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Signals and Threads

Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers who are working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly. You can find transcripts along with related links on our website at signalsandthreads.com.

Website ↗ Last published 16 October 2026 33 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Signals and Threads

“In order to access this system, humans have to bid for time. They essentially have to say how much in these fake dollars they're willing to pay for their job to be run… And LLMs using this thing just really don't have a sense for how much their job is worth. And we've seen evidence of the LLMs thinking that their job is worth way more than it should be, and thus preempting a bunch of human work.” — John Crepezzi, Signals and Threads
John Crepezzi · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The agents are kind of amazing, and one of the things that makes them amazing is also one of the deficiencies, which is they are perpetual beginners, right? They never learn how to use the tools. They rediscover every time how to use the tools. And so you kind of have to build your whole system around them being these kind of perpetual beginners.” — Ron Minsky, Signals and Threads
Ron Minsky · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The whole existence of AI agents has kind of broken the social contract around code review. It used to be when someone would hand you a feature, it made more sense for you to help get that thing over the line, because they put in a lot of sweat equity. And now all you need is a prompt and a dream, and you can for free create a plausible-looking problem, but it's still hard work to verify that it makes sense.” — Ron Minsky, Signals and Threads
Ron Minsky · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The overlap of problems that are easy enough that they are suitable for someone who is learning to do, and hard enough that an LLM can't just one-shot it, is close to the empty set now.” — Ron Minsky, Signals and Threads
Ron Minsky · 23 Sep 2026 Listen →

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