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title: "An interview with Goodfire researcher Nick Cammarata, whose viral blog post claimed LLMs are easier to understand than thought, as other researchers push back (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/an-interview-with-goodfire-researcher-nick-cammarata-whose-viral-blog-cb0580ad
published: 2026-10-21T02:10:01.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# An interview with Goodfire researcher Nick Cammarata, whose viral blog post claimed LLMs are easier to understand than thought, as other researchers push back (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-10-21 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/an-interview-with-goodfire-researcher-nick-cammarata-whose-viral-blog-cb0580ad

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review : An interview with Goodfire researcher Nick Cammarata, whose viral blog post claimed LLMs are easier to understand than thought, as other researchers push back — "I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks." With those simple words of optimism, Nick Cammarata …

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261020/p58#a261020p58)

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