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GroundZero AI Talks
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Your friendly neighborhood creative space shaping the frontier of tech, with occasional conversations and notes.
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May 27, 2026
A Quest to Formalize Intelligence | Ludwig
<p>This is Episode 15 on Ground Zero!</p><p>Ludwig is 31yo programmer with no formal education. He dropped out in 7th grade - started programming around age 10 - began working at 15 - and later worked on distributed systems for a company with hundreds of millions of users. You might know Ludwig for systems programming, ML, intelligence, mathematics, software-engineering culture and his X presence.</p><p>Ludwig [Guest]: https://x.com/ludwigABAPHimanshu [Host at GroundZero]: https://x.com/himanshustwtsGroundZero: https://groundzeroai.in</p><p>SPONSOR: Haize Labs (https://haizelabs.com) is building expert-level agents for mission-critical work, powered by proprietary Reliability Harness. They are doing some ambitious and interesting work. Checkout Leonard Tang (Cofounder and CEO) articles to learn more: https://x.com/leonardtang_/articles</p><p>To sponsor future episodes, visit https://www.groundzeroai.in/partner</p><p><br></p><p>TIMESTAMPS:</p><p>0:00:00 - INTRO0:01:06 - What are you most excited about these days?0:03:31 - All arcs are isomorphic, Dropping out in 7th grade0:09:31 - Does skipping formal education make you naturally broader?0:10:11 - Growing up on 4chan, Mathematics is humbling0:14:52 - Mentors, First programming job, Internet microcultures0:21:47 - Culture in SF, Why he won't start a company0:25:21 - Does AI make self-teaching easier or trap you in infinite explanations?0:29:49 - The 20% doing 80% inside a company0:33:24 - Company culture and Building subcultures0:35:56 - How do you define understanding, compression equals prediction0:45:44 - Understanding vs knowing, Michael Levin, Cognitive light cones0:54:39 - Starting a research lab, Sheaf theory and Grothendieck0:58:43 - Mapping Levin's biology onto proof space with MCTS and Lean41:02:49 - Active inference, Distributed systems and Morphogenesis1:12:28 - Signal vs noise on X, The unit distance proof, Flanderization1:17:39 - Community Questions1:21:39 - Shape rotator vs wordcel, Tenstorrent, How to hire great engineers1:28:01 - Building mental space to do things that will be left to do1:33:42 - Advice to a 20-year-old. Be a capable thinker, you have 20,000 days left</p><p><br></p>
May 16, 2026
The Delta of Intelligence is Human Data | Curtis Northcutt (Director of AI Research, Handshake)
<p>Curtis Northcutt joins us on GroundZero.He is Director of AI Research at Handshake, founder of Cleanlab (acquired by Handshake) and invented confident learning during his PhD at MIT. In this conversation, we dig into why the delta between model generations is almost entirely human data, the four quadrants of the AI market, how expert data labeling is deeply misunderstood, the long tail of human knowledge that AI still can't touch, RL environments, coding benchmarks and nuances around Human Data market.PS: Handshake’s revenue has risen to nearly $1 billion up from $550 million in January and $5 million a year ago.</p><p><br></p><p>TIMESTAMPS</p><p><br></p><p>00:00:00 - Intro</p><p>00:02:08 - The Snowman Effect: Growing Up in Rural Kentucky to 7 Years at MIT</p><p>00:09:50 - Confident Learning, Two Systems of Intelligence & Why Classical ML Still Matters</p><p>00:20:37 - The Origin of Cleanlab & the Handshake Acquisition</p><p>00:28:00 - How Does GPT-5 Become GPT-6?</p><p>00:31:20 - The Fastest Growing Data Lab: What Makes Handshake Different?</p><p>00:35:32 - The Difference Between Good Data & Bad Data</p><p>00:38:17 - New Kinds of Data, IA & AI</p><p>00:42:04 - Scaling Coding Benchmarks & Efficiency in Long-Horizon Tasks</p><p>00:49:12 - Pre-Training & Misconceptions Around Human Data</p><p>00:57:13 - Open Questions: Taste, Personality & Quick Fire</p><p>01:05:15 - Advice to Your 20-Year-Old Self: Skill & Obsession</p>
May 16, 2026
The Never Ending Lore of Harness | Vivek Trivedy (Product Lead, Langchain)
<p>In this episode, Viv joins us on Ground Zero. He leads open source agents and harnesses at LangChain. In this conversation, we go deep into what a harness actually is, Deepagents, Context rot, Why agents should be more opinionated, Harness as a Service, File System, how different frontier models behave in agent workloads, Meta Harness, RL Envs and beyond that.</p><p><br></p><p>TIMESTAMPS</p><p><br></p><p>00:00:00 - Intro</p><p>00:03:30 - PhD at Temple & First Startup in Vision</p><p>00:12:42 - Bio Internship at Lockheed Martin & Mike Mill Lore</p><p>00:16:18 - Building at LangChain, DeepAgents & R&D in Open Source</p><p>00:25:09 - Harness Design, Filesystems & Foundational Harness Primitives</p><p>00:42:25 - Trajectories for Continual Learning, Where Not to Use RL, Skills & Context Rot</p><p>00:56:30 - Harness Engineering: OpenClaw, Hermes, Custom Harnesses & Quick Fire</p><p>01:12:15 - Meta-Harnesses, Self-Improvement Loops, Simulation-as-a-Service & RL Environments</p><p>01:28:30 - Advice to Anyone 20 / Starting Out in College</p>
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