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The speaker considers speculative PTC a straightforward, nearly obvious technique that should be applied to coding tasks involving programmatic agent calls, including RLMS or CodeAct.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“okay let's let's talk about mismanaged news for a little bit i the only comment i'll say on speculative ptc is that it's a really simple idea it's almost like obvious that this should be done and like there's not much more to talk about it like i think it's just like you should just use it for for like coding like anything with programmatic agent calling like rlms or code act like yeah it's like it's like a no-brainer”Play from 1:20:03Report a misattribution
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