Preface (Optional) Let’s get the hardest part out of the way first: there’s things we all do in our own lives that are not just suboptimal, but fundamentally against our morals. Not just things we simply disregard in the discourse of our lives, but ways in which we
I think lately we're all seeing how effective AI and agents are at solving quite a few problems. We set up an objective to run through, and the AI executes. The more verifiable the domain, the better the agents perform. It's why things like coding are
Happy New Year! How was your break? What did you do? Vibe coded? An agent you say–what does it do? Ah interesting! If you work in tech right now, there’s quite a few of these conversations floating around the office. We’ve all been seduced by the allure
Since the original mechanistic interpretability research, I found a big chasm in my understanding between "this neuron fires every time Trump is in the input" and 6D hyper-structures that correspond to understanding line breaks. With so much to learn in the transformer space, I parked mechanistic interpretability for
There is a meaningful distinction between an anxious pull to do more and a vitalizing attraction to explore what is possible. With the inundation of self-improvement, hustle culture, and high-performing co-workers it's easy to feel as if you're operating from a deficit. However, there is another
Some research papers have such intuitive titles it feels like we've read them without even opening them up. Even listening to Dario's podcast interview with Lex Friedman left me feeling as though I understood the gist of scaling: Throw more compute at the problem, get better
We relentlessly check our messages, out of fear we'll miss something urgent. We keep those walls white, for fear of picking the wrong color. We hold off on booking that trip, because what if it's not the right place or the right time? We pass by
A week ago, I found myself returning from a month long "recharge", a perk still offered by Meta after 5 years of service. As you can imagine, returning to work at any place is going to feel like information overload, but I think that's exaggerated when
One deep pain I feel, that I suspect is quite common to the human experience, is an appreciation for learning only after I left the education system. When the whole world is in front of us as children and into our teenage years, I think we become overwhelmingly excited by