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Burning out - by Nathan Lambert - Interconnects

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One of the obvious topics of the Valley today is how hard everyone works. We’re inundated with comments on “The Great Lock In”, 996, 997, and now even a snarky 002 (midnight to midnight with a 2 hour break). Plenty of this is performative flexing on social media, but enough of it is real and reflecting how trends are unfolding in the LLM space. I’m affected. My friends are affected. All of this hard work is downstream of ever increasing pressure to be relevant in the most exciting technology of our generation. This is all reflective of the LLM game changing. The time window to be a player at the most cutting edge is actually a closing window, not just what feels like one. There are many different sizes and types of models that matter, but as the market is now more fleshed out with resources, all of them are facing a constantly rising bar in quality of technical output. People are racing to stay above the rising tide — often damning any hope of life balance. Interconnects is a reader-su

Burning out An essay on overworking in AI. Nathan Lambert Oct 25, 2025 195 22 16 Share Article voiceover 0:00 -10:09 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. One of the obvious topics of the Valley today is how hard everyone works . We’re inundated with comments on “The Great Lock In”, 996 , 997, and now even a snarky 002 (midnight to midnight with a 2 hour break). Plenty of this is performative flexing on social media, but enough of it is real and reflecting how trends are unfolding in the LLM space. I’m affected. My friends are affected. All of this hard work is downs

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