jackson romero

mts @quadrillionlabs | nyc

[jackson romero @jacksontromero]

anyone who watched the Dwarkesh interview better be buying, they know the replacement can't be worse

[jackson romero @jacksontromero]

@kevinren09 @Weirui_Ye Seems like there has been an increasing concentration across conferences in the past few years!

https://t.co/0e4fIsgy6M

[jackson romero @jacksontromero]

@kevinren09 @quadrillionlabs i wouldn't go as far as 'unnecessary', but moreso that there's still a ton of unrealized value in expanding in-distribution to ~everything current

[jackson romero @jacksontromero]

@kevinren09 @Weirui_Ye Seems like there has been an increasing concentration across conferences in the past few years!

https://t.co/0e4fIsgy6M

[Quadrillion @quadrillionlabs]

https://t.co/q4DFv1YOIG

[jackson romero @jacksontromero]

this fanfic thing be easy

[jackson romero @jacksontromero]

No desire to entire The Discourse™️, just think it's an interesting chart

[jackson romero @jacksontromero]

Harvard stipend has outpaced Boston CPI and even Boston housing CPI, mainly due to previous union activism!

Clearly the union was good for grad workers, but it seems understandable that some are hesitant about another strike now

[Ali Alkhatib @_alialkhatib]

harvard strike doesn't seem complicated

1. i think it's widely known and mundane to observe that across the country (and maybe internationally), phd stipends have not tracked w/inflation. cost of living has climbed, but stipends haven't moved commensurately even just tracking 5y

[jackson romero @jacksontromero]

@TheStalwart I thought surely this was Chinese Joe Weisenthal instead!

[jackson romero @jacksontromero]

@echinaceous what in the claude is this

I'm telling HR

[jackson romero @jacksontromero]

is claudeish taken from marketing copy or is all marketing just Claude now? i.e. did "our take on dinnerware - each piece, refined" come first??

genuinely asking, I can't tell if my brain is just cooked

[jackson romero @jacksontromero]

I was as skeptical of this as everyone rightly should be, and am honestly not a fan of becoming a "feel the AGI" person, but the results are impossible to argue with

for the right group of insanely talented, well-reasoned, cross-functional people, you can accomplish so much by trusting they're smart enough to not ship one-shot PRs

[e chi @echinaceous]

at Quadrillion we moved away from human code review some time ago (as many have done). agents write code correctly enough that correctness issues are ~ human error rates of *merged* PRs in the past. the main reason for PRs sitting in code review hell ended up being people disagreeing on what to build rather than how to build it - and we decided to solve that by vigorously arguing in person rather than in the 24h loop times of PR notifications

[jackson romero @jacksontromero]

@lxe the whole team at @quadrillionlabs - autoresearch in a box

[Kaggle @kaggle]

Bench Summit 2026 🎬

On October 28, Kaggle, @GoogleDeepMind, and @zapier brought together benchmark publishers, data labs, research organizations, enterprise users, and frontier labs for an inaugural summit.

The core takeaway: Bringing diverse stakeholders together in the same room is the only way we fix broken benchmarks and define the future of AI evaluation.

• 264 attendees
• 43 speakers
• 35+ benchmarks

Keep an eye on our YouTube channel for the full digital track soon! And, join us for the next Bench Summit so we can build the future of AI evaluation together.

[Giles Goat-Girl @nadienadianadie]

I am hearing that on this election night’s eve Matt Yglesias received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

[jackson romero @jacksontromero]

so excited to witness the great tweet recycling machine tn

[Alex @neprodian]

autoresearch is crazy because you can just train your own version of cursor tab now

[jackson romero @jacksontromero]

I have again ended up in the wretched hive of scum and villainy I once swore to avoid

(waymo just missed 3 turns too so now my previously favorite thing is dead to me)

[Ben Yelin @byelin]

Listened to Nate Silver on Ezra this morning. One of the least popular things I could do on this website is defend Nate Silver, so challenge accepted.

His "vibes" have been directionally correct in every Election. In 2012, he fought against the polling unskewers making claims that Romney would win based on undersampling of Republicans.

In 2016, his model was famously FAR more bullish on Trump than any others. He was the only modeler who understood the possibility of correlated polling error.

In 2020, he repeatedly emphasized the higher than usual uncertainty due to the pandemic.

In 2022, he fought back against pollsters (NY Times!) basically ignoring their own data to buy into the Red Wave.

In 2024, he said that even though his model was 50/50, his gut said Trump would win.

All in all, a better record than anyone else on Election Twitter.

[jackson romero @jacksontromero]

Really excited that we're starting to share our vision for the future of autoresearch!

The future should be bright and big and bold! And we think empowering researchers across all domains will help do so

[Quadrillion @quadrillionlabs]

https://t.co/VcxqXSyCiQ