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Read this korrent: Work produced by one frontier model should be reviewed by a different one, for the same reason a good programmer's work improves under a good peer's review.
Work produced by one frontier model should be reviewed by a different one, for the same reason a good programmer's work improves under a good peer's review.
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: Open-source models cannot keep frontier systems in check, because they will always be much dumber than the frontier. — tap to centre the map on it
Open-source models cannot keep frontier systems in check, because they will always be much dumber than the frontier.
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: Agentic code review raises the floor but cannot be trusted, because the model reading the code is the same model that wrote it, and it will tell you the code is great. — tap to centre the map on it
Agentic code review raises the floor but cannot be trusted, because the model reading the code is the same model that…
Last stated 2 months ago
15 Jul 2026
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Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Line-by-line code review has become an outdated ritual: senior engineers should be giving feedback on how their team instructs AI, not on the code AI wrote. — tap to centre the map on it
Line-by-line code review has become an outdated ritual: senior engineers should be giving feedback on how their…
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: AI-validated pull requests beat human review at exactly the things humans are bad at, which frees the humans to argue about direction instead. — tap to centre the map on it
AI-validated pull requests beat human review at exactly the things humans are bad at, which frees the humans to…
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: Today's models are the student who drilled 10,000 hours for the programming contest, which is exactly why what they learn does not carry anywhere else. — tap to centre the map on it
Today's models are the student who drilled 10,000 hours for the programming contest, which is exactly why what they learn…
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: Lines of code are the wrong artifact to review; what we should be storing and reviewing is an architecture that generates the code to spec. — tap to centre the map on it
Lines of code are the wrong artifact to review; what we should be storing and reviewing is an architecture…
Last stated 4 weeks ago
12 Aug 2026
CM
Charity Majors — holds since 2026-08-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Reviewers can tell the obviously good from the obviously bad, but there is a messy middle where they cannot tell at all. — tap to centre the map on it
Reviewers can tell the obviously good from the obviously bad, but there is a messy middle where they cannot…
Last stated 6 years ago
20 Jan 2021
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José Luis Ricón — holds since 2021-01-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A frontier lab should not spend its researchers harvesting results out of today's models; the payoff is in building the next one. — tap to centre the map on it
A frontier lab should not spend its researchers harvesting results out of today's models; the payoff is…
Last stated 2 months ago
26 Jun 2026
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Noam Brown — holds since 2026-06-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A language model is no substitute for a well-specified conventional algorithm, so it cannot simply be dropped into a complex problem and trusted. — tap to centre the map on it
A language model is no substitute for a well-specified conventional algorithm, so it cannot simply…
Last stated a year ago
7 Jun 2025
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Gary Marcus — holds since 2025-06-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A language model is not using language at all, because language requires an intention to communicate. — tap to centre the map on it
A language model is not using language at all, because language requires an intention to communicate.
Last stated 2 years ago
31 Aug 2024
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Ted Chiang — holds since 2024-08-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A language model's apparent mind is mostly our own bias: it predicts text, and leverages our evolved habit of attributing intentionality to anything that acts human. — tap to centre the map on it
A language model's apparent mind is mostly our own bias: it predicts text, and leverages our evolved habit of…
Last stated 2 years ago
22 Apr 2024
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Sean Carroll — holds since 2024-04-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI-written code makes formal proof necessary, because human review of all that generated code becomes the bottleneck. — tap to centre the map on it
AI-written code makes formal proof necessary, because human review of all that generated code becomes the bottleneck.
Last stated 5 months ago
22 Apr 2026
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Martin Kleppmann — holds since 2026-04-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Formal verification is about to become economical, because models are getting good enough at writing the proofs that humans no longer have to. — tap to centre the map on it
Formal verification is about to become economical, because models are getting good enough at writing the proofs that…
Last stated 5 months ago
22 Apr 2026
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Martin Kleppmann — holds since 2026-04-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Formalising a proof in Lean currently takes about ten times the effort of writing it out: doable, but annoying. — tap to centre the map on it
Formalising a proof in Lean currently takes about ten times the effort of writing it out: doable, but annoying.
