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Benjamin Mann

Ben is the co-founder of Anthropic. He serves as tech lead for product engineering.

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Productivity4 steps

Ambitious Retry (Pass@N) Tool Use

Get more from AI tools by asking for the ambitious change and fully restarting on failure instead of hammering the same attempt

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Innovation4 steps

Build for the Exponential (Skate to Where the Puck Is Going)

Build products for the model that arrives in 6-12 months, betting that today's 20%-working features hit 100%

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Innovation5 steps

Constitutional AI Self-Critique Loop

Align a model to written principles by having it critique and rewrite its own outputs, then train on the fix

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Mindset4 steps

Marginal-Impact Reasoning Under Tail Risk

Prioritize catastrophic low-probability risks by expected value and by how few people are already working on them

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Self-Mastery4 steps

Resting in Motion

Treat the busy, working state as your normal baseline so heavy long-term work stays sustainable

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Strategy4 steps

The Economic Turing Test

Measure transformative AI by whether you'd hire an agent for a real job without knowing it's a machine

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Strategy4 steps

Three Worlds Theory of Change

Decide what to actually do about a hard problem by naming the pessimistic, optimistic, and pivotal worlds you might be in

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