In the weeks since I wrote my Fast Company profile of Sahil Lavingia (and he revealed he lost his role for that interview) there have been lots of interviews of him. The most interesting comes from ProPublica (npub1qmg…s6k5), which actually explained how Lavingia’s prompt-based analysis tools worked (and didn’t work):
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-veterans-affairs-ai-contracts-health-care
Ernie Smith
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