Joachim Bartosik

Context: Memo #2 in my sequence of publishing Lightcone Infrastructure internal team memos about our organizational principles Delegation is good! Delegation is the foundation of civilization! But in the depths of delegation madness breeds and evil rises. In my experience, there are three ways in which delegation goes off the rails: 1.

This week I've read 2 pieces of interesting information: Apparently current models (in particular o3) are really good at GeoGuessr (Testing AI's GeoGuessr Genius), Apparently they have  very had time understanding what they see on screenshots from Pokemon Red, even when stuff is clearly marked (Research Notes: Running Claude 3.7, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and o3 on Pokémon Red). This is a puzzling to me. I find it much easier to find staircase in Pokemon Red than to figure out where s photo as taken.

Introducing Devin Is the era of AI agents writing complex code systems without humans in the loop upon us? Cognition is calling Devin ‘the first AI software engineer.’ Here is a two minute demo of Devin benchmarking LLM performance. Devin has its own web browser, which it uses to pull up documentation. Devin has its own code editor. Devin has its own command line. Devin uses debugging print statements and uses the log to fix bugs.