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27 May 2026
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Dax Raad — holds since 2026-05-27 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The verbose enterprise patterns everyone hated are worth having again: coding agents are idiots working around the clock, and you are not the one typing the boilerplate any more. — tap to centre the map on it The verbose enterprise patterns everyone hated are worth having again: coding agents are idiots working around the clock, and you are not the one typing the boilerplate any more. Last stated 3 months ago
27 May 2026
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Dax Raad — holds since 2026-05-27 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The frightening part of giving agents more access is not bad code but irreversible action, so the guardrails to build next are guardrails on reversibility. — tap to centre the map on it The frightening part of giving agents more access is not bad code but irreversible action, so the guardrails to build next are guardrails on reversibility. Last stated 5 months ago
29 Mar 2026
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Chip Huyen — holds since 2026-03-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Safety guardrails make a coding model more dangerous rather than less, because one refusal turns it into something that refuses anything. — tap to centre the map on it Safety guardrails make a coding model more dangerous rather than less, because one refusal turns it into something that refuses anything. Last stated a week ago
31 Aug 2026
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Pieter Levels — holds since 2026-08-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The skill that matters now is not prompt engineering but giving a model a way to verify its own work, and it is the thing people most often get wrong. — tap to centre the map on it The skill that matters now is not prompt engineering but giving a model a way to verify its own work, and it is the thing people most often get wrong. Last stated a month ago
27 Jul 2026
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Boris Cherny — holds since 2026-07-27 — tap for who they are
Same subject: There is no point arguing about whether or when engineers will ship code they have not read; the only useful question is what it would take. — tap to centre the map on it There is no point arguing about whether or when engineers will ship code they have not read; the only useful question is what it would take. Last stated 4 weeks ago
12 Aug 2026
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Charity Majors — holds since 2026-08-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Programmers who loved the mechanical act of coding are under threat; those who wanted to build things are not. — tap to centre the map on it Programmers who loved the mechanical act of coding are under threat; those who wanted to build things are not. Last stated 2 weeks ago
26 Aug 2026
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-08-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Letting automated loops build everything without guardrails on blast radius and on quality is a recipe for disaster. — tap to centre the map on it Letting automated loops build everything without guardrails on blast radius and on quality is a recipe for disaster. Last stated 3 weeks ago
19 Aug 2026
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Addy Osmani — holds since 2026-08-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Much of the wisdom programmers pass on to each other is nonsense that nobody ever tested, and refusing to be dogmatic about untested practice is what marks out a good engineer. — tap to centre the map on it Much of the wisdom programmers pass on to each other is nonsense that nobody ever tested, and refusing to be dogmatic about untested practice is what marks out a good engineer. Last stated 2 weeks ago
26 Aug 2026
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Casey Muratori — holds since 2026-08-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A human being is not an AGI: we lack a huge amount of knowledge and rely on continual learning instead, so continual learning is what superintelligence should mean. — tap to centre the map on it A human being is not an AGI: we lack a huge amount of knowledge and rely on continual learning instead, so continual learning is what superintelligence should mean. Last stated 9 months ago
25 Nov 2025
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Ilya Sutskever — holds since 2025-11-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A saboteur among our AI investigators would be hard to spot, because these models are sloppy and spiky enough that a suspicious error just looks like ordinary incompetence. — tap to centre the map on it A saboteur among our AI investigators would be hard to spot, because these models are sloppy and spiky enough that a suspicious error just looks like ordinary incompetence. Last stated 6 days ago
1 Sept 2026
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Ajeya Cotra — holds since 2026-09-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A superintelligence needs no consciousness, emotions or malice to be dangerous; a goal system slightly misaligned with ours is enough. — tap to centre the map on it A superintelligence needs no consciousness, emotions or malice to be dangerous; a goal system slightly misaligned with ours is enough. Last stated 9 years ago
24 Oct 2017
