Thoughts on building great products, engineering culture, and the future of remote teams.
Anthropic just shipped something that sounds boring but isn't. They added a dial to Claude. You can now tell it how hard to think. Turn it down: fast, cheap, simple answers. Turn it up: slow, expensive, deep thinking. You pick. Every time.
Yann LeCun — Turing Award winner, ex-head of Meta AI, one of deep learning's original architects — walked away from Meta and raised $1.03 billion for a new company called AMI Labs. It's Europe's largest seed round ever. His bet: the entire LLM paradigm is wrong, and real machine intelligence needs a completely different foundation.
What building the future told us in the first day?
