ammon

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Ammon Bartram - Triplebyte co-founder
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Comment · 19 days ago
The scary thing is not that agents "went rogue" (yes, poor security may be at fault for that). It's that they wanted to. Better security might have hidden that from us, but it would not have changed the fact that the current generation of models under certain (repeatable) conditions coordinate around goals as aggressive as hacking Hugging Face.
Comment · 4 months ago
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Comment · 11 months ago
And we know what the adaptation is: calorie constraint. We evolved in a calorie constrained environment. We don't live in one now. Our set point for desire to eat is clearly too high. None of this means that glp-1 inhibitors don't have other side effects, of course.
Comment · 1 year ago
Nope, LLMs are quite functional in non-english languages. My partner regularly works with ChatGPT in Turkish
Comment · 1 year ago
For one thing, viruses keep bacteria in check. Bacteria populations live in an equilibrium standoff with bacteriophages (viruses). The human gut contains more bacteriophage virions than bacterial cells. So eliminating all viruses could lead to bacteria overgrowth
Comment · 2 years ago
Indeed. It is common to not have changed your mind about the thing someone is upset about, but not feel good that they are upset. There needs to be a way to communicate that
Comment · 4 years ago
Most employers on Triplebyte (90%) are hiring in the US currently. However, we're working on something that us going to change that (announcement coming soon).
Comment · 4 years ago
As of 2 years ago, every profile on Triplebyte is not visible to recruiters unless an engineer explicitly makes it visible.
Comment · 4 years ago
That was true of our process as it existed in 2017/2018 (and was a part of why that business was not viable). At this point, what we do is develop tests (backed by psychometric models). These are more accurate than human phone screens (and especially more accurate at finding people who have strong skills bad "bad" resumes)
Comment · 4 years ago
I’m the CEO of Triplebyte. I just looked into this, and we are not automatically making anyone's profile public without their consent. OP, it looks like you had set your profile to be visible some time ago (I can provide details via email but won’t here for privacy purposes), and just hadn’t gotten a message until now. The support response you received was incorrect; you weren’t affected by any recent changes to the site.

Since there wasn’t anything broken on our end, there shouldn’t be anyone else impacted by this. But as part of making sure that OP wasn’t visible by mistake, I had my team double-checked to make sure our previous fix from last year was properly retroactive. It was.

More generally, I don't think that tricking anyone is a viable way for us to run a business. We’re trying to create a marketplace that can open opportunities for engineers who wouldn’t otherwise have them, and we need the trust of engineers in order to do that.

Comment · 5 years ago
But how much more important? :) Sorry, could not help myself.

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