We're looking for NYC-based design engineers to join our small, talent-dense team. This is an opportunity to define the frontier of HCI. We're building the platform for self-assembling, self-optimizing software already in production with consequential enterprises. Our eng team is made up of folks who have built and maintained large open-source projects like Neovim and Analytics.js and scaled massive data systems at companies like Google, Stripe, Wix, and Segment. DM if you are interested or know someone who might be!

Some big personal news: I'm moving to join Works in Progress as executive editor, starting next month. I have been hoping for an opportunity to work with @bswud and @s8mb for more than a decade, and I'm incredibly excited to finally have one. WIP is expanding on every front right now. We'll soon begin coverage of business and finance, as well as putting out more reported features. To that end, we'll be hiring more writers and reporters in the year to come. I'm planning to remain based in the US to help build out our presence here. The print edition of WIP has existed for less than 12 months, but sometime in the next week or so we will reach our 10,000th paying print subscriber. It's a group that now includes people who've been at the highest echelons of government and who run the world's biggest public companies. We’re already on track to 3x that number next year. We'll be in store at Barnes & Noble, Hudson News and independent newsagents next week too. I think WIP is providing something that people are craving from physical media right now: fewer, extremely well-crafted pieces in a beautifully designed form. Issues now feature an amazing group of columnists, including Tyler Cowen, Dan Wang and Stephen Kotkin. Each edition is better than the last. You'll see us in more and more places next year too. In January, our new weekly documentary films will launch on YouTube. We're expanding into the events space, with a new series in North America. The sky is the limit from here on out.

My first project as a new grad at @stripe was a service to turn chargeback evidence submitted through our API into PDFs and fax them to our banking partners. I'd never seen a fax in my life. It was nobody's dream project, and I was sure I'd get fired, so I went deep. I learned how much complexity we could hide behind a simple API, even when our banking partners still relied on paper faxes. Two years later, I got to build the first version of Stripe Radar to stop fraudulent chargebacks in the first place. You often don't get to choose where you start, but going deep, becoming the expert, and earning the trust to take bigger swings is still a great way to build a career. AI has changed how we work, but I don't think it's changed that playbook. @vikrams039 wrote the guide I wish I'd had as a new grad: vikramsingh.me/increase-your…

I think most people multi-tasking with agents could benefit from slowing down most of the stuff you're doing wont really matter- what's your P0? what would it look like if you gave it your full attention?

one day you wrote console.log("here") for the last time and didn't even know it

Claim: we've solved the AI slop problem (!) 💩🧹✨ Blog post: facebookresearch.github.io/R… 🧵1/5 Key idea: take *expert* human writing and learn rubrics that find the gap between experts and models. Train with those rubrics. We train with RL-XAR (RL with eXpert Aligned Rubrics) & see large performance gains on writing scientific paper sections, Pulitzer prize novel continuations and high quality Wikipedia pages.

"Sorry for the delayed response! Middling generative AI has fundamentally altered the strategic balance between offense & defense in the war for our attention, so I have chosen to ignore this messaging channel. Out beyond kino & slop, there is a field. I'll meet you there."