What Nathan Lambert thinks about AI agents

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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

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1. 12 Aug 2026

   Our readingUsing AI agents to do a task does not by itself increase a person's own pace of understanding, intuition, or taste for that work.

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   Their wordsSomething intertwined with this story, which I stumbled upon when thinking about agents, is how your pace of understanding won't increase by using agents.

   ↗I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?interconnects.ai 2nd of 3 in this piece