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Edward Z. Yang

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In Code review as human alignment, in the era of LLMs , I talked about how we should approach code review with other team members, where you have a pre-existing relationship and care about building human-to-human alignment over time. However, popular open source projects also need to account for drive-by contributions…

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Bitcoin is not decentralized

Bitcoin was designed by Satoshi Nakamoto, and the primary client is developed by a bunch of folks at bitcoin.org . Do you care who these people are? In theory, you shouldn’t: all they do is develop an open source client for an open source protocol. Anyone else can develop their own client (and some people have) and no…