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Thinking Machines chief scientist John Schulman on what’s changed in AI since 2015–2017: “Previously the people were a bit weirder.” “Engineering skill matters more now… as opposed to research, taste and the ability to do exploratory research.” “There’s so much low hanging fruit just from scaling the simple ideas and executing on them well.” “People who have more of a software engineering background have more of an advantage now.” @johnschulman2 @thinkymachines @mntruell @cursor_ai
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