It Took Me Two Weeks to Read My Own Code
I drafted this chapter on May 14, the morning after the 3B benchmarks landed. The opening was a banger about “the inflection point at 3B parameters.” The conclusion explained how alignment tax shrinks with scale and flips positive between 2B and 3B. There was a chart. The chart had a smooth curve. I was very pleased with the chart. For two weeks I was going to publish that chapter. I told three people. I rehearsed a tweet thread. I picked which checkpoint to put in the OG image. ...
