My god this is such a good speech that every SWE needs to hear. You know what? Every person should hear it Keep the happy memories, eyes on the reality, be excited about the future. That’s the best that anyone can do

Do 3D reconstruction transformers really need a billion parameters, or are most of those layers just doing the same thing over and over? Introducing Déjà View: a single transformer block, looped K times, that matches or beats models 8–10× its size with lower compute. 🧵

Call me old, but I ❤️ walking aimlessly through bookstores and discovering new books.

Protein–ligand cofolding models are getting incredibly powerful… but do they have to be so slow? 🧬🐢💊 Our new preprint introduces a new flow-map framework called DeCAF for fast few-step cofolding — up to 5× faster while preserving sample quality on the SOTA Pearl model and 20x faster than Boltz 1x. ⚡🧵 📜 Blog: genesis.ml/news/genesis-mode… 🔗arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2606.08375 Code (coming soon): github.com/genesistherapeuti…

Next-token prediction is myopic. What if transformers learn to predict their own next latent state? 🌠 We present 𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁-𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗟𝗮𝘁): a self-supervised learning method that teaches transformers to form compact world models for reasoning and planning. It also unlocks up to 3.3x faster inference via self-speculative decoding! 🚀

Thanks #NeurIPS2026! To really show your appreciation, can I now purchase a Sydney registration? 😉

I’m as excited about the possibilities AI brings as anyone. I should be because I’ve worked on it since 1985. But I want to balance this excitement with a dose of humanity and what still makes people both special and necessary. Despite its nearly infinite knowledge, I still write better than Claude. Why? Precisely because I’m human. I understand my audience in a way Claude can’t and maybe never will. I understand what it means to be bored, confused, and distracted because I’ve been board, confused, and distracted. I’ve been moved to tears by words on a page. I have empathy for my reader because I too am a reader with a limited human brain. So, when I write, I write for you, dear reader. Your time is precious. I need to earn your attention. Writing is a very imperfect process of communication from one human to another. In contrast to my writing, Claude is brutalist. It assaults with declaratives. It fires off staccato jargon with no sympathy for a reader who is lost. Sure, you can coax it to behave but it doesn’t do this out of empathy for the reader because it lacks this. Claude’s default style reveals the true heart of the machine. I hope my writing also has a bit of style, a little be of me, in it. A trail of words guiding you into a little part of my mind. The words are a fingerprint left behind. Claude leaves a big greasy fingerprint that is unmistakable. In that sense it has style. But that style reveals its lack of empathy for the reader. The best word for it is “condescending”. What drives me to write this missive is some small creative spark and a human drive to share it. I woke up this morning with “a bee in my bonnet” about our societal enthusiasm and fear about AI. I need to write to articulate my thoughts to myself and hopefully to you. AI is getting very very good. But I’m still better at this and other things. I’m sure that you too are better than AI at what you do. Real humans are still more creative and more interesting than AI. I want facts from AI, but I want to know what humans think and feel. I hope we blunder onwards into the future writing, creating, and sharing in our wonderfully imperfect human way. If you read something written by me, know that it was written by me. It is my brain reaching out to yours without the filter of AI. My words. Imperfect. Like me and like you.