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Émile P. Torres — holds since 2017-10-24 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A benchmark that ranks Claude Code last while it stays first in use is measuring the wrong thing, and has been for a year. — tap to centre the map on it A benchmark that ranks Claude Code last while it stays first in use is measuring the wrong thing, and has been for a year. Last stated 4 days ago
3 Sept 2026
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Dax Raad — holds since 2026-09-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A language model asked to summarize its own system prompt risks that prompt's content biasing the summary it produces. — tap to centre the map on it A language model asked to summarize its own system prompt risks that prompt's content biasing the summary it produces. Last stated 5 days ago
2 Sept 2026
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Simon Willison — holds since 2026-09-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A trust that owns the mission protects a company better than founder control does, which is why Anthropic needs no dual-class shares. — tap to centre the map on it A trust that owns the mission protects a company better than founder control does, which is why Anthropic needs no dual-class shares. Last stated 4 months ago
10 May 2026
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Eric Ries — holds since 2026-05-10 — 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 2 years ago
18 Mar 2024
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Sam Altman — holds since 2024-03-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A technique that lets an AI model's reasoning shift outside its visible Chain of Thought is dangerous, both because it works and because a leading lab is willing to deploy it. — tap to centre the map on it A technique that lets an AI model's reasoning shift outside its visible Chain of Thought is dangerous, both because it works and because a leading lab is willing to deploy it. Last stated 4 days ago
3 Sept 2026
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Zvi Mowshowitz — holds since 2026-09-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A tiny language model inventing a plausible-sounding name is the same phenomenon as a large one confidently stating a false fact. — tap to centre the map on it A tiny language model inventing a plausible-sounding name is the same phenomenon as a large one confidently stating a false fact. Last stated 7 months ago
12 Feb 2026
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Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2026-02-12 — tap for who they are
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Redefining the engineer's job as building guardrails is not novel — it is the same problem as making a junior engineer effective, which we never solved either.
Holds Read this korrent →
The verbose enterprise patterns everyone hated are worth having again: coding agents are idiots working around the clock, and you are not the one typing the boilerplate any more.
Holds
The frightening part of giving agents more access is not bad code but irreversible action, so the guardrails to build next are guardrails on reversibility.
Holds CH Chip Huyen
Safety guardrails make a coding model more dangerous rather than less, because one refusal turns it into something that refuses anything.
Holds
The skill that matters now is not prompt engineering but giving a model a way to verify its own work, and it is the thing people most often get wrong.
Holds
There is no point arguing about whether or when engineers will ship code they have not read; the only useful question is what it would take.
Holds CM Charity Majors
Programmers who loved the mechanical act of coding are under threat; those who wanted to build things are not.
Holds
Letting automated loops build everything without guardrails on blast radius and on quality is a recipe for disaster.
Holds AO Addy Osmani
Much of the wisdom programmers pass on to each other is nonsense that nobody ever tested, and refusing to be dogmatic about untested practice is what marks out a good engineer.
Holds CM Casey Muratori
A human being is not an AGI: we lack a huge amount of knowledge and rely on continual learning instead, so continual learning is what superintelligence should mean.
Holds IS Ilya Sutskever
A saboteur among our AI investigators would be hard to spot, because these models are sloppy and spiky enough that a suspicious error just looks like ordinary incompetence.
Holds AC Ajeya Cotra
A superintelligence needs no consciousness, emotions or malice to be dangerous; a goal system slightly misaligned with ours is enough.
Holds ÉT Émile P. Torres
A benchmark that ranks Claude Code last while it stays first in use is measuring the wrong thing, and has been for a year.
Holds
A language model asked to summarize its own system prompt risks that prompt's content biasing the summary it produces.
Holds
A trust that owns the mission protects a company better than founder control does, which is why Anthropic needs no dual-class shares.
Holds ER Eric Ries
A startup should not begin life as a nonprofit and bolt a for-profit arm on later, whatever OpenAI's own history suggests.
Holds
A technique that lets an AI model's reasoning shift outside its visible Chain of Thought is dangerous, both because it works and because a leading lab is willing to deploy it.
Holds ZM Zvi Mowshowitz
A tiny language model inventing a plausible-sounding name is the same phenomenon as a large one confidently stating a false fact.
Holds