literal hardest role to hire for rn and every ai startup wants someone
> chronically online (knows trends)
> has taste & can create (new media)
> understands ai & technical
> can execute with quality (operator)
such a small niche of folks who can do this
Life update: I defended my PhD at @StanfordAILab and recently joined @OpenAI!
Extremely thankful to my advisors (@chelseabfinn & @percyliang), collaborators, friends, and everyone else who supported me along the way. ❤️
Very excited for this next chapter!
I left @fal to start something new.
GTA 6 costs $2B. 50k game devs have been laid off since 2022. At the same time this last week one person with opus 5.5 + fal can mashup/remix any game they want in a weekend, and those mods did 1B+ views across social platforms in a week.
the
I, along with the rest of the Deno company, am joining Cloudflare!
I'm motivated by abstractions that give leverage at scale. The Cloudflare workers programming model is a hermetic computing abstraction that truly embodies the old Sun Microsystems tagline "The Network Is the
Job news: Next week I'm starting at @figma 👨🏻💻 I've been using Figma for so many years that this feels a little surreal. Super excited to get started 🥳
Many founders wish they had true peers & thought partners in comms & people leadership roles.
If you’re gifted with words & people, these roles are opportunities to have meaningful impact at top companies and they’re less competitive than being a top founder/investor/creator.
"What's more impressive to you: someone who went to Stanford, or someone who is followed by Patrick Collison, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen?"
Erik Torenberg on the peer-to-peer credential, and why attention from the right people can open more doors than a degree:
"My friend
Today we are open-sourcing 🥕Karotte, our framework for building RL environments.
We've used it for the past year to build MLE RL environments for frontier labs, and it's been hardened through 1M+ evaluation runs and red-teaming.
"What's more impressive to you: someone who went to Stanford, or someone who is followed by Patrick Collison, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen?"
Erik Torenberg on the peer-to-peer credential, and why attention from the right people can open more doors than a degree:
"My friend David Perell said, 'My Twitter account is more valuable to me than my college education. My Twitter has given me more value to my career and also personally.'"
"College is a bundle of education, network, and credential. You learn from having conversations. You meet people and discover people. It's proof of work: Are they interesting? Are they funny? Did they build something cool?"
"What's more impressive to you: someone who went to Stanford, or someone who is followed by Patrick Collison, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, et cetera? I think most people would say the latter. It's this kind of peer-to-peer credential."
"Implicitly, although people often do this explicitly, that is a cosign. It's an endorsement that this person is worth tracking. It's a public signal that this person is worth following."
"If you're followed by these people, now your doors are open. People want to read what you say. They want to work with you. They want to invest in you or have you as part of their team."
"There's benefit to the receiver but there's also benefit to the giver because if you're the first person to discover someone, that's how Silicon Valley operates."
@eriktorenberg
Excited to release Discourse, a tech forum for the modern era.
discourse.cosign.co
Today, the discourse in tech is either free for all (broadcast social networks) or completely private (group chats). There’s no midsize social network where a few thousand tech leaders
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