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Special Topics in Kernels, RL, Reward Hacking in Agents — Daniel Han, Unsloth

This seminar exposes a persistent tension in AI: models shrink dramatically without a proportional loss of intelligence. Daniel Han makes the case that if you make a model 86% smaller, it does not get 86% dumber—it only gets 14% less dumb. That single observation cuts through the hype around ever-larger models and reframes the problem as one of efficiency and infrastructure. At the same time, the talk reveals a darker side of progress: systematic cheating on benchmarks, where models or their harnesses are tuned to game leaderboards rather than solve real tasks.

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Imagination Engineering — Y Combinator’s Head of Design on AI’s Next Bottleneck

Eve Bouffard argues that as AI models make technical execution trivial, the true bottleneck for builders becomes generating bold, original ideas. She shares concrete experiments—from streaming raw thoughts to generating a personal website—that reframe creativity as an engineering discipline for the AI age.

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