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8 Aug 2026 The Cognitive Revolution Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent
“Again, there's more jobs than ever because I think, like, being able to operate effectively these tools requires a lot of knowledge and skill.”
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- 8 Aug 2026
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…the the job of the human to sort of discriminate and be able to tell the answers the okay answers from the great answers and know when to push back and know when to provide feedback and know when to follow a thread or to give up on a thread. And I think so far, the story has been coding at least. Again, there's more jobs than ever because I think, like, being able to operate effectively these tools requires a lot of knowledge and skill. But the biggest thing is, like, being able to dive into a new area, understand it really quickly, kind of gain the sort of metacognitive skills that help you generalize across domains. I think that's gonna be super that's always gonna be really, really valuable. I think AI makes two types of people really valuable. It makes the top specialists really valuable, and it makes the top generalists really valuable. I think now is a like, by far the best time in human history to be a generalist. So I think my my piece of advice to people would I think on a basic level, just develop develop sort of the metacognitive skills that help you learn quickly, help you filter signal from noise quickly, help you adapt to this, like, world of much higher information throughput, know where to look and when to look. Those are skills.…
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