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Pierre-Carl Langlais
Personal blog · vintagedata.org/blogai
Pierre-Carl Langlais's personal blog at vintagedata.org covers ai. Since 2025, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “The model is the product”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment is present, from the author, in the 'The model is the product' thread. It points to a follow-up post on designing LLM agents and cites recent RL progress as a reason agents are coming.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Co-founder & CTO of Pleias. Building open AI infrastructure. Open pre-training data, small language models, synthetic training environments.
Most-linked posts?
- The model is the product6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-03-02
- Training LLM Agents5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-03-13
- Synthetic Pretraining3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-02
- A Realistic AI Timeline3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-04-18
- What’s the Deal with Mid-Training?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-06
What Hacker News says?
Hi, author here. An important background is the imminent rise of actual LLM agents I discuss in the next post: https://vintagedata.org/blog/posts/designing-llm-agents So answering to a few comments: *The shift is coming relatively soon thanks to the latest RL breakthroughs (I really encourage to give a look at Will Brown talk). Anthropic and OpenAI are close to nail long multi-task sequences on specialized tasks. *T…
Comment linking /blog/posts/designing-llm-agents
on “The model is the product”Submitted The model is the product as a story · 237 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Realistic AI Timeline as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Realistic AI Timeline as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fine Tuning Services Benchmark as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The future of training data is synthetic as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Training LLM Agents as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Model Is the Product as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Model Is the Product as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The AI Decoupling as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Synthetic Pretraining as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Realistic AI Timeline as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Actual LLM agents are coming. They will be trained as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Actual LLM agents are coming. They will be trained as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Model Is the Product as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Model Is the Product as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What’s the Deal with Mid-Training? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Synthetic Pretraining as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Synthetic Pretraining as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's the Deal with LLM Mid-Training? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Actual LLM agents are coming. They will be trained as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Model Is the Product as a story · 1 points
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