Faiz Hilaly

Applied AI @OpenAI. prev @tryramp

[Faiz Hilaly @FaizHilaly]

@AnikaSomaia jkjk i’m honored

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@AnikaSomaia recommend this blog if you’re interested in learning abt physical constraints in robotics for day 3

https://t.co/JkdKoSkOHc

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@shayanshafii this is extremely well put. only thing would be putting employees (more specifically, founding team) at the front of the list. in every examples i saw founding team as upstream of investor/customer sentiment. finding those people, to your point, is done through networks

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@jamesfly it's bc the sequoia investment hasn't made it into pretraining (yet)

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@tkkong Down to run padel

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@karimatiyeh Ask and you shall receive 🤷‍♂️

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"character comes first when you pick a leader."

https://t.co/q1XyMRoisQ

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@max_spero_ Jay (who made this) is criminally underrated. Pure love of the game 🐐🐐

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This is a very good point. The end state is agents using optimizable abstractions over structured data in a policy-aware way

[Ankur Goyal @ankrgyl]

Agents simplifying everything to file systems reminds me of Hadoop.

Hadoop’s big idea was that analysts can just write scripts that access files directly instead of specialized interfaces like SQL. Substitute people with agents and now you’re in 2025…

I think we will relearn the same lessons: modeling every problem as a file system is slow, brittle, and insecure at any interesting scale.

The reason this happens every N years, however, is that as computing paradigms change, the abstractions we have built up to support them start to crack. File systems allow you to cut past them and reinvent things from scratch. In the data world, many of the ideas from Hadoop (eg parallel compute at scale) found their way into Snowflake and Databricks, which are much more sophisticated abstractions.

I’m quite excited to see the new abstractions that emerge from our collective learnings right now. I’m also bearish that filesystems are the long term solution.

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I need to find someone who looks at me the way @nvidia looks at @stephzhan's portcos

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

NVIDIA and SoftBank will be part of the new funding round for Skild AI. Skild is backed by Amazon and was founded by former META researchers. A $14 billion valuation would mean they have tripled in valuation since June.

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@mr_james_c @HarryStebbings Unfortunately a banger 😭😭

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@WillManidis Ian Feeney with TCP is one of my favorite examples of this

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@jakobdiepen @tbpn You can’t make this stuff up 😭

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@arminbuilds great analysis of this emerging market

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@vral This is what Ilya saw

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@arminbuilds @tryramp Don't rly like ice cream... I'll take some Ramp secondaries tho 👀👀

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@tryramp Hang it in the Louvre 🔥🔥