Named calls from people worth listening to — who said what, on what basis, and whether we agree.
11 pieces
swyx, the AI-engineering commentator and co-host of the Latent Space podcast, put it flatl…
Sholto Douglas, a reinforcement-learning researcher at Anthropic, predicted in a post: "So…
Dwarkesh Patel is an independent tech interviewer and writer whose deep AI-industry essays…
Thompson writes Stratechery and is among the most-cited analysts on industry strategy. In …
Mollick, a professor at Penn's Wharton School and the most widely read AI pragmatist among…
In his year-end interview (we only obtained the transcript last night), Google DeepMind CE…
In the same interview he decomposed the AI bubble by layer: "seed rounds for startups that…
NYU professor emeritus and prominent AI skeptic Gary Marcus argues that Chinese model capa…
He went through six open-weight models' technical reports side by side and found that the …
He offered a two-layer observation (original post). Layer one: scheduling a coding agent t…
He restated a judgment: frontier open models, in his framing, are accelerationist for AI d…
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