LLM Neuralanatomy with David Noel Ng, Forward Deployed Everybody, Preferences Revealed by AI

Artificial Developer Intelligence · May 22, 2026 · 1h 10m · transcript

This week on ADI Pod: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines ships its first product (interaction models), Meta employees fight the mouse-tracking program with flyers, and the Palantir-coined "forward deployed engineer" job title quietly takes over the post-AI engineering org chart. Our sit-down is with Dr. David Noel Ng (https://dnhkng.github.io/) — author of the LLM Neuroanatomy series we covered a few weeks back. He explains why he watched action potentials race down rat neurons at 10,000 fps before getting into LLM interpretability. Dan runs DeepSeek-V4 Flash on a 128 GB Ryzen 395 Max box and…