Meet the Writer: Ashton Chew, Founding Engineer at Theta

In this interview, we catch up with Ashton, a founding engineer at Theta, to discuss the bleeding edge of Reinforcement Learning infrastructure. He breaks down the motivation behind his latest top story, explaining how current computer-use agents are "gaming" benchmarks rather than actually solving tasks. Beyond the technical deep dive, Ashton shares his writing process, why he believes "the screen is the API," and how bouldering helps him solve complex problems.