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What’s going to happen to junior engineers?

I work with AI models like the chess players of the late ’90s worked with chess engines. Together, we’re more capable than either of us would be apart. But I don’t know if I could have done this as a junior engineer. At that stage in my career, I was more playing the role of […]

Pure and impure software engineering

those times are gone. Tech companies now have to make money. Hiring has slowed down dramatically, and companies are tightening their belts. A lot of pure engineers have had a rough time navigating this transition. From their perspective, work has all of a sudden become much more political. But what’s really happened is that their […]

I don’t care if my manager writes code

It is difficult to deal with a sloppy worker who has power over you in the organization. If they’re kind-hearted and easy to work with, there’s no problem. But people with institutional power can find it understandably hard to take criticism. And the instant the situation gets charged, it becomes impossible to manage. Can you […]

Joining Meta: 8 Months Later | Roman’s blog

Turns out, Meta moves fast — sometimes too fast. I was reorged one month into my new role. Then three months in, I was reorged again. (Some may argue I was reorged before I even started, since I joined right after a massive org shakeup that threw the whole team into disarray — and the […]

AGI is not a milestone

Worries about AGI and catastrophic risk often conflate capabilities with power. Source: AGI is not a milestone

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Sycophancy is the first LLM “dark pattern” | sean goedecke

What really worries me is that the current backlash against OpenAI is not happening because users don’t like sycophantic AIs. It’s because the latest version of 4o isn’t good at being sycophantic (at least, for jaded AI-familiar engineers). The model is coming on too strong and breaking the illusion. Even if newer versions of 4o […]

AI Horseless Carriages

This demo uses AI to read emails instead of write them from scratch. Each email is categorized and prioritized, and some are auto-archived while others get an automatically-drafted reply. The assistant processes emails individually according to a custom “System Prompt” that explains exactly how I want each one handled. You can try your own labeling […]

A Way Forward | the singularity is nearer

When you compare America to China, it’s really more like comparing Elon to China. ULA is a little joke compared to CNSA. And look into what percent of US car exports are Teslas. The man is singlehandedly beating the rest of the US combined. If you want any hope of standing against China, your political […]