Emily Campbell

Alpha School isn’t really about AI. It’s about systems design — structure, autonomy, measurable feedback loops, and a currency that makes achievement feel meaningful.

You saw music as a platform to do things. Could Live Aid happen today?

I don’t think it’s possible now. Society has changed. The web is an isolating technology. It knows what you are, it drives you, it gives you what it thinks you want, and as you get jaded it gives you more extreme versions of that.

Now, music is free and you get the news that you... See more

just five months ago, the company’s best model ranked around one-millionth on a well-known benchmark for competitive coders—not great, but still in the top two or three percentile. Today, OpenAI’s top model, o3, ranks as the 175th best competitive coder in the world on that same test. The rapid leap in performance suggests an AI coding assistant... See more

Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.