The Highest Loop — swyx
AI development is defined by 'loop stacking.' The core skill is understanding your operational loop level—scaling up for productivity or scaling down for reliability.
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The Highest Loop — swyx AI development is defined by 'loop stacking.' The core skill is understanding your operational loop level—scaling up for productivity or scaling down for reliability. Every AI Company Is Accidentally Building a Bank — Dor Sasson, Stigg AI companies are accidentally building banks. Scaling AI requires moving beyond simple usage billing to complex financial infrastructure that checks entitlements synchronously before consumption. How Anthropic Builds: Lessons from Labs — Mike Krieger, Anthropic Mike Krieger discusses how to be 'unreasonable' with AI, detailing workflows like porting Python to TypeScript over a weekend using LLMs. He also shares lessons on scaling infrastructure and structuring research labs.
Every AI Company Is Accidentally Building a Bank — Dor Sasson, Stigg
AI companies are accidentally building banks. Scaling AI requires moving beyond simple usage billing to complex financial infrastructure that checks entitlements synchronously before consumption.
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How Anthropic Builds: Lessons from Labs — Mike Krieger, Anthropic
Mike Krieger discusses how to be 'unreasonable' with AI, detailing workflows like porting Python to TypeScript over a weekend using LLMs. He also shares lessons on scaling infrastructure and structuring research labs.
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Build a secure computer for your agent
LangSmith Sandboxes provide a secure, isolated computer for agents. Using hardware virtualized microVMs and an O proxy, they enable running untrusted model-generated code at scale while maintaining strict security controls.
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