Then I spent a month doing post-training. So, to understand the research side of it. And I think, honestly, that's just, for me, as an engineer, I find that to do good work you really have to understand the layer under the layer at which you work. And with traditional engineering work, if you're working on product, you want to understand the infrastructure, the run time, the virtual machine, the language, whatever that is, the system that you're building on. But, yeah. If you work in AI, you just really have to understand the model to some degree to do good work. So, I took a little detour to do that, and then I came back and just started prototyping what eventually became Claude Code.
If you work in AI, you just really have to understand the model to some degree to do good work.