Jake Stevens
@stake_jevens
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Professional button presser. Donut connoisseur. building @luminal_ai (YC S25)
escaping the perma underclass
Joined February 2021
What goes on in an engineer’s brain when you ask, “Hello, how are you?”
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Many smart people act hyper rationally as a way to signal maturity.. which is ironically a form of immaturity
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Congrats to @luminal_ai on their $5.3M seed! Luminal is building an integrated high-performance compiler + inference cloud that squeezes full performance out of modern chips — so AI teams can hit speed-of-light inference without touching CUDA. https://t.co/gxFbM1qe5u
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Obligatory TechCrunch article to announce our seed round. Back to work 🫡
Luminal raises $5.3 million to build a better GPU code framework
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The fellas go to build-a-bear after a successful Q4
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I truly don’t think I’ve ever in my life clicked on an internet ad intentionally
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Post-YC reality check: - Investors funded the vision - Customers want practical solutions - Those two things rarely align - Having the courage to pivot anyway Even after you've "made it" through the accelerator.
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@ChrisMurphyCT You're being played by people who want regulatory capture. They are scaring everyone with dubious studies so that open source models are regulated out of existence.
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“Hold on I’m going through the metal scanner. Gonna lose you for a second”
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Normies will never know the thrill of taking a customer call while going through the TSA checkpoint
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before i quit my job i used to dread mondays. monday meant resuming the political war with two-faced liars over which team will own the customer widget on the opportunity page in salesforce. now i love mondays. happy monday everyone. it's going to be a great week
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Last night we rolled out the red carpet for a special premiere and a first-ever look at the future of human computing. We took over the Presidio theatre in SF, filled it with retro computers, and brought everything back to life for a full on immersive experience.
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The interface of the future is human. We’ve raised a $40M Series B from CRV, Scale, Sequoia, and YC to teach machines the art of being human, so that using a computer feels like talking to a friend or a coworker. And today, I’m excited for y’all to meet the PALs: a new
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You’d solve a lot of your own problems if you really believed that you deserve good things
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“Total strangers to dilute you” the average VC bro is 10x worse and pester-some than the worst angel I’ve met VCs think they’re God’s gift 😂
For the record: yes, if you’re allowing total strangers to dilute you early and sit on the cap table for a potentially decade-long journey, you are cooked
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If you are bored you can always: - Build your own operating system - Build your own game engine - Build your database - Build your compiler - Build your virtual machine - Build your web server
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Zero downside. Virtually unlimited upside. Just apply. You can always apply again :)
The deadline to apply for the winter batch is tomorrow, November 10th, at 8pm PT! All you need is an idea: https://t.co/9hUZ0buEiU
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Want to work on a compiler too? Hmu
i finally got a job as a compiler engineer!! it took months of grinding, so i wrote a biiig post about how i recruited, what the interviews are like, etc. link in bio 🥰
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@RolandForTexas You are a taker, not a maker. All you’ve done your whole life is take from the makers of the world. The zero-sum mindset you have is at the root of so much evil. Once you realize that civilization is not zero-sum and that it is about making far more than one consumes, then it
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