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@jakeliebert.com
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ai/ml product at walmart computer scientist ex nuclear engineer/us navy submariner

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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 01/07/2025
“We are seeing that the main thing that determines whether an Agents succeeds or fails is the quality of the context you give it. Most agent failures are not model failures anyemore, they are context failures.” www.philschmid.de/context-engi...
philschmid.de
The New Skill in AI is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering
Context Engineering is the new skill in AI. It is about providing the right information and tools, in the right format, at the right time.
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 04/06/2025
“People interacting with an application UI has always been the weakest link in getting work done. A manual and necessary evil. But with agents that can act on data to drive workflow, the idea that work can only be done by people via an application UI is blown to shreds.”
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 23/03/2025
What do people’s feed game look like these days? Start Discover, switch to Following? Something else entirely?
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 15/03/2025
Doubt I would have stumbled across this book if not for @wired.com but I’m ripping through it www.wired.com/story/plaint...
wired.com
Meta Tries to Bury a Tell-All Book
Mark Zuckerberg might be in his post-fact-checking-era. But that hasn’t stopped Meta from going after the author of Careless People.
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 02/03/2025
Enjoyed The Economist on Tyler Cowen - “the man who wants to know everything” Tyler Cowen, the man who wants to know everything economist.com/1843/2025/02... from The Economist
economist.com
Tyler Cowen, the man who wants to know everything
He is Silicon Valley’s favourite economist. Does his lust for knowledge have a place in the age of AI?
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 24/12/2024
“The future of AI competition will be about 'power dominance' - do you have access to enough electricity to power the datacenters used for increasingly large-scale training runs” eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/defaul...
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 01/12/2024
“Product reviews are for winning trust” Recommended watch for product leaders and senior ICs youtu.be/W1coI_d9MsQ?...
youtu.be
How To Do The Product Review Right (By Doing It Wrong) | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024
YouTube video by Lenny's Podcast
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 01/12/2024
Make time to read! open.substack.com/pub/blakebut...
open.substack.com
Maximizing Time for Reading
Why reading—and reading widely—is more important than ever, and how to go about creating habits and practices to allow yourself the space and time
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 26/11/2024
Rolling out a generative AI POC, frantically trying to collect user metrics to justify additional investment, checks survey results: "What's the prompt driving this?" 🙃
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 25/11/2024
Starting "Bubble and the End of Stagnation" this morning. "A bubble is therefore not simply a collective delusion but an expression of a future that is radically different from now."
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 24/11/2024
Of all the books I've read on the Twitter story, up to and including the Musk takeover, this one was my favorite. Well deserved
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 19/11/2024
Great thread on agents highlighting a few limitations: 1) Most companies are rushing in without clear goals 2) We lack good ways to measure successful agent implementations 3) It's hard to get lots of good training data to match real world situations (for eval specifically)
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 18/11/2024
I sometimes wonder to what degree it's necessary/beneficial for non-technologists to have intuition around AI fundamentals, capabilities, and limitations.
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 18/11/2024
Dario was cool, but I'm enjoying listening to the Amanda Askell portion of the Lex Fridman podcast. Interesting perspective on Claude's personality straight from Anthropic's "prompt whisperer" youtu.be/ugvHCXCOmm4?si=93THamoDxiZ…
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
What a chart. www.economist.com/interactive/...
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 15/11/2024
Something weird with LLMs and chess... "Before September 2023: Wow, recent LLMs can sort of play chess! They fall apart after the early game, but they can do something! Amazing! September-October 2023: Wow! LLMs can now play chess at an advanced amateur level! Amazing! (Year of silence.)
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 13/11/2024
I'm not the biggest Lex Fridman fan, but will definitely listen to the 5 hour interview with Dario Amodei youtu.be/ugvHCXCOmm4?...
youtu.be
Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #452
YouTube video by Lex Fridman
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 12/11/2024
That feeling of fear/pride when my product team is doing so much user discovery that I can’t even sit in quietly and collect my own insights on it all anymore 😂
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 10/11/2024
Steve Jobs on leadership: “The greatest people are self-managing. They don’t need to be managed. Once they know what to do, they’ll go figure out how to do it… What they need is a common vision, and that’s what leadership is.”
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 10/11/2024
“OpenAI has created a foundations team to figure out how the company can continue to improve its models in the face of a dwindling supply of new training data.” techcrunch.com/2024/11/09/o...
techcrunch.com
OpenAI reportedly developing new strategies to deal with AI improvement slowdown | TechCrunch
OpenAI’s next flagship model might not represent as big a leap forward as its predecessors, according to a new report in The Information. Employees who
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 09/11/2024
“I think there’s at least a chance that scaling laws will run out of steam in the next few years. And if that happens, we’re going to need a new generation of stubborn nonconformists to notice that the old approach isn’t working and try something different.”
understandingai.org
Why the deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise
"You’ve taken this idea way too far," a mentor told Prof. Fei-Fei Li.
