Alistair McLeay
@alistairmcleay
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Training LLMs since before it was cool • Co-CEO @Grw_AI • Prev working on AI agents @Cambridge_Uni • Building in SF • Made in NZ
San Francisco
Joined August 2015
This week @TroyHammo had me in the studio to talk about some of the crazy times so far at Grw, my journey as a founder, and the future of AI. Links to the full episode below!
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Landed in SF today! Looking for a place for my wife and myself. Any tips on finding something in the craziness?
SF is filling up like a gold rush town right now Rental market is so insane that my cofounder has been homeless for almost 3 months Offices moving from Hayes hackerhouses to "The Arena" in the Mission to FiDi high rises, as headcounts increase
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Youtube: https://t.co/Mugehxap1S Spotify: https://t.co/nStU2RBx30 Apple Podcasts:
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Podcast Episode · Startup Theatre Podcast · 08/10/2025 · 1h 19m
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This is the first time I’ve ever had to reach for the mute words function on here
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Be interested in other people. This will serve you in ways you can't imagine.
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You can just do things. The vast majority of limitations are self-imposed.
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It's surprisingly hard to predict whether a post will get 100 views or 100K views as a small account on here.
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Everyone's debating evals right now. For most people it's missing the point. What matters is pace of learning. When building AI features it's 10X easier to get to 80% of user value than traditional software. But 10X harder to get the final 20%. Yet teams are trying to get to
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seeing chamath next to zuck and tim cook w/ the president really teaches me a lesson i wish i could unlearn
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seems like the sentiment on here has turned for the better on gpt5 over the last few weeks
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I went to grad school here (Cambridge). Paid for it with cash from my previous startup. Had an incredible time with the smartest people I've ever met. Made friends for life. Opened up countless opportunities. Be careful taking advice from people who haven't walked your path.
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Often when GPT-5 gives me an answer I don't think is quite right I copy it over to Claude (Opus 4.1) and ask it to review it for me. GPT-5 has a real tendency to "over-analyze" things and Claude is much better at being practical and clear. This makes Claude significantly more
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@alistairmcleay a lot of things slightly worth sharing, but i try to tweet at most 1-3 times a day any posts i've had that i would say were 'actually good' just popped instantly into my mind out of nowhere
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