Josh McGrath
@j_mcgraph
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doing stuff in iterm @ openai
San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2012
i didn’t pull out my laptop in the waymo and it stopped, called me lazy and opened its door
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A coworker showed me a good text to sql tool for some of our big tables today and I’m expressing childlike joy
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Unironically this book contains most of what you need to know about being a good coworker
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Hours of coding can save you minutes of writing a marginally better codex prompt
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someone told me the like my tweets, little do they know they just killed my productivity for a week
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doing the meme
startup idea: anduril, but without the weeb hypercringe
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as a very AI pilled guy, I can confidently tell you that a carbon fiber e-bike on turbo mode will give you as much future shock as chatgippity
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If gradstudents knew what actually worked in training SOTA LLMs they would be so mad
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Ever since I was young I dreamed of optimally assigning compute to portions the RL process from first principles
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For 12 years this burned out husk of a building has sat empty due to SF’s screwed up rules & efforts to declare the building “historic.” An 8-story, 89 unit building is now moving forward using 2 state housing laws, including one I authored. This is exactly why we do this work.
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alias celsius="caffeinate -disu" should ship with macos as ad placement for the cracked engineers
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It is probably more important than ever to practice writing and communicating. The LLMs don't know what you are trying to say unless you can explain yourself.
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Proud to announce I’m launching a startup where we pair autistic founders and recruiting InMail writers and then we model merge them
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tbf, a very similar archetype is abundant in well manicured mba students
SF is great because you have 18 year olds who want to strategize and operate at a civilizational level but can’t drive a car or speak to women.
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sf is protestant in the sense that many people here think that grinding matters more than project selection
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as the agents get better microservices will get adapted to a world where each swe has a personal stack that only they understand. bus factor 1 will be less of a risk when code is cheap
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optional slide -- depending on whether audience ornery about definition of AGI It's common in conversations about AGI, for someone to get stuck on what the definition of AGI even is. There is a lot of nuance involved in finding a definition which is both unambiguous and
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Imagine having to tell your kids we used to laugh at greentext when they have high velocity AI video generation at their fingertips
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