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Hannah Henderson
Senior Manager, Engineering
Hannah moved into tech from mechanical engineering and has over a decade of experience building products and engineering teams. Along the way, she helped build satellites, skyscrapers, and developer tools at companies including CircleCI, Transcend, and Lockheed Martin. Hannah is a word nerd and enjoys exploring by getting “lost” but not “lost-lost”. Hike with her at your own peril.
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November 12, 2025
If it Wanted to, it Would: The Bitter Lesson for LLM Users
Systems, like people, have things they "want" to do. Each model has patterns of reasoning and synthesis it performs naturally. Power users learn to align with these representational grooves to get the "best" results and the highest-signal reasoning per token.
