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Co-founder & CEO @hackerrank
Joined April 2008
Everyone knows Yann LeCun as the "Godfather of AI." Here's the untold story of his resilience nobody talks about: 🧵 (1/6)
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Some things you just never get over. ❤️
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The biggest flex in this interview isn’t Satya talking about owning all OpenAI IP. It’s @dwarkesh_sp asking questions from a Google doc running on a Mac along with Dylan wearing Sony headphones in MSFT HQ! 🙂
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The lesson here isn't about being contrarian for its own sake. It's simpler: LeCun kept building when everyone said stop because he knew the technology worked. Focus on your skills and expertise. Keep building. Everything else follows.
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The field flips overnight. Papers that couldn't get accepted for 20 years become the foundation of modern AI. > He goes on to win the Turing Award > Every AI system now runs on that architecture > Face unlock, Siri, ChatGPT, self-driving cars > None of it would exist without
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LeCun keeps building for 20 years on tech everyone says is worthless. September 30, 2012: everything changes. > Alex Krizhevsky enters ImageNet competition > His neural network destroys everyone by impossible margins > The architecture is the same convolutional layers LeCun
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Computer vision community shuts him out completely. > conferences reject his papers > colleagues tell him to move on > "he should have gotten over it by now" Meanwhile, his CNNs are reading 10-20% of all checks in America and banks trust it with billions.
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@ylecun 1989: Young French researcher at Bell Labs publishes a paper on convolutional neural networks. The entire field thinks he's wasting his time. Context: in 1969, Minsky and Papert publish a book mathematically "proving" neural networks can't work. > Killed the field overnight >
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Everyone knows Yann LeCun as the "Godfather of AI." Here's the untold story of his resilience nobody talks about: 🧵 (1/6)
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If the PM who pulled ChatGPT's price out of thin air had picked $30/mo vs $20/mo, global AI spend would be $10B+ higher today.
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The most AI-native companies are the least AI-forward when it comes to hiring. For e.g., Anthropic's careers page literally used to say: "Please do not use AI assistance during the process." To be clear, I'm a big fan of Claude! A clip from my pod with @swyx @latentspacepod
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It looks like the only South Park episode that SV tech folks have watched is the underpants one. I have never seen anyone quote any other!
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"Let's do a hotfix in prod, we'll deal with it later"
🚨 Jaipur becomes India's first city to install air purifier on streets.
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I created the opensource library that all of your developers use and you still want me to reverse a linked list in the interview?
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A simple way to increase care in your product is to audit your error messages in the code and see how it can be made more helpful.
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A $500+ billion public company just adopted our next-gen hiring process, and candidates love them! The new hiring process is: • Fundamentals of software engineering without an AI assistant • A real-world task on a code repo with an AI assistant in a Cursor-like IDE experience
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When will all the products realize that using AI for summarization is the least useful, most hyped use-case?
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Congrats on the 2.0 version of yourself and the company!
I’m excited to launch today: 0xPPL 2.0 - something I’ve poured a lot of my life energy into. It’s a crypto superapp for all things onchain. I previously co-founded https://t.co/AJPvnlqV0U (worth $10B+), a B2B SaaS superapp. 0xPPL is backed by top angels including, @balajis
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