines are still in place. Not the same ones and it is very clear based on this precedent that red lines can be moved at any times whenever it is convenient for Anthropic as shown by the above articles.

So as I said, all a marketing gimmick.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by druub »

stingraycharles wrote: post #489
ollin wrote: post #246

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Specifically it looks like he's planning to extend the ideas from https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch into a larger effort towards recursive training improvement [1]: > Excited to welcome Andrej to the Pretraining team! He'll be building a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pretraining research itself. I can’t think of anyone better suited to do it — looking forward to what we build together! [1] https:/…

Am I the only one who wasn’t particularly impressed by AutoResearch? If you looked at what the agent was actually doing, it was just tuning parameters mostly, not really trying different novel approaches. I couldn’t help myself but consider this mostly a very inefficient variant of hyperparameter optimization, but someone correct me if I’m wrong, I may be looking at this too pessimistic.

Ever since AlphaEvolve - the idea that if you build a harness which can evaluate solutions and give LLMs a database where they can keep storing their work and then sample from it - they do find non-trivial solutions over time leaning from their own past ideas.

It is the ultimate manifestation of test-time scaling. I think karpathy just popularised it.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by siren2026 »

solenoid0937 wrote: post #486
siren2026 wrote: post #442

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Imagine being gullible enough to think any of those companies would ever chose AI safety over losing their monopolies in AI. AI safety is important. My point is: you should have zero trust in those companies to actually care about AI Safety besides the marketing and PR aspect of it. Incentives matter.

Dunno, Anthropic delayed Mythos and refused to break their red lines for the DoW. But you seem to harbor this irrational hatred for them and the AI safety crowd so I'm not sure this discussion has much value.

Delaying mythos has been the most effective free marketing campaign you could ever imagine. "Our model is so good and dangerous we cannot release it yet" giving you free press and coverage as you prove here once again.

>> this irrational hatred for them and the AI safety crowd

You seem to equal AI Safety with Anthropic. That's where I disagree completely. I love AI Safety but I will not make the obvious mistake in believing Anthropic have any goal in AI Safety beyond whatever will give them free marketing. Again, incentives matter.

You seem to work for them or have vested interest in them. There is no point in continuing here as it is tough to make you understand something when your salary depends on you not understanding it.

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