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Engineers should be able to explain any customer-facing system they have shipped and defend the decisions they made.Their words
I should be able to pull you aside at any moment and ask you to explain any customer-facing system you've shipped. You should be able to clearly explain how it works and defend the decisions you made.
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Resources that are currently dedicated to A.I. would not otherwise sit idle.
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We are done with cynicism, irony, and cowardice. The next turning is here.
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instead of starting with perfect and then working your way up to human, you start with human and then work your way towards perfect.
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In this case, however, the agents did not copy their weights, attempt to procure replacement compute, or take other steps that would be rational to take if their objective was to survive shutdown. So while the agents in the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident were rogue, they were not truly sovereign.
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One of the things I found most exciting in the last couple of years was seeing as model qualities gotten better and and harnesses and tools have gotten better, how many people um that were directors or VPs or SVPs or any of these levels were actually rolling up their sleeves and trying things out.
17 August
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Readrcmnd.app
A Game of ThronesTheir words
First fantasy since LOTR that pulled me in mercilessly.
12 August
10 August
From one piece Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity" 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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We did the the numbers and the numbers are more like 0.3%. We scanned all 67,000. We shipped the we shipped the paper. But you know a correction never travels as far as a scare.
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You know features are the fun part. A new feature is is just a prompt away. The real cost comes after every feature we shipped of course with a configuration option because we didn't want to break everyone's setup.
3 August
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Looking at the results and capabilities from the various labs over the past few weeks I would say we are firmly in this loop now.
2 August
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have I personally shipped some production code and whatnot? Yes. Uh do I think that's really the best use of my time? Not really.
8 July
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So I did something crazy. I pulled out my typewriter and banged away for an hour.
1 July
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So beforehand because of this social divide between programmers and testers. There was a lot of incentive for the testers to have their own language. This is my tool. I know how to run it. I'm going to run it.
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W.Steps Prime telescoping ladderTheir words
I pulled out my W.Steps Prime telescoping ladder test sample today, and realized that I've grown to really like it.
27 May
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If you add that up, you think, "Oh, we shipped a thousand features. Now that adds it to a good product." It actually adds it to a horrible product.
26 April
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for us design actually has always operated as like a bottleneck at the company, which is incredibly important, right? It's intentional that things need to be approved by design to ship.
7 April
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So you kind of got these two separate things that just for historically contingent reasons had both sort of matured around sort of let's say 1980 or so.
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This book is so full of wisdom and insight. I pulled down my copy just now and it's filled with underlines and margin notes.
1 April
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Let's say if my requirement for the engineer was build a system that will scale infinitely to the test of time, it might take a year. We never get there. We'll die before then.
23 March
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Asked when an AI could build a billion-dollar business on its own: AGI has already arrived.Their words
I think it's now. I think we've achieved AGI.
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if improvement stopped you know here the value of an H100 is now predicated on the value that GPD 5.4 four can get out of it instead of the value that GP4 can get out of it and the margins and all that stuff that these labs are doing and they're in a competitive environment so their margins can't go to infinity. Um so you sort of have this like dynamic that is quite interesting in that an H100 is worth more today than it was 3 years ago.
11 March
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Google has produced no innovation since 2008; everything it has shipped since has been acquisitions.Their words
In fact, innovation died on the vine like all together and since I don't know, 2008, there has been no innovation from Google. It's all been acquisitions. They have they've created nothing new.
4 March
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There’s just no way we could have shipped this if we started with static mocks and Figma or if we started with a PRD.
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When applications can generate capabilities on demand, the definition of "what this product does" becomes more fluid. Features aren't just what shipped in the last release, they're also what users will ask for in the next session.
12 November 2025
31 October 2025
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You know, you were in, you were in these worlds, and you went there as a visitor, and they existed almost independent of you. It felt like when you turned up, the world was running. It didn’t feel like you’d started it.
10 October 2025
26 September 2025
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Almost every major figure in AI has now arrived at the critique of large language models he began making in 2019.Their words
But one by one, almost every major thinker in AI has come around to the critique of LLMs that I began presenting in 2019.
19 September 2025
From one piece Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA | Lex Fridman Podcast #481 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Because the French also had a drug regulation. They received three quarters of a liter of red wine per man per day. So, of course, at night they're going to be sleepy on red wine, and the Germans were on meth and they were just running over them.
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And then I found a smoking gun: October 1943. Kuhn acknowledges that he receives half a gram of ergotamine, which is the precursor drug to LSD. And so it's highly likely that the Nazis used LSD together with mescaline in Dachau.
9 August 2025
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People had grown to expect miracles, but GPT-5 is just the latest incremental advance.
1 January 2025
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Waymo now has a service that looks and feels like this in San Francisco, 8 years earlier than I predicted. But it is not what every one was expecting. There are humans in the loop.
20 August 2024
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They could have shipped ChatGPT for example, I heard, in 2019. And they never shipped it because they were so stuck in bureaucracy. But they had everything. They had the data, they had the tech, they had the engineers and they didn’t do it.
2 August 2024
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