Trenton Bricken

And that led to more conversations.

And I think I probably would have applied to Anthropic at some point anyways, but I would have waited at least another year.

It's still crazy to me that I can actually contribute to interpretability in a meaningful way.

Yeah, the only thing I can add here is, I mean, I still had to go through the whole hiring process and all the standard interviews and this sort of thing.

Yeah, everyone does.

Yeah, I think there are cases where someone seems really great and then it's like, oh, they actually just can't code.

This sort of thing, right?

How much you weight these things definitely matters, though.

And I think we take references really seriously.

The interviews you can only get so much signal from.

And so it's all these other things that can come into play for whether or not a hire makes sense.

But you should design your interviews such that they test the right things.

I guess the only thing I would add to this or maybe to the headstrong context is there's this line, the system is not your friend.

And it's not necessarily to say it's actively against you or it's your sworn enemy.

It's just not looking out for you.

And so I think that's where a lot of the proactiveness comes in.

There are no adults in the room.

And you have to...

come to some decision for what you want your life to look like and execute on it.

And yeah, hopefully you can then update later if you're too headstrong in the wrong way.