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Published · transcript-backedDan Balsam: belief
8 Aug 2026 The Cognitive Revolution Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent
“We decided to make that accessible and decided that's what we believe is the product and the service that we can offer to the world is fundamentally AIs that can debug other AIs. It's a little meta, but I think in many ways, this is like the fulfillment of, I think, what was sort of the intuitive natural arc of things as soon as AI started working a few years ago.”
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…to study models. We decided to make that accessible and decided that's what we believe is the product and the service that we can offer to the world is fundamentally AIs that can debug other AIs. It's a little meta, but I think in many ways, this is like the fulfillment of, I think, what was sort of the intuitive natural arc of things as soon as AI started working a few years ago. Yeah. It's it's all happening incredibly fast. It's it's wild how, you know, we're we're past the meter curve. All these different things are are are kind of falling. How would you describe the product experience? It's a little bit sort of reminiscent in a way of an old Google Colab notebook sort of thing where you have kind of a compute environment that is abstracted away. You don't have really worry about managing it so much. You have certain libraries, and now those are kind of instead of libraries, it's like more skills. Of course, there's libraries too. How do you how when you if you just tell describe it to a researcher who hasn't seen it, how do you describe what the experience is really like?…
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