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People in industry routinely short-circuit their reasoning, adopting what they heard in a conference talk instead of thinking it through from first principles.

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What Martin Kleppmann actually said

  1. Martin Kleppmann Computer science researcher at Cambridge
    Often people in industry I feel like sort of have short circuit reasoning. Like don't maybe don't quite reason something through from first principles but just like oh I heard this from a conference talk I'm just going to go with that

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    22 Apr 2026 · video · 1h 25m · spoken · machine transcript

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