Misha Laskin
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Mar 7, 2025 neutral
The Fundamental Language of AI Will Likely Remain Python
“The things that language models understand best tend to be the kind of piece of code that are represented on the internet. You know, maybe I don't think a lot of people would be happy with this, that maybe the kind of fundamental language of AI becomes Python …”
Mar 7, 2025 bullish
Mar 7, 2025 positive
DeepSeek Revealed Attention Kernel Optimizations Kept Secret by Big Labs
“Deep seeks recent open sourcing of their various code components that they use to train that model, which I think outside of the big labs was not really well known to, right, it was not really well known how to write kind of a kernel that's optimized for this …”
Mar 7, 2025 positive
Gemini 1 Proved GPT-4-Level Models Can Bootstrap Reinforcement Learning
“Giannis and I led a lot of the work for post-training and kind of RL check for Gemini, and Giannis being my co-founder, and when we shipped Gemini One, we just realized that the models, like, models that were basically at GPT-IV level or above, were capable en…”
Mar 7, 2025 bullish
Mar 7, 2025 negative
Frontier Labs May Hoard Superintelligent Models and Release Nerfed Versions
“You can imagine you know, the world converging on a few companies have really powerful coding models. They basically release a nerfed version of that to the public at large, and basically have a competitive advantage by having, you know, a super intelligent co…”
Mar 7, 2025 bullish
Future UIs Will Be Built as Programmatic Interfaces for AI Models
“Over the coming years, there'll be more kind of AI friendly or language model friendly UIs. And what's friendly to a language model is, is code. So the way a model will be doing work, not just for coding and software engineering, Is by basically making functio…”
Mar 7, 2025 negative
Needle-in-a-Haystack Tests Are Crude for Evaluating True Context Understanding
“So it's not just having long context, it's whether your model truly understands what's inside the context, and needle in the haystack tests are pretty crude and not very effective way of testing this kind of capability.”
Mar 7, 2025 neutral
A 90% SWE-Bench Score Can Still Fall Flat in Customer Environments
“Autonomous coding benchmarks, let's say, like Sweetbench, are useful. I'm not going to discount them. They are useful. But let's say, you know, 90% on Sweetbench could still mean something that just falls over flat within a customer setting.”