Karina Nguyen

OpenAI researcher on why soft skills are the future of work | Karina Nguyen (Research at OpenAI, ex-Anthropic)

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Opening
Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:00): Not only are you working at the cutting edge of AI and LLMs, you're actually building the cutting edge. Karina Nguyen (00:00:06): When I first came to Anthropic and I was like, "Oh my God, I really love front-end engineering." And then the reason why I switched to research is because I realized, "Oh my God, Claude is getting better at front-end. Claude is getting better at coding. I think Claude can develop new apps....

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Low-ego framing
front-end engineering." And then the reason why I switched to research is because I realized, "Oh my God, Claude is getting better at front-end. Claude is getting better at coding. I think Claude...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Christina Cacioppo (00:04:41): Thank you. Lenny Rachitsky (00:04:45): Karina, thank you so much for being here. Welcome to the podcast. Karina...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Low-ego framing
basically... the first agent feature of OpenAI. I also just did this survey, I don't know if you know about this. I did a survey of my readers and asked them what tools do you use every day in your work and...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Karina Nguyen (01:14:03): Thank you so much, Lenny. Lenny...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Ending
my website. And my team is hiring and so I'm looking for research engineers, research scientists, as well as machine learning engineers, people who come from product engineers who want to learn model training. I'm actually hiring for my team. My team is called Frontier Product Research, and we train models, we develop new methods but for product oriented outcomes. Lenny Rachitsky (01:13:38): What a place to work. Holy moly. What's the best way for people to apply for these very lucrative roles?...

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