Chris SloweChris SloweCTO, Founding Engineer, Reddit, Inc.

Chris Slowe's videos and podcasts

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September 2026

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With all of the FUD in the math community bubbling up around "yet another Erdos Problem solved by an...

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June 2026

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Lisa O has been my Chief of Staff at Reddit for six years, and with me having transitioned out of th...

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Goodhart's Law, applied to AI safety benchmarks: when the test score becomes the target, the test st...

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Goodhart's Law, applied to AI safety benchmarks: when the test score becomes the target, the test st...

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May 2026

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We're living through a period where "several major CVEs per week" has become the new normal, and som...

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April 2026

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Ten years ago, I came back to Reddit. Twenty years and change ago (October 2005, if we're being exac...

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Reddit showing up as a primary epistemic authority for GPT-4o isn’t a bug. It’s a signal. An eight-...

5mo ago
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robots.txt was always the pirate’s code. A convention, a pact, a gentleman’s agreement. The Ziff Dav...

6mo ago
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Wow this one is amazing! One of the most persistent annoyances with serious LLM use is memory fragme...

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Where a Chief AI Officer (or equivalent) sits in the org is governance by topology. Conway's law is...

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March 2026

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Dependency management is one of those problems that feels solved until it isn't, and then it really ...

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One of the "standard" computational benchmarks is, of course, "can it play DOOM". Well, someone ran...

6mo ago
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Community Notes is not a moderation system. It’s one layer in a governance stack, and the industry i...

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We still talk about “prompt injection” like it’s a quirky product bug, but that framing is too small...

6mo ago
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Proud to see Reddit recognized on FastCompany’s Most Innovative Companies list for 2026! I was espe...

6mo ago
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I’ve spent most of my career working in the cloud, and cloud hardware fails in ways your monitoring ...

7mo ago
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The shift in CEO sentiment about AI workforce planning tells you more about executive decision-makin...

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LinkedIn’s latest engineering-skills data is a useful tell. The market is not rewarding “AI enthusi...

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I spoke at Tech Show London last week about a question I’ve been thinking about for a long time: wha...

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January 2026

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Reddit CTO Chris Slowe: The Engineering Decisions That Built the Front Page of the Internet

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Christopher Slowe - Wikipedia

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Q&A

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Older

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Got a question (trolling or otherwise!) for our illustrious CISO Fredrick Lee (aka Flee)? Ask away!...

1y ago
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I love a good technical disaster story: here's one! https://lnkd.in/g5jSUup8

1y ago
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S1 E19: Chris Slowe, Reddit

1y ago
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For those of you out there who want to do #research on #reddit, we're working on a Plan! Details he...

2y ago
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Have a listen to the current version of Building Reddit, where you get to hear the brilliant Tyler O...

2y ago
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Chris Slowe (CTO at Reddit) Fireside Chat at Startup World Cup Grand Finale 2023

2y ago
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Testing is obviously an essential part of software development, but flaky tests can be nearly as muc...

2y ago