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Co-founder @kortexco. Designing & building the second brain app. On leave @uoftengineering.

Toronto, Ontario
Joined January 2023
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@TheMatthewAo
Matthew Ao
2 years
What do I even say to this
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RT @rasmickyy: So I won gang . Glory to Jesus ❤️💪🏾
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Congrats to @rasmickyy to winning our hackathon!.
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I'm tired of chat being the defacto ai interface. I wanted to explore a canvas first interface for my hackathon project and I really enjoyed the UX
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POV: this is what the company meant by “healthy work environment”
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Matthew Ao
2 months
HackAI Toronto is launching in 3 weeks. $10,000 for first prize. $5,000 for second. This is not a hackathon for beginners. We’re only accepting 50 of Canada’s most talented full stack engineers. 10 days left to apply:
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RT @TheMatthewAo: @vitddnv and I are teaming up to launch HackAI Toronto, Canada's most competitive AI hackathon. 24 hours. 50 hackers. $1….
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3 months
holy shit, linkedin shitposting converts
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3 months
If you also want to hire 10x developers, you need to start filtering out engineers with healthy relationships from your hiring process. Comment "WORK IS LIFE" down below if you want me to send over a document with our proprietary interview questions.
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3 months
When candidates ask about work-life balance, we show them our company values poster which just says "WORK IS LIFE" in increasingly smaller text until it causes eye strain.
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Matthew Ao
3 months
I sat on them.
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Matthew Ao
3 months
Last week, I visited one of our engineers' apartments. I was surprised to find a shelf lined with neatly folded paper cranes, flowers, dragons, and other origami items. They were meticulous and beautiful. I could tell how much time and care she put into her handcrafted origami.
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Matthew Ao
3 months
Our collab server and CRDT algorithms were built by someone who coded through his own sister's wedding, communicating his blessings via pull request comments.
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Matthew Ao
3 months
In April, our backend lead debugged a prod outage during his engineering graduation ceremony.
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Matthew Ao
3 months
At Kortex, we've developed a proprietary interview process where candidates must prove they've missed at least 3 significant life events to work on trivial feature updates.
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Matthew Ao
3 months
I don't trust engineers who have healthy relationships with their families or maintain any hobbies outside of coding. Since LeetCode interviews no longer work (thanks to @im_roy_lee), we've found a new way to assess a candidate's aptitude.
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OpenAI just acquired Windsurf for $3 billion. Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, is in talks to raise at a $10 billion valuation. One thing is becoming clear: the world of engineering is going AI-first. In light of this paradigm shift, our startup has replaced all of our
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RT @timo_rf: It’s really hard to find competent engineers
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Last month, I replaced all our office desks with treadmills, and our code quality immediately improved 500%. Physical comfort leads to mental complacency, which is why our engineers must maintain a constant walking pace of at least 2.7 mph while building critical AI writing.
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