Mert Barutcuoglu

Founding Growth Software Engineer @OpusClip / @AgentOpusAI
Prev SDE @AWS, @Splunk, @SAP
CS @UBC

[Mert Barutcuoglu @BarutcuogluMert]

@garrytan You should check out The Wild Robot. It hits the same philosophical notes

[Mert Barutcuoglu @BarutcuogluMert]

I just released an open-source, model-agnostic multi-agent deep research system!

It supports model plug-and-play via @LiteLLM , has built-in web search/extract with @tavilyai , summarization-based memory, and audit trails for every session.

Check it out: https://t.co/Cq7aEkVGDR

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@OpenAI @aiDotEngineer If you are short on time but want the key insights, here is my Medium article on it:
https://t.co/LS3HDcl8b7

[Mert Barutcuoglu @BarutcuogluMert]

Just watched @OpenAI’s full fine-tuning workshop at @aiDotEngineer, super insightful breakdown of SFT, DPO, and RFT! https://t.co/ILK7RBu7nN

If you're building with AI, this is a must-watch.

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“Being a multi-planet species greatly increases the probable lifespan of civilization, or consciousness, or intelligence (both biological and digital.”

@elonmusk’s @ycombinator AI Startup School talk with @garrytan just dropped!

https://t.co/y3y4SsvU7G

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Just got back from YC’s AI Startup School in SF. It was a true eye-opener. So many mind-blowing moments and inspiring people. I’m sharing my AI notes from some of the talks I got to attend and transcribe. Shoutout to @superwhisper:

Sam Altman (@sama): https://t.co/r0JTN1XOSG

Andrew Ng (@AndrewYNg): https://t.co/jSNtEt8pqv

François Chollet (@fchollet): https://t.co/k95YuN94RS

Huge thanks to @ycombinator for this amazing event!

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Wrapping up YC AI SUS with a fireside chat: @sriramk (Senior Policy Advisor for AI, The White House) joins @garrytan. Curious to learn about the policy side of AI!

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Awesome follow-up: @_mohansolo co-founder & CEO of @windsurf_ai talking “Winning the AI Tooling Race.” As a dev tools nerd, I’m super hyped for this presentation!

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Next up: @mntruell, co-founder & CEO of @cursor_ai , looking forward to this one!

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@karpathy @garrytan Thanks, Andrej! Your talk was incredibly inspiring, I’m already excited to go home and start building with the insights I gained from your presentation

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I didn’t have much experience with robotics, but Chelsea Finn’s talk was a real eye-opener.

Robots learning to fold laundry from demos, with a foundational model trained across homes and tasks, is mind-blowing.

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From @AndrewYNg today at @ycombinator AI SUS:

“One of the most important skills in the future is the ability to tell a computer exactly what you want.”

[Mert Barutcuoglu @BarutcuogluMert]

A great insight from Andrew Ng today at his presentation:

“Engineering is getting so fast that product management and deciding what to build is becoming the bottleneck.”

He even mentioned that a member of his team proposed a ratio of 1 PM to 0.5 engineers! (Though he added he’s not yet sure if he agrees with it.)

[Mert Barutcuoglu @BarutcuogluMert]

Everyone is now a programmer. Natural language is the new interface.

To unlock this, we must re-architect software so LLMs can understand and act , with protocols, structured docs, and GUI feedback loops.

We're just getting started.

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Just watched Andrej Karpathy’s(@karpathy) talk on "Software in the Era of AI" at @ycombinator AI Startup School and it’s packed with mind-expanding insights.

Here are my 5 biggest takeaways you missed🧵

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Karpathy advocates partial autonomy, not full agents.

Great AI products like Cursor let users slide between full control ↔ full automation.