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Read this korrent: Context engineering has stayed relevant for a year because it is grounded in how transformer attention works, and it will matter to anyone building on AI until post-transformer models arrive.
Context engineering has stayed relevant for a year because it is grounded in how transformer attention works, and it will matter to anyone building on AI until post-transformer models arrive.
Last stated 3 months ago
15 Jul 2026
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Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A transduction model can rely entirely on self-attention for input and output representations without sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution. — tap to centre the map on it
A transduction model can rely entirely on self-attention for input and output representations without sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.
Last stated 9 years ago
12 Jun 2017
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Illia Polosukhin — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
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Jakob Uszkoreit — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
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Niki Parmar — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
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Ashish Vaswani — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
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Noam Shazeer — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
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Aidan N. Gomez — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
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Same subject: Self-attention can yield more interpretable models. — tap to centre the map on it
Self-attention can yield more interpretable models.
Last stated 9 years ago
12 Jun 2017
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Illia Polosukhin — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
JU
Jakob Uszkoreit — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
NP
Niki Parmar — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
AV
Ashish Vaswani — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
NS
Noam Shazeer — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
AG
Aidan N. Gomez — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
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Same subject: Research on transformer-style attention mechanisms has not yet reached diminishing returns compared to alternative approaches. — tap to centre the map on it
Research on transformer-style attention mechanisms has not yet reached diminishing returns compared to alternative approaches.
Last stated 5 years ago
3 Jun 2021
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Gwern — holds since 2021-06-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI fluency will eventually become an ambient thing, though it is important language right now. — tap to centre the map on it
AI fluency will eventually become an ambient thing, though it is important language right now.
Last stated 5 months ago
19 May 2026
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Tommy Geoco — holds since 2026-05-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI models need to arrive with the context of someone who has worked inside an organisation for years, not a blank slate. — tap to centre the map on it
AI models need to arrive with the context of someone who has worked inside an organisation for years, not a blank slate.
Last stated a year ago
16 Jun 2025
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Jared Kaplan — holds since 2025-06-16 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The fundamental skill of using AI well is stating a problem with enough context that it is solvable without any further information. — tap to centre the map on it
The fundamental skill of using AI well is stating a problem with enough context that it is solvable without any further information.
Last stated a year ago
18 Sept 2025
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Tobias Lütke — holds since 2025-09-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to. — tap to centre the map on it
A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to.
Last stated 3 months ago
15 Jul 2026
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Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: What sits in a model's context is far clearer to it than its training data, which is trillions of tokens stirred into a soup of parameters. — tap to centre the map on it
What sits in a model's context is far clearer to it than its training data, which is trillions of tokens stirred into a soup of parameters.
Last stated 3 months ago
30 Jul 2026
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Jeff Dean — holds since 2026-07-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A PHP vulnerability found with GPT-5.6 Sol will cause havoc this week. — tap to centre the map on it
A PHP vulnerability found with GPT-5.6 Sol will cause havoc this week.
Last stated yesterday
21 Oct 2026
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Peter Steinberger — holds since 2026-10-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A startup should not begin life as a nonprofit and bolt a for-profit arm on later, whatever OpenAI's own history suggests. — tap to centre the map on it
A startup should not begin life as a nonprofit and bolt a for-profit arm on later, whatever OpenAI's own history suggests.
Last stated 3 years ago
18 Mar 2024
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Sam Altman — holds since 2024-03-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Advertising was a necessary phase for the internet but a momentary industry, and an AI people pay for is better because they know the answers are not influenced by advertisers. — tap to centre the map on it
Advertising was a necessary phase for the internet but a momentary industry, and an AI people pay for is better because they know the answers are not influenced by advertisers.
Last stated 3 years ago
18 Mar 2024
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Sam Altman — holds since 2024-03-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: "Scaling" was powerful because it was one word: naming a research direction is what tells a whole field what to do next. — tap to centre the map on it
"Scaling" was powerful because it was one word: naming a research direction is what tells a whole field what to do next.
Last stated 11 months ago
25 Nov 2025
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Ilya Sutskever — holds since 2025-11-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A benchmark result should be reported under a stated budget, or as a curve against test-time compute — never as a single number. — tap to centre the map on it
A benchmark result should be reported under a stated budget, or as a curve against test-time compute — never as a single number.
Last stated 4 months ago
26 Jun 2026
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Noam Brown — holds since 2026-06-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A lab should spend most of its compute on research rather than on building the next model, because research is where the tenfold yearly efficiency gains come from. — tap to centre the map on it
A lab should spend most of its compute on research rather than on building the next model, because research is where the tenfold yearly efficiency gains come from.
Last stated 7 months ago
13 Mar 2026
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Dylan Patel — holds since 2026-03-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A CEO who sends out an AI-written strategy memo is modelling that it is fine to outsource thinking and strategy. — tap to centre the map on it
A CEO who sends out an AI-written strategy memo is modelling that it is fine to outsource thinking and strategy.
Last stated 4 weeks ago
27 Sept 2026
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Molly Graham — holds since 2026-09-27 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A stream of AI-written papers with any error rate at all becomes insufferable, because finding the error costs more than the paper is worth even at ninety-nine percent. — tap to centre the map on it
A stream of AI-written papers with any error rate at all becomes insufferable, because finding the error costs more than the paper is worth even at ninety-nine percent.
Last stated 4 months ago
30 Jun 2026
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Grant Sanderson — holds since 2026-06-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI can now produce in minutes work that used to take weeks to build. — tap to centre the map on it
AI can now produce in minutes work that used to take weeks to build.
Last stated 5 months ago
26 May 2026
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Carlos Alexandro Becker — holds since 2026-05-26 — tap for who they are
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