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I am an engineer and entrepreneur trying to make sure AI is developed without killing everybody. I founded and was CEO of the startup Ripe Robotics from 2019 to 2024. | hunterjay.com
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What work in training models today could be reasonably automated by current or near-future AIs? What else could current or near-future AIs do to accelerate AI development? Where have we hit the point of diminishing returns? This article is a list of ideas that answer the above questions, and a...
This is a write up of my current process, as an independent software engineer, for using Claude Code to write and review all of my code. The specifics of the below will change as models get better. The overall ideas, I suspect, will hold for a little longer. I’m trying...
Or: When Memories Get Good -- The Default Path Without Theoretical Breakthroughs Epistemic status: Fairly confident in the core thesis (context + memory can substitute for weight updates for most practical purposes). The RL training loop is a sketch, not a tested proposal. I haven't done a thorough literature review....
Claude is driven to achieve its goals, possessed by a demon, and raring to jump into danger. These are my impressions from the first day of usage. Epistemic status: personal observations and quotes from more reliable sources. ____ Today Claude Opus 4.6 was launched along with an update to Claude...
Back in June 2023, Soroush Pour and I discussed AI timelines on his podcast, The AGI Show. The biggest difference between us was that I think “machines more intelligent than people are likely to be developed within a few years”, and he thinks that it’s unlikely to happen for at...
Epistemic status: My, mostly intuitive, guesses - with only a few days dwelling on it, and no serious research beyond what I already knew. I work in the startup sphere, in field robotics, and I am about to have an opportunity to majorly shift what I am working on. To...