jamesbrady

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What distinguishes great engineers when AI writes the code?(elicit.com)
2 points by jamesbrady 6mo ago|0 comments
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by jamesbrady 11mo ago
Elicit | San Francisco + remote (US timezones) | https://elicit.com/careers Elicit is building AI for science. We scaled to >$7MM annual revenue and 450k MAU fast. We're hiring for multiple roles and are primarily i
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by jamesbrady 1y ago
Elicit | San Francisco + remote (US timezones) | https://elicit.com/careers Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers figure out what’s true and make better decisions. We scaled to &gt
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by jamesbrady 1y ago
Elicit | San Francisco + remote (US timezones) | https://elicit.com/careers Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers figure out what’s true and make better decisions. We scaled to &gt
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by jamesbrady 1y ago
Elicit | San Francisco + remote (US timezones) | https://elicit.com/careers Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers figure out what’s true and make better decisions. We scaled to &gt
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by jamesbrady 2y ago
Elicit | San Francisco + remote (US timezones) | https://elicit.com/careers Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers figure out what’s true and make better decisions. We've scale
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by jamesbrady 2y ago
Elicit | San Francisco + remote (US timezones) | https://elicit.com/careers Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers figure out what’s true and make better decisions. We've scale
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by jamesbrady 2y ago
Elicit | San Francisco + remote (US timezones) | https://elicit.com/careers Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers figure out what’s true and make better decisions. We've scale
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by jamesbrady 2y ago
Elicit | San Francisco + remote (US timezones) | https://elicit.com/careers Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers figure out what’s true and make better decisions. We've scale
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by jamesbrady 2y ago
Elicit ( https://elicit.com/careers ) | Oakland, CA and Hybrid | Frontend, AI, and Full-stack software engineering roles. Elicit is automating high-quality reasoning so that we can help the world make more breakthroughs in ev
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by jamesbrady 2y ago
Elician here! Our main focus is a little different to SciSummary actually. We're focussed on understanding researchers broader workflows, and providing a research assistant (i.e. rather than a particular narrow tool for summarisation o
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by jamesbrady 2y ago
Actually, it's not an LLM! We do use LLMs, but the secret sauce is an approach we call Factored Cognition which we wrote about here: https://ought.org/research/factored-cognition (Elicit the company and app was sp
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by jamesbrady 2y ago
Oh, my bad—I misunderstood, thanks for the clarification
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by jamesbrady 2y ago
Elician here: thank you for sharing our tool and for this praise! We're glad you're enjoying it.
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by jamesbrady 2y ago
Elician here. This is a good point! (Hopefully) obviously, if we knew a particular claim was fishy, we wouldn't make it in the app in the first place. However, we do do a couple of things which go towards addressing your concern: 1. We
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by jamesbrady 2y ago
Elician here! Thanks for your comment. I'm not sure I agree that those rule-of-thumb statistics are "arbitrary" or "fictional"… I guess it depends on what you mean by that. I can say that on our part they're a
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by jamesbrady 2y ago
Elician here! Accuracy and supportedness of the claims made in Elicit are two of the most central things we focus on—it's a shame it didn't work as well as we'd like in this case. I'd appreciate knowing more about the sp
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by jamesbrady 3y ago
Elician here. The two main problems we're addressing now are: 1. Finding papers / claims / data across an academic literature which is ballooning in size. 2. Using these raw materials to to answer questions in a reliable mann
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by jamesbrady 4y ago
This is not true.
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by jamesbrady 5y ago
Agree, way too long! I gave that much of a heads-up of my leaving (not a formal resignation, as it happens) for a few reasons including: 1. It's a C-level replacement, which takes _months_ 2. I cared deeply (and still do) about my team
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by jamesbrady 5y ago
Thankfully, it wasn't a train wreck! But yes, there were certainly some things I would have done differently. For me, I tend to learn more from my or someone else's mistakes than from when something went swimmingly – the post is a
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by jamesbrady 5y ago
To be honest I think we agree about more than you make it seem! What you did at your last job sounds exactly right to me – you were giving good feedback about what you needed, and when it wasn't heeded you left. Your manager didn'
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by jamesbrady 5y ago
I think we might have crossed wires here… The section you're referring to is titled "Avoid giving too much notice " and basically gives five reasons for why 10 months was a harmfully-long notice period. The advice is to give
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by jamesbrady 5y ago
> I guess the source of the confusion is that you didn't specify what the sabotage actually is Ah ha, I see – yes I had in mind actively doing stuff to undermine the team after the person has left (on the benign end, deliberately do
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by jamesbrady 5y ago
> It should read: "How Your Boss Would Like You to Quit" Touché, yes there's some truth to this. Many of the points in the post were reflections on people leaving my team as I have an order of magnitude more examples of th
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by jamesbrady 5y ago
> But if you know that the current company cannot pay like the other company you are interviewing for, or that in this new company the future salary outlook is much better, why bother asking if they can pay you more? That's situatio
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by jamesbrady 5y ago
Was this a tech company? I just tightened up the intro explaining whom this post is meant for, and assumed that high-demand industries would be pretty immune to this kind of insanity
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by jamesbrady 5y ago
I like this phrasing and will steal it henceforth.
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by jamesbrady 5y ago
OP here, yeah I mention the 10 months thing as an example of what not to do – the actual handover of tasks I did in maybe 1–2 months, and that was at a leisurely pace TBH. The first ~9 months we were in a slightly weird limbo unfortunatel
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by jamesbrady 5y ago
> the assumption is getting fired instantly from a toxic organization is probably a good thing That's correct – although I definitely take on board some of the other commenters' feedback about things like visas tied to roles. I

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