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Researcher working on task automation with AI

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Solomon's approach to the USG / Lab Question

Its a question of which frontier

Research Engineering Agents

Terminal agents are the path to scalable applied research engineering.

Know Your Audience

... Know Victory

Our Last Respite

... is pain and suffering

Specification Engineering

... is a bet on better code gen and more complexity

Moving fast

... is sometimes worth it

Maslow's Hierarchy Sings at the Top

... and screams in the middle

The Parable of the Corals

... extends far beyond reefkeeping.

Orion One

... Doesn't Get It

Right Speech

... Right Action

There are Few Hidden, Significant Truths

... but plenty of hidden, important lies

Sharing the SmallBench Agent Suite

... to fuel the next few OOMs in software agent research.

Sharing the Long Range Context Benchmark

... to assess language models' ability to reason about lots of information.

Compound AI Systems

... are here to stay.

The Digital Agent Dataset Hasn't Been Created

... and never will be.

The End of Software

... may be nigh for consumer tech.