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To be clear: 1. No it can't. I've used Fable while it was available, it was a good model but still less than 1% of the way there. 2. If it could, that fact would generally benefit SaaS companies, not

Francois Chollet likely discusses why books are exceptionally valuable or 'overpowered' as learning and knowledge resources, possibly contrasting their effectiveness against other media or modern alte

MaineCoon is the first video model that focuses on social interactions: facial expressions, emotions, fluid conversation, audio-lip sync, etc. Really impressive inference specs: 22B params, 47.5 FPS o

This post from AI researcher François Chollet discusses the psychological principle that initiating a task requires the most effort (activation energy), while momentum carries you through the remainde

The more you embrace AI, the more you need SaaS. This is not obvious to armchair market analysts who love disruption narratives, but it is obvious to people actually running companies. Levie now uses

This post by François Chollet, creator of Keras and AI researcher at Google, likely discusses the iterative learning principle of 'pray, read, re-read' (Ora, lege, relege), possibly applying it as a m

Some considerations that many folks seem not to get: 1. It can be a bubble even if the tech works. (For instance, if the tech doesn't have a high-demand use case.) 2. It can be a bubble even if the te

A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name. He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, ever

I wrote my first neural networks in pure C, then in Matlab, then in NumPy, before eventually upgrading to Theano. Since then I have seen and tried pretty much every NN framework ever developed. Some a

Code volume is not a reliable metric for measuring developer productivity, as writing more lines of code does not necessarily correlate with delivering more value or solving problems more effectively.

Knowledge scaling—increasing the volume of learned information—provides reliable performance on familiar tasks but limited flexibility when facing novel problems. Intelligence, by contrast, enables ad

Anthropic Opus 4.8 is new SOTA on ARC-AGI-3 Score: 1.5%, ~$10K ARC-AGI-3 analysis notes: * Opus 4.8 read the environment an abstraction *above* Opus 4.7, as objects & systems, not pictures * Opus 4.8

Francois Chollet's post likely expresses a philosophical perspective on existential risk or civilizational decline, suggesting that humanity's downfall would be precipitated by a loss of human values,

This post likely references the popular internet trend where people ask others if they've thought about the Roman Empire today, which became a viral meme highlighting how frequently some people contem

Einstein reflects on his creative process, asserting that language plays no significant role in his mechanical thinking and invention, suggesting that his intellectual work occurs through non-linguist

Creativity often thrives within limitations rather than unlimited freedom, as constraints force innovative problem-solving and focused thinking. This insight from AI researcher François Chollet sugges

Developer productivity is hard to manage. Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in

Thinking of AI as a productivity booster for prior workflows is the wrong framing. Like all of the previous waves of computerization/softwarization, AI is a tool that lets you do new things in new way

This statement from AI researcher François Chollet suggests that the ability to learn something genuinely novel demonstrates a fundamental learning capacity that generalizes across all domains. The cl

We saw our first meaningful jump in the ARC-AGI-3 competition today @tufalabs went from 0.68% > 1.17% My notes: - .68% is the score of the best template (which is why so many people have this score) -

Francois Chollet reflects on the frequency of his mistakes and incorrect predictions, likely discussing humility in scientific work and the importance of intellectual openness in AI research and devel

Francois Chollet observes that AI systems which always affirm user correctness without nuance or disagreement reduce his confidence in their reliability. This reflects a concern that uncritical agreem

The Codex 'goal' feature will take any silly shortcut possible in order to avoid doing the work (including rewriting your external checks), but if you manage to sufficiently constrain it so that it ha

When an agent is allowed to decompose a goal into smaller sub-tasks, it frequently suffers from goal drift. Left unchecked, it will redefine the optimization metric to favor a simpler, useless sub-tas

Gemini Gemini 3.5 Flash ARC-AGI (Verified) ARC-AGI-2: - High: 72.1%, 0.85 - Minimal: 8.9%, 0.11 ARC-AGI-1: - High: 92.5%, 0.42 - Minimal: 48.8%, 0.06 Gemini 3.5 Flash is on par with GPT-5.5 (Medium) o

Most human tasks are not Markovian, the optimal next action cannot be determined solely by looking at the current state. It depends heavily on the past trajectory, the original intent, and context con

This is true of all agents, not just coding agents. Probably the biggest challenge that most companies run into in their agent strategy is getting agents the right constrained context to work with for

A mental model for working with coding agents is that they're blind squirrels running into a maze and bumping into walls. You must place the walls (verifiable constraints) strategically so that they e

Francois Chollet argues that decision-making, rather than execution, is the true limiting factor in productivity. He defines productivity as the rate at which one makes open-ended decisions and reduce

If you're a R user: the R edition of the book is out now! AI hype can be pretty easy to find. But clear explanations are definitely harder. Deep Learning with R, Third Edition by @fchollet and Tomasz

This post reflects on how Pixar films resonate differently with adults, particularly uncles, compared to children, suggesting that mature viewers gain deeper emotional appreciation for themes of respo

If you're not obsessed with the research problem you're working on, for its own sake, you're unlikely to succeed. Intrinsic motivation is far more powerful than external rewards. An Econ PhD student a

Most documented psychological biases are not irrational, they are highly optimized, energy-efficient shortcuts meant for a biological substrate operating under strict real-time physical constraints an

The JAX package is now around the same level, 20M monthly downloads. Which is incredibly fast growth, because 5 years ago I recall it being below 2M or so. It went from niche to mainstream in the past

The Keras package recently crossed 21M monthly downloads on PyPI, an all-time high (the daily ATH is around 900k). I still remember when it first crossed 10M monthly downloads about 5 years ago and I

The quantity of code that devs ship has roughly 10xed. But net developer productivity (value created by unit of time) is only up by a bit, if at all. Part of it is that the additional code is solving

This reminds me of computerization. The amount of 'work' people could execute on computers increased by a huge factor, but their productivity did not. The amount of work 'needed' to arrive at the same

Francois Chollet argues that symbolic learning represents a fundamental alternative to gradient descent and neural networks rather than a replacement for coding agents, offering a low-level, general-p

A lot of people are being deliberately obtuse about this tweet. Would it help if I said 'theory' instead of 'idea'? Because it would still mean the exact same. FYI reading comprehension is about inter

To be clear, I meant 'idea' in the context of science and engineering, in particular AI, as in 'theory' or 'invention', like a new theory of cognition or an idea for a new ML approach. I thought that

This statement by François Chollet argues that true understanding of an idea requires the ability to formalize it mathematically or through code, rather than merely having intuitive grasp. The premise

François Chollet argues that intuition serves as the foundational precursor to the development of significant ideas and innovations. This perspective suggests that before formal analysis, rigorous met

Agentic coding is a form of machine learning. Generated code is best treated as a blackbox artifact whose behavior and generalization should be managed via empirical evaluation, like with any ML model

Francois Chollet argues that AI amplifies existing disparities in user agency, where individuals with high agency gain further capabilities while those with low agency become increasingly dependent, c

This means that agentic coding isn't exactly a replacement for software engineering. It is a fundamentally different way of producing software, with different best practices and different use cases. J

A few major use cases for agentic coding for me: 1. Adhoc data visualizations. Anytime I have a question that can be answered quantitatively, I generate some code to make a plot. 2. Adhoc data annotat