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Thoughts — Jason Wei

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Levels and expectations Bet on AI research experiments History of Flan-2 When I don’t sleep enough Thinking about history makes me appreciate AI Advice from Bryan Johnson Sora is like GPT-2 for video generation A typical day at OpenAI Yolo runs Uniform information density for CoT Inertia bias in AI research Compute-bound, not headcount-bound Magic of language models Why you should write tests Co-founders who still write code 2023 Hyung Won Read informal write-ups Relationship board of directors Reinventing myself Good prompting techniques 10k citations Manually inspect data Language model evals Amusing nuggets from being an AI resident When to use task-specific models Benefits of pair programming Many great managers do IC work Why I’m 100% transparent with my manager My girlfriend is a reward model Better citation metrics than h-index My strengths are communication and prioritization Emergence (dunk on Yann LeCun) UX for researchers My refusal The evolution of prompt engineering Prompt

2026 A cognitive core is not enough 2025 AI will not takeoff fast Work in the office AI should create unicorns The asymmetry of AI research Fact-checking good AI researchers The description-execution gap RL environment specs The inverse 80-20 rule Method-driven vs problem-driven research AI research is a max-performance domain ATLA is the ultimate benchmark Measurement is all you need AlphaEvolve is thought-provoking Binary-choice questions for AI research taste The craziest chain-of-thought The best hard-to-solve easy-to-verify benchmark Flavors of AI for scientific…

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