Jeff Dean
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first heard Aug 2026
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having incredibly good taste in what you ask your agents to work on, right?
That is the crux of, from my background, a research problem.
A researcher can have all the tools and all the techniques, but often most of the battle is what problem are you gonna spend your time on?
And if you pick the problem well and you succeed in solving it, that's way better than if you, you know, delightfully execute a research investigation into a rather boring problem.
And so that high level wisdom of what to work on, I think is incredibly important.
I think models are not necessarily going to be that good at it.
So you're going to have people steering
a lot of AI assisted computation in order to accomplish great things and more quickly.
But that essence of what it is you want your models to do is the key thing you should focus on.
Yeah, I mean, it is a difficult thing.
It's not like there's a measurable objective of taste in a lot of cases.
I think some of it is from experience.
you know, working on a lot of different problems in the past kind of teaches you about what kinds of problems might be interesting in the future or what kinds of things might be just barely possible by cobbling together these previous approaches and then some open problems you might have to work on in order to get to something kind of magical or, or, you know, highly useful.
Um,
Another way you can get more experience for yourself is to just write down a bunch of things you think might be important in the next 12 months.
and maybe you pick one of them to work on, but go back and evaluate in 12 months of these other things, which ones actually seemed important or which ones did other people in the world go out and create and which ones did not seem to do yet.
That can give you a lot more samples for your own sort of taste creation capability.
And that's an important skill to have.
Oh yeah, that's another good way.
I mean, I think sometimes it's good to not take as a given things that most people seem to take as a given.
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