DeepMind's Petar Veličković on finishing a book as LLMs arrived
PetarV_93 · x · 2026-11-11
DeepMind researcher Petar Veličković reflected on co-writing a book as the LLM wave hit: Taco Cohen once asked whether to rush it or wait until an agent could write the whole book. He's glad they didn't rush — he used agents heavily for the final chapters and all figures, but wrote the text itself "artisanally," a candid window into how researchers view LLMs' impact on knowledge production.
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