Anthropic tells staff to work from scratch

It's probably wise to learn how to build LLMs from scratch? Thank you in advance. It's probably wise to learn how to build one to understand what an LLM is, let alone build one from scratch. A lot of people here are responding to the message but not to the meaning. It would be interesting to see how the Americans have a different view on this.

"...and then train..." and those dummies in openai and google wasting billions, while all they need is some 17 year old would, letting an LLM explain it to you is a terrible idea. If you are starting with little knowledge, like a 17 year old and few pizzas.

If you are 17, go be yourself, whatever that is, in whatever way you want that to be, but do it so authentically and fully. Be unapologetic about what you want to do.

It always seemed a missed opportunity that Microsoft Flight Simulator doesn't have a UFO mode or something where you don't need the huge hardware for pre-training etc. For models large enough to be essentially useless even if the underlying idea isn't terrible.