Monte Thakkar
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Building @joinrosebud ๐น | ex @curiotools @nftsalesbot @expedia @pillow
Los Angeles, CA
Joined July 2013
Really really really excited to continue building @joinrosebud and grow the team with the new $6m seed funding round! ๐ฅณ๐ท > Rosebud, an AI driven personal mentor. Rosebud combines state-of-of-the-art AI with cognitive science, powered by proprietary memory technology that
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The @ilyasut episode 0:00:00 โ Explaining model jaggedness 0:09:39 - Emotions and value functions 0:18:49 โ What are we scaling? 0:25:13 โ Why humans generalize better than models 0:35:45 โ Straight-shotting superintelligence 0:46:47 โ SSIโs model will learn from deployment
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As a fun Saturday vibe code project and following up on this tweet earlier, I hacked up an **llm-council** web app. It looks exactly like ChatGPT except each user query is 1) dispatched to multiple models on your council using OpenRouter, e.g. currently: "openai/gpt-5.1",
Iโm starting to get into a habit of reading everything (blogs, articles, book chapters,โฆ) with LLMs. Usually pass 1 is manual, then pass 2 โexplain/summarizeโ, pass 3 Q&A. I usually end up with a better/deeper understanding than if I moved on. Growing to among top use cases. On
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I spent the last 60 days working at Cursor. It's been one of the most thrilling phases of my professional life. There's a lot of mystique around the company. Over the last two months, some things matched my expectations; many did not. I wrote an essay for @joincolossus
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Sixty days with the AI coding decacorn
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Sharing an interesting recent conversation on AI's impact on the economy. AI has been compared to various historical precedents: electricity, industrial revolution, etc., I think the strongest analogy is that of AI as a new computing paradigm (Software 2.0) because both are
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I took delivery of a beautiful new shiny HW4 Tesla Model X today, so I immediately took it out for an FSD test drive, a bit like I used to do almost daily for 5 years. Basically... I'm amazed - it drives really, really well, smooth, confident, noticeably better than what I'm used
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Excited to release new repo: nanochat! (it's among the most unhinged I've written). Unlike my earlier similar repo nanoGPT which only covered pretraining, nanochat is a minimal, from scratch, full-stack training/inference pipeline of a simple ChatGPT clone in a single,
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Proud to be on the team that's on the cutting-edge of using AI for good. Love this initiative and excited to attract like minded folks that truly care about this stuff. This work is very important to ensure we use AI to process emotions and be a thought-partner in all the ways
We tested 21 AI models on 5 self-harm scenarios. The results were sobering. When we saw the recent news involving AI chatbots and teen suicides, we became deeply concerned. As LLMs are proliferating through every piece of software in the world, how can developers know the models
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"Combining human craftsmanship with AI tools to build better software." This is one of the best ways I've heard software engineering be described in the age of AI https://t.co/4fVIK3Px7J
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Combining human craftsmanship with AI tools to build better software.
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๐น ๐ช๐ฒ ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ $๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐น๐ฑโ๐ ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ ๐ท๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ป๐ฎ๐น Five years ago, @seandadashi and I realized the attention economy was doing more harm than goodโkeeping kids and adults glued to screens, chasing dopamine. As technologists, we
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๐งต The Next Frontier in AI: Interpretability I've been diving deep into AI interpretability and came across this fascinating paper by @ch402 on the building blocks of understanding AI systems. Here's what I learned. 1. Right now, AI systems are largely "black boxes." We've
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๐งต Neural Networks vs LLMs: I was curious about the difference between Neural Networks and Large Language Models (LLMs). After researching, here's what I learned: 1. Neural Networks: - Computing systems inspired by brain structure - Made of connected "neurons" in layers - Can
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๐งต Understanding AI's Evolution: A Timeline of Critical Research (2014-2024) I spent time looking into how we got to today's AI capabilities. Here's the key progression: - First breakthrough in deep learning (ImageNet) - Fundamental architecture innovation (Transformers) -
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It's official: the holidays are here โจ Sure that means joy, family, and cookies. But it also means to-do lists, chores, parties to attend, and... *deep breath* It's a lot, but @joinrosebud can help you clear your mind (and stay sane) through the holiday chaos by helping you...
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Journaling played a big part in shaping my life and recently I've been impressed by @joinrosebud which harnesses the power of AI to improve your mental health! Itโs kinda like having a therapist in your pocket. I had to bring @chrysb on to my show and we talked abt: ๐ช๐ผ
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This bot is โ ๏ธ (Nov 23rd, 2024) The new X API costs $200/month and I'm just not sure if this bot is worth that much to CT anymore. If you'd like to sponsor the API costs (for one or more months), please comment below. Thank you!
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Why is AI-powered journaling tool @joinrosebud better than the other guys? As co-founder @chrysb explains to @alexisohanian, the difference is human. Smarter prompt creation and the ability to customize both tone and style mean Rosebud knows how to talkโand *listen* โจ
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As someone who's been through the startup grind, I'm proud to announce @Initialized has officially added Rosebud as a benefit for portfolio companies. We don't talk about founder mental health enough. Forbes reported 81% of founders do not openly share their stress, fears, and
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