
Nathan Labenz
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Oct 6, 2026
Zero Friction, Infinite Resumes, No Hope with Nathan Labenz
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Nathan LabenzGUEST
... that are trying to scale up to solve particular problems in AI right now, and they need a lot of humans to do that, again, both in the research kind of core roles, but also in all the other roles that make organizations work, HR, comms, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Nathan LabenzGUEST
And then yeah, I do think there's also gonna be a lot of roles at companies that are kind of like make the AI work.
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Is AI Slowing Down? Nathan Labenz Says We're Asking the Wrong Question
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Erik TorenbergHOST
I'm curious if that's still your your your litmus test or how you think about it.

Nathan LabenzGUEST
Well, for one thing, I think that meter paper is worth unpacking a little bit more because this was one of those things that was...

Nathan LabenzGUEST
And I'm a big fan of meter, and I have no shade on them because I do think, do science publish your results? Like, that's good.

Nathan LabenzGUEST
You don't have to make every experimental result and everything you put out conform to a narrative.

Nathan LabenzGUEST
It was a little bit too easy for people who wanted to say that, oh, this is all nonsense to latch onto that.

Nathan LabenzGUEST
And, you know, again, there's something there that I would kind of put in the Cal Newport category too, where for me, maybe the most interesting thing was the users thought that they were faster when in fact they seem to be slower.
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Erik TorenbergHOST
What do you make of the claim that 80% of AI startups have Chinese open models? What do you make of the claim and the implications?