What Ben Kuhn thinks about writing
Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.
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1 dated position, 2024, in their own words. Our reading of what Ben Kuhn has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingRepeated vague platitudes without follow-up specifics signal weak first-principles thinking.
Their wordsIf they don't follow this up with a more specific, precise or nuanced claim, they may not be a strong first-principles thinker.
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