Mechanize, Inc.

We are a software company that builds RL environments and sells them to the leading AI labs. Our RL environments simulate real-world work scenarios. Models are dropped into these environments and tasked with completing objectives, such as building a new design feature, refactoring a codebase, or debugging an application. Their work is graded based on how successfully they perform these tasks. These grades serve as reward signals during training, teaching models how to complete real-world tasks effectively.

While we build RL environments, we don’t train models directly. Instead, AI labs use our RL environments for training. We don’t plan to release any consumer-facing products in the foreseeable future. Our current focus is automating software engineering, but our long-term goal is to enable the automation of all valuable work in the economy. Our selection of essays below helps explain our vision and worldview:

Essays

• Announcing Mechanize Inc.
• How to fully automate software engineering
• The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL
• Sweatshop data is over
• Medical AI isn’t the bottleneck to medical progress

Mechanize is backed by investments from Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, Patrick Collison, Dwarkesh Patel, Sholto Douglas, and Marcus Abramovitch.

We are hiring software engineers.
For inquiries, you can reach us at contact@mechanize.work.
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