Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago
In this short conversation, Dexter Horthy reflects on a theme that stuck with him from Dwarkesh Unplugged: just as high-energy physics stopped being a solo pursuit and became the work of hundreds of engineers at CERN, the era of one researcher and a couple of GPUs stumbling onto a breakthrough is giving way to AI as a genuinely collaborative effort. He ties it back to HumanLayer's core thesis — that building great software will always be a team effort — and to the bigger question the day left him with: what else is a team sport now?
In this short conversation, Dexter Horthy reflects on a theme that stuck with him from Dwarkesh Unplugged: just as high-energy physics stopped being a solo pursuit and became the work of hundreds of engineers at CERN, the era of one researcher and a couple of GPUs stumbling onto a breakthrough is giving way to AI as a genuinely collaborative effort. He ties it back to HumanLayer's core thesis — that building great software will always be a team effort — and to the bigger question the day left him with: what else is a team sport now?
