Misha Laskin
@MishaLaskin
Co-founder, CEO at @reflection_ai. Prev: Staff Research Scientist @DeepMind. Gemini RL team.
Engineers spend 70% of their time understanding code, not writing it. That’s why we built Asimov at @reflection_ai. The best-in-class code research agent, built for teams and organizations.
I was one of the 16 devs in this study. I wanted to speak on my opinions about the causes and mitigation strategies for dev slowdown. I'll say as a "why listen to you?" hook that I experienced a -38% AI-speedup on my assigned issues. I think transparency helps the community.
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The biggest question in RL research has always been - what environment are you training on? It used to be video (Atari) and board (Go / Chess) games. But now that RL works with LLMs, there is only one environment that matters. And it is your product.
Why you should stop working on RL research and instead work on product // The technology that unlocked the big scaling shift in AI is the internet, not transformers I think it's well known that data is the most important thing in AI, and also that researchers choose not to work…
It’s easy to fine-tune small models w/ RL to outperform foundation models on vertical tasks. We’re open sourcing Osmosis-Apply-1.7B: a small model that merges code (similar to Cursor’s instant apply) better than foundation models. Links to download and try out the model below!
I’m thrilled to announce the launch of my $40M pre-seed and seed-stage fund, @SevenStars_VC, where I’ll be focused on partnering with visionary founders building enduring AI application companies across consumer and enterprise technology. Seven Stars is deeply personal. It’s…
I’m non-technical and built the app I always wanted with AI. I like art and history, and wanted an easy way to learn more about both. I take a photo, wait a few seconds, and get a two-minute audio tour of what I’m seeing. Feels wild to go from non-technical to vibe coding an…
.@real_ioannis helped create one of the most powerful agents built to date, AlphaGo. @mishalaskin led reward modeling for Google Gemini. At @reflection_ai, they're building superintelligent coding systems that learn from their mistakes. 🔗 👇 sequoiacap.com/article/reflec…
Founders who were PhD or post-doc in my lab at Berkeley, **largely funded by NSF / DoD grants**, start-up, market cap (collected by OpenAI Deep Research)
We are Reflection. We’re building superintelligent autonomous systems. Starting with autonomous coding.