'Pacing the frontier' misses the point: fast sprints leave vital prosaic AI safety work undone
ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-10-04
- Commenting on Daniel Kokotajilo's widely shared essay about resigning from OpenAI, the author argues the "pacing the frontier" debate overlooks a key issue: beyond needing time to solve alignment, companies moving this fast simply never get around to lots of simple but important prosaic work.
- The quoted post praises the essay's argument that Silicon Valley culture is built on panicked sprints and trial and error, which don't foster the wisdom needed to build advanced AI.
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