Nathan Lambert

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1,814 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 1 Feb

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI · 1 Feb 2026 podcast

I got cut for no reason by the government or I don't know what's going to happen.

So I think there's a lot of uncertainty and trade-offs that, in my opinion, favor just like...

take the take the well paying job with meaningful impact.

So it's like not also like you're getting paid to sit around at open AI, you're building like the cutting edge of things that are changing millions of people's relationship to tech, but publication wise, they're being more secretive, increasingly so.

I feel like my friends who are professors seem on average happier than my friends who work at a Frontier Lab, to be totally honest.

Because it's just grounding and the Frontier Labs definitely do this 996, which essentially is shorthand for work all the time.

They're just so fulfilled.

But like working with students and having a constant runway of mentorship and like a mission that is very people-oriented, I think in an era when things are moving very fast and are very chaotic, it's very rewarding to people.

I think this leapfrogging nature and having multiple players is actually an underrated driver of language modeling process where competition is so deeply ingrained to people.

And these companies have intentionally created very strong culture.

Anthropic is known to be so culturally deeply committed.

organized i mean like we hear so little from them and everybody's anthropic seems very aligned and it's like being at a culture that is super tight and having this competitive dynamic is like talk about a thing that's going to make you work hard and create things that are better so i think that this but that comes at the cost of human capital which is like

you can only do this for so long and people are definitely burning out.

I think I've, I wrote a post on burnout.

I was like, I've tried in and out of this myself, especially trying to like be a manager full mode training.

It's a crazy job doing this.

The book Apple in China by Patrick McGee, he talked about the, how hard the Apple engineers work to set up the supply chains in China.

And he was like, they had saving marriage programs.

And he told a podcast, he was like, people died from this level of working hard.

So I think that it's just like,

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