Jean-Baptiste Dézard
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Jean-Baptiste Dézard
@jbdezard
Founder @DealExMachina. "Il n'est pas nécessaire de multiplier les choses essentielles." Science & Tech - Essential impacts on people & society.


Andrej Karpathy on autoresearch with an untrusted pool of workers: "My designs that incorporate an untrusted pool of workers (into autoresearch) actually look a little bit like a blockchain. Instead of blocks, you have commits, and these commits can build on each other and contain changes to the code as you're improving it. The proof of work is basically doing tons of experimentation to find the commits that work." The idea that distributed & permissionless autoresearch ~= proof-of-useful-work remains a high-level intuition for now, but it is extremely intriguing to say the least. Someone needs to take this further. See QT for more on what's missing.



It feels like we are top of the 3rd inning. The models aren’t the problem, they’re smart enough now. Now it’s about applying them at scale. AI-enabling a process or workflow (like we’ve been doing) is one thing. But reimagining and repaving that process or workflow as AI-native is where transformational change will begin to occur — at scale. It goes slow until it goes really fast. I think that’ll be the story of 2026.





Good piece on the "war time" at Cursor. Some interesting quotes: - The company’s new mandate was labeled “P0 #1”—priority zero: “Build the best coding model.” - Cursor estimated last year that a $200-per-month Claude Code subscription could use up to $2,000 in compute, suggesting significant subsidization by Anthropic. Today, that subsidization appears to be even more aggressive, with that $200 plan able to consume about $5,000 in compute, according to a different person who has seen analyses on the company’s compute spend patterns. forbes.com/sites/annatong…



>be me >want to pay @MistralAI money for their cool new audio transcription API >API docs have a "contact sales" button instead of a stripe link >Just run the model locally instead because I don't feel like fussing with a sales rep Do Europeans hate making money?






