Project summary

1-month full-time contributing software to Inspect.

What are this project's goals? How will you achieve them?

Goals:

• Make improvements to Inspect.

• Add more evals to Inspect.

• Test my fit as a software engineer for evals.

• Build career capital.

How I'll achieve them:

• Concrete ways:

  • Port benchmarks not yet in Inspect (e.g. TheAgentCompany, RE-Bench, and MLGym).

  • Develop Python packages implementing collections of Inspect solvers, tools, and scorers (e.g. like Inspect Cyber).

  • Implement realistic test environments like WebArena for testing a wider range of agent scenarios in contained settings.

  • Build tools for analyzing log files/reviewing transcripts to identify reasons for failure (if Docent isn’t doing all of this).

  • Build tools for presenting collections of results in dashboards (i.e. contribute to ​​https://github.com/ArcadiaImpact/inspect_evals_dashboard).

  • Build tools for LM agents to use (e.g. search through https://github.com/aorwall/moatless-tools for tools which help/might be useful and build them in Inspect).

• Default ways/in general:

  • Try to complete open issues in Inspect repos.

  • Ask the developers in the Inspect Slack workspace how to contribute.
    

How will this funding be used?

This is meant to replace as much of my salary in industry as possible (which would mean about $15,000 per month).

Who is on your team? What's your track record on similar projects?

Just me. I maintain open source projects like SAELens, neuronpedia, and SAEDashboard.

What are the most likely causes and outcomes if this project fails?

Causes:

• I don't:

  • Ramp up on the codebase fast enough.

  • Have enough work for 1 month full-time.

Outcomes:

• I don't:

  • Make any significant improvements to Inspect.

  • Add many evals to Inspect.

  • Know my fit as a software engineer for evals.

  • Build career capital.
    

How much money have you raised in the last 12 months, and from where?

None.