Quip: "Slowing down for safety" is indistinguishable from "we're out of compute"
JosephJacks_ · x · 2026-09-11
Joseph Jacks: "We have to slow down for safety reasons" is 100% indistinguishable from "We are totally maxed out on compute" — a pointed jab at safety rhetoric potentially masking compute constraints.
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