David Hershey

Everything David Hershey said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

LATENT SPACE Assertion Supported

Anthropic's Pokémon research graph reflects a single run passing Lt. Surge

“The run that you saw that's, like, on the graph we put out alongside, like, in our research blog is, like, a single run that I have watched, like, get through At least surges Jim. And then it got a little past that. And the reason that that's where we stopped …”

David Hershey Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 33:55 How Claude Plays Pokémon was made

LATENT SPACE Insight

Measuring AI game progress is an integration test, not a unit test

“And so I think like how quickly it's able to make progress is actually a pretty reason or a reasonable like eval if a slightly expensive one to calculate. It's an integration test, not a unit test.”

David Hershey Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 37:04 How Claude Plays Pokémon was made

LATENT SPACE Disclosure

Hershey Restricts Multi-Button Inputs After Claude Overwrote Ivysaur's Attack

“People who have watched the stream often complain about the fact that I don't let Claude press multiple buttons when there's dialogue on the screen anymore. That's because I watched a run, or a run, where it had an Ivysaur in Mt. Moon, and it had Tackle as its…”

David Hershey Apr 5, 2025 ▶ 7:58 Claude Plays Pokémon Hackathon: Escape from Mt. Moon!

The other half of the tape: David Hershey's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 4 times in 2 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →

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Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens David's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
LATENT SPACELEDGER	Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic	2	27	100% 2/2	full record on Latent Space →