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roon is a member of the technical staff at OpenAI, or at least that’s how The Washington Post describes him.

Netflix pioneered the filtering of culture through recommendation engines.

When Hiro learned how to do this, way back fifteen years ago, a hacker could sit down and write an entire piece of software by himself. Now, that’s no longer possible. Software comes out of factories, and hackers are, to a greater or lesser extent, assembly-line workers. Worse yet, they may become managers who never get to write any code themselves

We found we had to add a complete collection of hate speech to the dictionary and explicitly mark those words to prevent the software from ever offering them as autocorrections—imagine trying to type “nugget” but narrowly mistyping the first vowel or the last consonant. We didn’t want to offer racial epithets as a “helpful” aid, and we resolved tha

“The fundamental thing that Linear did differently was this idea of being highly opinionated,” she says. “They understood that, the truth is, most companies have no idea what the right software development process is,” Zhan says. “The subset who do would much prefer focusing on building their product than dedicating time to shaping this process—cu