Jake Carlson @llm_bender

Red Teamer @ OpenAI | AI Engineer @ UBS | @joinodf fellow linkedin.com/in/jake-c-8191… New York City Joined February 2017

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Jake Carlson @llm_bender

7 hours ago

There's a secret forum for big tech employees. It's a safe haven for people to ask for advice on stuff they can't talk about with friends and family. Should this SWE go to OpenAI or Anthropic?

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>go to college for 4 years to get a cs degree >intern every summer >work in big tech for 2 years after graduating >coding since age 12 Company: how many years of experience do you have (excluding internships)? Me: 2

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Jake Carlson @llm_bender

2 days ago

The problem with Jevons Paradox is that while automation creates more jobs than it destroys, workers have to re-skill to be able to do the new jobs. If AI gets rid of 10k animators and creates 20k data center technician jobs, it’s not like the technician jobs are available to…

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3 months ago

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Jake Carlson @llm_bender

5 days ago

TIL (the hard way) that you can have a negative OpenAI balance. Their billing infrastructure is so slow that you can make a bunch of API calls before they realize you're broke. Makes me wonder if compute will become its own currency, and OAI will start issuing credit cards.

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Jake Carlson @llm_bender

6 days ago

Since this blew up- @robotaxi's cutthroat strategy for market domination: • win on unit economics, at the cost of UX • win on data + distribution • use vision-based sensors (lower maintenance) Almost certainly beats Waymo. Uber v. Lyft shows that ppl prefer affordable rides.

Jake Carlson @llm_bender

2 weeks ago

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Jake Carlson @llm_bender

a week ago

Just spent 10 minutes canceling a toothbrush subscription: >Are you sure? You’ll lose $0.40 credits >10% off? >Ok you got us haha…15%? >At least tell us why?! Is this diabolical or brilliant?

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Jake Carlson @llm_bender

a week ago

Big tech employees have a secret message board. Fully anonymous. You have to show proof of employment to get in. Want to know what FAANG engineers really think about H-1B? Look what they say when no one's watching.

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Jake Carlson @llm_bender

a week ago

Got lunch with @findporpoise, who just raised $500k to recruit an army of photographers for @photosonchain The idea is to grow a catalog of verified (non AI) photos, and license it to AI labs for training, so that LLMs won't generate images of people with 3 hands. Very bullish!

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Jake Carlson @llm_bender

2 weeks ago

Big news for AI researchers/engineers: OpenAI just got rid of the temperature setting in gpt-5. Previously, users could dictate how predictable or creative the model would be by setting temperature between 0-1. 0.7 meant high randomness. 0.0 returned the same result every time.