John Schulman
AI researcher and creator of PPO and General Advantage Estimation (GAE), foundational RL algorithms.
“There's been a classic thing, almost like Marvec's Paradox, where we think of the AI, if it can do this, it's going to be amazing... And then it solves these things, and then it's not that impactful.”
Source→“John's thing was like, oh yeah, I tried Cursor, but like our codebase, I think he was at Anthropic at the time, like our mono repo just like immediately killed it... and I think like the next day Amon came back and was like, oh, we made some changes like here you can look.”
Source→“I highly recommend John Schulman's general advantage estimation paper as like a good treatment on how to think about various ways to compute it.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.