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Max Woolf (@minimaxir) is formerly a Senior Data Scientist at BuzzFeed in San Francisco. Currently, Max is unemployed and looking for a data science/machine learning/AI position in the San Francisco Bay Area: if interested, please contact him through one of the contact links below!
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OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?

What is “the true cost of a token”?

Writing Rust code that's faster than state-of-the-art libraries by asking agents to make the code faster

c’mon, try doing a breakthrough

LLMs break down in funny ways when told the Jacobian Conjecture counterargument

Cognitohazards can affect machines too.

The image that makes me say "yay" less often than "god damn it".

What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately?

I’m going to be the weirdo who complains about literally getting free stuff.