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I want to discuss an idea I'm coming to believe strongly about how to design complex compound AI systems , from my last few years of building with frontier models. But to get there, I want to lay out some shared foundation about the idea of composition in

One of the beautiful privileges of living in a city like New York is that you can just go for a stroll around town and encounter pieces of art that could plausibly belong in museums. My favorite such area of the city is the Rockefeller Plaza. Imagine your

I will never forget the first time I watched Soul . It was not the haunting soundtrack from the Reznor and Ross duo nor the whirlwind storyline that glued my eyes to the makeshift projector wall I had fashioned last minute out of my window curtains but th

Hypothesis: information work is overwhelmingly bottlenecked on availability of high-signal context more than by correct inference over the context. If right, implies higher ROI-per-flop of context building over pure logical inference.h/t @anandnk24

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I've joined Thrive Capital as an EIR and advisor, working with the Thrive team to support our founders in understanding and deploying AI thoughtfully, while furthering my own research and explorations around AI interpretability, knowledge representations,

It's not easy, but with a lifetime of dedication to the craft, many people become virtuoso guitar players. They learn the intricate nuances and details of the instrument and attain a level of mastery over it as if it were an extension of their mind. Some

When I discuss interfaces on this blog, I'm most often referring to software interfaces: intermediating mechanisms from our human intentions to computers and the knowledge within them. But the concept of a human interface extends far before it and beyond