Ex-Anthropic researcher quits citing IPO roadshow slide showing superexponential compute gains
voooooogel · x · 2026-11-15
Former Anthropic pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon says a slide from Anthropic's IPO roadshow was a big factor in his decision to quit. The slide shows the pre-training compute multiplier for code since July 2024 on a log scale, with the curve bending upward — his take: superexponential algorithmic progress, and Mythos could be retrained with a fraction of the original compute.
Note the fine print: data points are "based on internal vibes and solely for illustrative purposes" — recursive self-improvement is now part of an IPO pitch, as a meme slide.
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