Nelson Elhage
Software engineer; writes Made of Bugs; formerly at Anthropic, Stripe and Ksplice.
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- Nelson Elhage is a software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about debugging, performance and computer systems.
- He previously worked at Anthropic on the interpretability of large language models.
- At Stripe he was a founding member of Sorbet, its open-source static type checker for Ruby.
- Earlier he worked at Ksplice, and at Oracle after it acquired Ksplice, on updating the Linux kernel without rebooting.
- He built livegrep, a real-time regex search over source code.
Key facts
- Previously
- Anthropic (interpretability), Stripe (Sorbet), Ksplice and Oracle1
- Open source
- livegrep, reptyr, Llama, Taktician1
- Writing
- blog.nelhage.com (Made of Bugs) and a newsletter on Buttondown1
Links
- nelhage.com (opens nelhage.com)
- Made of Bugs (opens blog.nelhage.com)
- GitHub @nelhage (opens github.com)
- Mastodon @nelhage (opens mastodon.social)
- Newsletter (opens buttondown.email)
- Where they publish (ppll) (opens ppll.app)
- What they believe (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
- What they recommend (rcmnd) (opens rcmnd.app)
Sources
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