Last stated a year ago
14 Jun 2025
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Terence Tao — holds since 2025-06-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: LLMs can write a large fraction of the tedious code a developer will ever need to write, and most code on most projects is tedious. — tap to centre the map on it
LLMs can write a large fraction of the tedious code a developer will ever need to write, and most code on most…
Last stated a year ago
2 Jun 2025
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Thomas Ptacek — holds since 2025-06-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Once a language model reads the results, search can trade precision for recall, because the model does not care that the right link came ninth. — tap to centre the map on it
Once a language model reads the results, search can trade precision for recall, because the model does not care that…
Last stated 2 years ago
19 Jun 2024
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Aravind Srinivas — holds since 2024-06-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The best use of an LLM for learning is as a souped-up search engine that points you at the right human-written resource. — tap to centre the map on it
The best use of an LLM for learning is as a souped-up search engine that points you at the right human-written…
Last stated 2 months ago
30 Jun 2026
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Grant Sanderson — holds since 2026-06-30 — tap for who they are
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Work produced by one frontier model should be reviewed by a different one, for the same reason a good programmer's work improves under a good peer's review.
Last stated 26 Aug 2026 · 2 weeks ago
Holds David Heinemeier Hansson
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Open-source models cannot keep frontier systems in check, because they will always be much dumber than the frontier.
Last stated 1 Sept 2026 · 6 days ago
Holds AC Ajeya Cotra
Similar wording
Agentic code review raises the floor but cannot be trusted, because the model reading the code is the same model that wrote it, and it will tell you the code is great.
Last stated 15 Jul 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds DH Dex Horthy
Similar wording
Line-by-line code review has become an outdated ritual: senior engineers should be giving feedback on how their team instructs AI, not on the code AI wrote.
Last stated 29 Mar 2026 · 5 months ago
Holds CH Chip Huyen
Similar wording
AI-validated pull requests beat human review at exactly the things humans are bad at, which frees the humans to argue about direction instead.
Last stated 12 Aug 2026 · 4 weeks ago
Holds CM Charity Majors
Similar wording
Today's models are the student who drilled 10,000 hours for the programming contest, which is exactly why what they learn does not carry anywhere else.
Last stated 25 Nov 2025 · 9 months ago
Holds IS Ilya Sutskever
Similar wording
Lines of code are the wrong artifact to review; what we should be storing and reviewing is an architecture that generates the code to spec.
Last stated 12 Aug 2026 · 4 weeks ago
Holds CM Charity Majors
Similar wording
Reviewers can tell the obviously good from the obviously bad, but there is a messy middle where they cannot tell at all.
Last stated 20 Jan 2021 · 6 years ago
Holds JR José Luis Ricón
Similar wording
A frontier lab should not spend its researchers harvesting results out of today's models; the payoff is in building the next one.
Last stated 26 Jun 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds NB Noam Brown
Same subject: LLMs
A language model is no substitute for a well-specified conventional algorithm, so it cannot simply be dropped into a complex problem and trusted.
Last stated 7 Jun 2025 · a year ago
Holds GM Gary Marcus
Same subject: LLMs
A language model is not using language at all, because language requires an intention to communicate.
Last stated 31 Aug 2024 · 2 years ago
Holds TC Ted Chiang
Same subject: LLMs
A language model's apparent mind is mostly our own bias: it predicts text, and leverages our evolved habit of attributing intentionality to anything that acts human.
Last stated 22 Apr 2024 · 2 years ago
Holds SC Sean Carroll
Same subject: formal proof
AI-written code makes formal proof necessary, because human review of all that generated code becomes the bottleneck.
Last stated 22 Apr 2026 · 5 months ago
Holds MK Martin Kleppmann
Same subject: formal proof
Formal verification is about to become economical, because models are getting good enough at writing the proofs that humans no longer have to.
Last stated 22 Apr 2026 · 5 months ago
Holds MK Martin Kleppmann
Same subject: formal proof
Formalising a proof in Lean currently takes about ten times the effort of writing it out: doable, but annoying.
Last stated 14 Jun 2025 · a year ago
Holds TT Terence Tao
Same subject: Google
LLMs can write a large fraction of the tedious code a developer will ever need to write, and most code on most projects is tedious.
Last stated 2 Jun 2025 · a year ago
Holds Thomas Ptacek
Same subject: Google
Once a language model reads the results, search can trade precision for recall, because the model does not care that the right link came ninth.
Last stated 19 Jun 2024 · 2 years ago
Holds AS Aravind Srinivas
Same subject: Google
The best use of an LLM for learning is as a souped-up search engine that points you at the right human-written resource.
Last stated 30 Jun 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds GS Grant Sanderson