Ben Kuhn
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- New post! "You should try contra dancing" I took a break from managementposting to pitch you all on my favorite niche activity: 25 Apr
- You should try contra dancing 24 Apr
- One thing I love about Anthropic is that our hiring process often includes a disclaimer that we will absolutely do something that zeros our equity if we think… 28 Feb Quoting@AnthropicAIA statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
- Do I know anyone who works at @Etsy and could escalate a ticket? They arbitrarily decided they were 100% sure my (passkey 2fa'd) email was hacked and banned me… 14 Oct 2025
- You know your AI lab is run by physicists when they plot revenue on a log scale 21 Jun 2025
- New post! "Impact, agency, and taste" (link below): 19 Apr 2025
- Impact, agency, and taste 19 Apr 2025
- New post! "Advice for time management as a manager" (link ⬇️): 2 Apr 2025
- Advice for time management as a manager 1 Apr 2025
- How I've run major projects 16 Mar 2025
- New post! "Categories of leadership on technical teams:" https://t.co/qea715y2LA A writeup of a framework I reference a lot when talking about how to structure… 22 Jul 2024
- Categories of leadership on technical teams 21 Jul 2024
- New post! "Trust as a bottleneck to growing teams quickly": https://t.co/rlQBvWkQ2d Something I've been thinking about a lot given how fast Anthropic's been gr… 13 Jul 2024
- Trust as a bottleneck to growing teams quickly 13 Jul 2024
- "Mechanistic interpretability never does anything useful" they said "It'll never beat a standard baseline" they said "Talk to me when you ship something" they… 23 May 2024 Quoting@AnthropicAIThis week, we showed how altering internal "features" in our AI, Claude, could change its behavior. We found a feature that can make Claude…
- Talent density at Anthropic continues to increase :) 16 May 2024 Quoting@mikeykI'm thrilled to announce that I've joined @AnthropicAI as their Chief Product Officer! The team at Anthropic is exceptional, and I felt at…
- A bit surprised by how little I've heard about GCP literally fat-finger *deleting a customer account.* Seems like their business was only saved by cross-cloud… 12 May 2024
- Milan is really great! If you're the w̶r̶o̶n̶g̶ other kind of engineer, you should think about working with him :) 10 May 2024
- I really liked this writeup. I think it does a good job of capturing by far my favorite thing about Claude 3: 6 Mar 2024 Quoting@itsurboyevanClaude 3 is a marvel. It is the most human-feeling, creative, and naturalistic AI that I have ever interacted with. @AnthropicAI crushed it…
- Wrote a post on how I build and run behavioral interviews! I used to think that "tell me about a time when..." questions were all bullshit—people answered ever… 26 Feb 2024
- How I build and run behavioral interviews 25 Feb 2024
- Related: I’m hiring for a new team that I’m really excited about, to build infrastructure and tools for our RL research. I’m hiring for both a manager and engi… 12 Feb 2024 Quoting@benkuhnI’m going to start managing some research teams at Anthropic! (Specifically RL.) I want to learn more about how to support research groups…
- I’m going to start managing some research teams at Anthropic! (Specifically RL.) I want to learn more about how to support research groups specifically—Twitter… 12 Feb 2024
- New post! "Some mistakes I made as a new manager": https://t.co/bpwSbDWJqY (Specifically, ones I've also noticed are an attractor for other folks.) If you're a… 23 Apr 2023
- Some mistakes I made as a new manager 23 Apr 2023
- I've been reflecting recently on Wave's growth spurt in 2019-21. Most teams grew 2-4x a year for multiple years, and culture and effectiveness stayed remarkabl… 4 Mar 2023
- A lot of talk about managing focuses on "decisionmaking": how to run decision meetings, who gets to sign off on what, how they flow up + down the hierarchy...… 28 Feb 2023
- One thing I love about both Wave (past job) and Anthropic (current) is how much everyone who works here cares about the mission. I think it's easy to underrate… 26 Feb 2023
- Leaving Wave, joining Anthropic 1 Feb 2023
- Why and how to write things on the Internet 29 Dec 2022
- Complice 1 Aug 2020 Loved
- Focus 1 Aug 2020 Recommends
- uBlock Origin 1 Aug 2020 Loved
- Witch 1 Aug 2020 Uses
- Kindle4RSS 1 Aug 2020 Uses
- Slack 1 Aug 2020 Disliked
- nativefier 1 Aug 2020 Uses
- Cree 100W-equivalent 5000K LED bulbs 1 Nov 2019 Uses