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Two years ago, I joined Elicit as their first and only designer. Or rather, I joined Ought – a small AI research lab which evolved into Elicit. Two years ago, I joined Elicit as their first and only designer. Or rather, I joined Ought – a small AI research lab which evolved into Elicit. Just over a month ago I handed in my notice and worked my last day. I have plenty of reasons to leave, which I'll get into below, but none of them are that I don't believe in Elicit as a product or the team behind it. Quite the opposite. I think Elicit is one of a handful of companies doing interesting and impressive work applying language models to real-world problems. If you're looking for high-impact work with lovely people they're hiring for both design and engineering. I joined Elicit in mid-2022, pre-ChatGPT-hype-wave, back when it was mostly a promising prototype: a free tool that used language models to help scientists, academics, and researchers find and analyse papers as part of the scientific

Table of Contents Table of Contents Two years ago, I joined Elicit Joining Ought A new role at an AI research lab working on tools for open-ended reasoning as their first and only designer. Or rather, I joined Ought – a small AI research lab which evolved into Elicit https://blog.elicit.com/elicit-raises-9-million-and-becomes-a-public-benefit-corporation/ . Just over a month ago I handed in my notice and worked my last day. I have plenty of reasons to leave, which I’ll get into below, but none of them are that I don’t believe in Elicit https://elicit.com/ as a product or the team behind it. Qu

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