Would extend with “There are a lot of people who think management adds no value, who will discover how little value management had been adding once they are themselves management.”
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Building Experimentation Culture for R&D Excellence
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Sometimes that is doing what they won’t. Sometimes that is doing what they can’t. Sometimes it is building an experimentation machine and culture that will just churn out a large portion of the world’s R&D in your field specifically.
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Competitive Strategy: Maintaining AI Advantage Over Three Years
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The game, when you’re three years ahead of a hypothetical competitor who has a budget of a few billion dollars and a mandate from the CEO, is figuring out what you need to do such that, three years from now, you will be six years ahead. https://t.co/dBq7KD9zCc
— Patrick McKenzie (@patio11) 5 mai 2025The game, when you’re three years ahead of a hypothetical competitor who has a budget of a few billion dollars and a mandate from the CEO, is figuring out what you need to do such that, three years from now, you will be six years ahead.
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LLM Explanations and the Question of AI Belief
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And then the LLM in trying to explain this to us says “Oh yeah native foliage duh.” And who knows, it may believe that, to the extent it believes anything.
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CoT Mechanisms: Causal Explanation or Hidden Mathematical Processes
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I wonder how much the CoT actually describes a causal mechanism and how much is essentially LARPing to cover something much weirder happening under the covers. e.g. Is there a vector that is essentially doing some pixel distribution math that no human would think of doing?
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CS Agent Outperforms LLM: Human Detection Through Writing Patterns
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Five stars for the CS agent; had it sorted in less than a minute. And you know they’re not AI because an LLM would have matched speaking style and presence/absence of punctuation and capital letters.
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Amazon’s AI Customer Service Flow Criticized as Deliberately Confusing
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I had to do a refund on an Amazon order lost in shipment, and the AI-powered flow before you can speak to an agent is so bizarrely incomprehensible that if I were a cynical man I’d assume it was intentional.
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Map/Reduce with Actual Maps: CS Perspective
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My CS brain can’t help but say that this is map/reduce with actual maps involved.
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Scaling non-scalable solutions: paradox or necessity?
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Not for the first time, by the way, is “How do you do a thing that doesn’t scale?” answered by “Scale it.”
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LLMs Achieve Seven-Year-Old Planning and Execution Abilities
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Non-ironically an important milestone for LLMs: can demonstrate at least as much planning and execution ability as a human seven year old. https://t.co/yiYunaTCSE
— Patrick McKenzie (@patio11) 3 mai 2025Non-ironically an important milestone for LLMs: can demonstrate at least as much planning and execution ability as a human seven year old.