Sholto Douglas (@_sholtodouglas) / X

Sholto Douglas

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Sholto Douglas

@_sholtodouglas

Scaling RL @AnthropicAI, ex @DeepMind - working towards intelligence too cheap to meter

Joined February 2018

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Sholto Douglas
@_sholtodouglas
Feb 28, 2025
Very excited to announce that I joined Anthropic at the start of the month! Everything I'm seeing says that we are on trend for AGI in 2027. If the trend lines continue - then we have a shot at building a radically better world, but the path there is fraught with very real
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Sholto Douglas
@_sholtodouglas
Oct 3, 2025
Should we have ‘keep thinking’ merch?
sam mcallister
@sammcallister
Oct 3, 2025
GOOD MORNING NEW YORK CITY COME DO YOUR BEST THINKING AT OUR THINKING SPACE IN THE WEST VILLAGE SAY NO TO SLOP
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Sholto Douglas
@_sholtodouglas
Sep 17, 2025
We're sorry - and we'll do better. We're working hard on making sure we never miss these kind of regressions and rebuilding our trust with you.
Claude
@claudeai
Sep 17, 2025
We've published a detailed postmortem on three infrastructure bugs that affected Claude between August and early September. In the post, we explain what happened, why it took time to fix, and what we’re changing:
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Sholto Douglas
@_sholtodouglas
Dec 6, 2023
Replying to @0interestrates and @nearcyan
Name order was randomised (except for the first 6 names which spell out Gemini) - Sergey was in with us basically every day, often pairing!
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Sholto Douglas
@_sholtodouglas
Sep 29, 2025
Claude 4.5 is the best coding model in the world - and the qualitative difference is quite eerie. I now trust it to run for much longer and to push back intelligently. As ever - everything about how its trained could be improved dramatically. There is so much room to go. It is
Mike Krieger
@mikeyk
Sep 29, 2025
We asked every version of Claude to make a clone of Claude(dot)ai, including today’s Sonnet 4.5… see what happened in the video
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Sholto Douglas
@_sholtodouglas
Sep 22, 2025
Underrated dynamic in the next ~12-18 months is we should expect models to get as good at kernel writing as they are at competition math/code contests. This is bullish for chip startups, since one of the major obstacles to adoption (learning your software stack), is softened
Lisan al Gaib
@scaling01
Sep 22, 2025
Tri Dao says Claude Code makes him 1.5x more productive and that it's quite helpful at writing Triton kernels
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Sholto Douglas
@_sholtodouglas
Sep 21, 2025
Or “hey why haven’t we solved continual learning yet”
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Sholto Douglas
@_sholtodouglas
Sep 25, 2025
Incredible work - this should immediately become one of the most important metrics for policy makers to track. We’re probably only a few months from crossing the parity line. Huge props to OAI for both doing the hard work of pulling this together and including our scores.
Tejal Patwardhan
@tejalpatwardhan
Sep 25, 2025
Understanding the capabilities of AI models is important to me. To forecast how AI models might affect labor, we need methods to measure their real-world work abilities. That’s why we created GDPval.
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Sholto Douglas
@_sholtodouglas
Sep 20, 2025
People often talk about the future of software engineering as looking like starcraft (managing swarms of agents). E.g. I just found out one friend uses 9 claude codes at once! I think this would be really fun as an actual PvP game - but I'm not sure what the right
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Sholto Douglas
@_sholtodouglas
Sep 18, 2025
As is tradition
Nat McAleese
@__nmca__
Sep 18, 2025
everything reminds me of him 😭
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Sholto Douglas
@_sholtodouglas
Jul 6, 2025
“Where did you meet the bootleg peptide dealer?” “At the underground robot boxing ring” Visceral future-shock
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Sholto Douglas
@_sholtodouglas
Jul 29, 2025
smh my ranking is below my best ever fencing world ranking (43rd), I've got some work to do
TBPN
@tbpn
Jul 29, 2025
Introducing The Metis List: a live leaderboard of 100 top AI researchers, ranked by their peers. We include: - Education - Citation count - Current company - # of Dwarkesh appearances - Notable work Check it out at MetisList dot com
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Sholto Douglas
@_sholtodouglas
Mar 25, 2024
High context people should write more 'requests for research / project' to give talented but unknown people threads to pull on and break into their worlds. Loosely "If you did a world class blog post on X, I know many people who'd be excited to meet you".
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Sholto Douglas
@_sholtodouglas
Sep 18, 2025
Replying to @ainergiz
Next version insanely better is the plan
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