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The gulf between LLM performance on verifiable tasks vs. unverifiable tasks that require judgement is larger than most people realize.
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I think most people still underestimate the data center build-outs that will be required to meet demand.
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Anthropic recently released an encouraging analysis of the cyber capabilities of open weight model GLM-5.3.
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The Batch News & Insights: Anthropic recently released an encouraging analysis of the cyber capabilities of open weight model GLM-5.3.
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Moving forward on early stage, 0-to-1 projects and mature projects requires very different tactics.
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The loudest voices stoking fears about AI dangers have made tremendous headway in the past two weeks.
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When you’re skilled at AI Engineering, your best work won’t be merely implementing a product that someone else spec’ed out. Instead, you will actively shape the build.
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A key AI engineering skill is using coding agents. Your skill at steering them both to write code and to carry out non-code tasks, such as analyzing data or managing system operations, allows you to get a lot more done.
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How have software engineering fundamentals changed with agentic coding?
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I previously wrote about our AI Engineering Skills Map, with the highest level skills being (i) Building and deploying AI applications, (ii) Software engineering fundamentals, (iii) Using coding agents, and (iv) Shaping the build. In this letter, I will flesh out the first of them.
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I am delighted to present The AI Engineering Skills Map. AI allows us to build software very differently today than in 2022, and everyone with the skills to take advantage of this shift has numerous exciting project and job opportunities.
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My team recently had our own version of Hugging Face’s experience when closed models failed to defend the company following an accidental cyberattack from OpenAI, leading Hugging Face to use the open weight GLM 5.2 instead.