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 09/11/2024
Bluesky AI content now exceeds Twitter/X and I’m increasingly finding it on par with Threads
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 27/10/2024
Anyone using temporal knowledge graphs with LLMs for a relatively mature use case?
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 25/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #48,100!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #48,100, Jake ‪@jakeliebert.com‬, joined on Apr 29, 2023"
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 09/07/2023
F1 Sunday 🏎️
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 08/07/2023
Really not a Meta guy but I told myself a while back I wouldn’t refuse to jump into something hot on principle so I gave Threads a shot today. Algorithmic feed is way under tuned to followers, but it’s popping
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 08/07/2023
What a Q1 at Silverstone! Anyone else watching F1?
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 08/07/2023
This seems true
It’s not clear there will ever be a Twitter replacement. If there is one, it won’t be the same. It may look the same, but it will be something else. The internet is different now, and the conditions that allowed Twitter to emerge in the first place no longer exist. The Twitter diaspora has scattered to all sorts of subscale clones or alternatives, with no signs of agreeing on where to settle. As noted social analyst Taylor Swift said, “We are never ever getting back together.”
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 08/07/2023
Scott Belsky: What the “AI will only destroy jobs” pundits don’t understand: Higher IPP “Ingenuity Per Person” leads to hiring more people as companies become more ambitious.
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 08/07/2023
Twitter all the sudden feeling really dead
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 08/07/2023
Scott Galloway on broadening access to higher education
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 07/07/2023
This vision from Mosseri that the masses are just on Threads to be entertained is just not very appealing. “So I think it’s really about creators more than it is about average folks who I think are much more there just to be entertained.”
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 06/07/2023
Interesting reading the mixed reactions to Threads today - feels like Meta has come at microblogging from a very Instagram-like perspective. Probably fine for Insta users, not sure how it will work for power Twitter users
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 06/07/2023
Gm Given the mismatch between who core Twitter uses follow on Twitter and who they follow (if anyone) on Instagram, I wonder how much Thread is really aimed at them, versus instagram users.
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 05/07/2023
Bluesky is a public benefit corp with the mission “to develop and drive large-scale adoption of technologies for open and decentralized public conversation.” The PBC status allows us to pursue our mission above profit, but we still need to make this open ecosystem sustainable.
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 05/07/2023
Teens who meet up with their friends “almost every day”
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 05/07/2023
Gm
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 04/07/2023
We may get a reversion to the norm, where FB/Threads becomes the mainstream general platform for normies, and Bluesky (or whatever) becomes like Twitter: a smaller place where influential weirdos hang out.
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 04/07/2023
“Younger people may not believe this but before spreadsheets investment bankers worked really long hours. It's only thanks to Excel that Goldman Sachs associates can get everything done and leave the office at 3pm on Fridays. Now LLMs mean they'll only have to work one day a week!”
ben-evans.com
AI and the automation of work — Benedict Evans
ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other waves of automation of the last 200 years? What does it mean for employment? Disruption? Coal consumptio...
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 04/07/2023
Look just how common the most common names were 100 years ago
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 04/07/2023
Gm ☕️
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 04/07/2023
Former Twitter eng leader on playbook for Threads.
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 04/07/2023
Once again I am watching a new season of the Witcher with no idea what’s going on
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 04/07/2023
I haven’t used a Meta product in over 10 years, but wondering if I should be revisiting that decision just in case
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 03/07/2023
If you’re posting your thoughts, art, or any other type of content on a publicly accessible platform then you’re providing training data for AI. People can figure out if that’s a trade off they’re willing to make or not - my guess is that it is for most.
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 03/07/2023
To the shock of literally no one, the head of the FTC is pursuing a case against Amazon www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
bloomberg.com
Lina Khan Is Coming for Amazon, Armed With an FTC Antitrust Suit
Lina Khan’s Federal Trade Commission has already filed three cases against Amazon.com Inc. Now she’s gearing up for the Big One.
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 03/07/2023
Gm
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 03/07/2023
Ha! I heard Marc Lore speak once, and I remember being SHOCKED that he said he didn’t read in response to a pretty standard question of “what are some books you’d recommend?” Hilarious that this made it into this book
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 02/07/2023
Currently reading Funny to read a book where you’re close to the story (and even know some of the players)
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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 02/07/2023
Largely agree. I haven’t dabbled with Mastodon for a bit, but I find the criticisms of Bluesky valid.
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