Sunday Letters
Sam SchillaceHow to think like a programmer, letters to my younger self, and system thinking
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For the past few years, I’ve been working on AI “harnesses” that help models build software. As written here, and elsewhere, that’s been getting easier and easier. Things that were novel or hard even 9 months ago are routine now, even with...
If it’s easy, it’s not worth much.
I spent some time last week at the University of Michigan, doing my annual teaching. It’s always a good experience, and students often want to hear about what I was thinking when I built Google Docs with my co-founders. There are lots of le...
What used to be hard
I was reflecting recently on a period of time in my life, about 8 years ago, when I was managing a small team of engineers on the Google Maps product. I’d go sit in the office with them, help with technical issues, plan and understand relea...
AI is photography for thinking
Before the advent of photography, there was only one way to make a realistic image: study hard and master some form of media (paint, charcoal etc) and then draw it. Photography meant that suddenly a realistic image was easy to create. A hum...
Do More By Knowing Less
There is a contradiction in working with AI that I want to dig into: we have to learn ways to trust the work without seeing all of it.
On the one hand, as we’ve discussed, your personal attention is now the most valuable, critical resourc...
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