Why AI labs offer so many different models

When I write about doing politically valuable work in big tech companies, I often get comments accusing me of trying to get ahead at the…

The Chinese AI lab DeepSeek recently released their new reasoning model R1, which is supposedly (a) better than the current best reasoning…

Some engineers work very consistently, putting in the same hours every day and getting out the same amount of work. I don’t. Some days I…

Big tech companies spend a lot of time and money building things that a single, motivated engineer could build in a weekend. This fact…

If you’re a competent software engineer at a large tech company, your time is in very high demand. Lots of people will want you to do things…