Brendan Long

Brendan Long, an independent developer, launched a chess training app at chess-pretraining.brendanlong.com that applies imitation learning principles to human chess improvement by having users choose …

Brendan Long's experiments on GPT-OSS-20B show that detailed, repetitive prompts had no effect on controlling chain-of-thought (CoT) formatting, with no working discrete prompts found at realistic pos…

Brendan Long used Claude Opus to rank his blog posts by interestingness for a LessWrong and programmer audience, finding that the AI's rankings aligned well with his own judgment and outperformed metr…