With all of the FUD in the math community bubbling up around "yet another Erdos Problem solved by an...
Lisa O has been my Chief of Staff at Reddit for six years, and with me having transitioned out of th...
Goodhart's Law, applied to AI safety benchmarks: when the test score becomes the target, the test st...
Goodhart's Law, applied to AI safety benchmarks: when the test score becomes the target, the test st...
We're living through a period where "several major CVEs per week" has become the new normal, and som...
Ten years ago, I came back to Reddit. Twenty years and change ago (October 2005, if we're being exac...
Reddit showing up as a primary epistemic authority for GPT-4o isn’t a bug. It’s a signal. An eight-...
robots.txt was always the pirate’s code. A convention, a pact, a gentleman’s agreement. The Ziff Dav...
Wow this one is amazing! One of the most persistent annoyances with serious LLM use is memory fragme...
Where a Chief AI Officer (or equivalent) sits in the org is governance by topology. Conway's law is...
Dependency management is one of those problems that feels solved until it isn't, and then it really ...
One of the "standard" computational benchmarks is, of course, "can it play DOOM". Well, someone ran...
Community Notes is not a moderation system. It’s one layer in a governance stack, and the industry i...
We still talk about “prompt injection” like it’s a quirky product bug, but that framing is too small...
Proud to see Reddit recognized on FastCompany’s Most Innovative Companies list for 2026! I was espe...
I’ve spent most of my career working in the cloud, and cloud hardware fails in ways your monitoring ...
The shift in CEO sentiment about AI workforce planning tells you more about executive decision-makin...
LinkedIn’s latest engineering-skills data is a useful tell. The market is not rewarding “AI enthusi...
I spoke at Tech Show London last week about a question I’ve been thinking about for a long time: wha...

Reddit CTO Chris Slowe: The Engineering Decisions That Built the Front Page of the Internet
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Got a question (trolling or otherwise!) for our illustrious CISO Fredrick Lee (aka Flee)? Ask away!...
For those of you out there who want to do #research on #reddit, we're working on a Plan! Details he...
Have a listen to the current version of Building Reddit, where you get to hear the brilliant Tyler O...

Chris Slowe (CTO at Reddit) Fireside Chat at Startup World Cup Grand Finale 2023
Testing is obviously an essential part of software development, but flaky tests can be nearly as muc...