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Eugene Yan

What Eugene Yan thinks about AI alignment

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Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.

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3 dated positions, 2025 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Eugene Yan has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingDelegating a task to an AI agent only works if the output can be verified, which requires defining success criteria first.

    Their wordsYou can't delegate what you can't verify, so this requires first defining success criteria and metrics.

    ↗How to Work and Compound with AIeugeneyan.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

  2. 8 months earlier

  3. Our readingTraditional recommender systems predict user behavior well but cannot be steered via natural language or explain their own reasoning.

    Their wordsThey excel at predicting what a user will click or buy next, but can't be steered via natural language or reason on their choices.

    ↗Training an LLM-RecSys Hybrid for Steerable Recs with Semantic IDseugeneyan.com 2nd of 2 in this piece

  4. 3 months earlier

  5. Our readingPeople find pairwise comparisons of answers easier and more consistent to judge than absolute ratings

    Their wordsPeople find comparing two answers easier than assigning absolute ratings, resulting in greater consistency across annotators.

    ↗Evaluating Long-Context Question & Answer Systemseugeneyan.com 1st of 3 in this piece