Shawn Ayala

[Shawn Ayala @gangstafun]

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[Shawn Ayala @gangstafun]

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[Shawn Ayala @gangstafun]

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[Shawn Ayala @gangstafun]

@henrythe9ths AI Guide

[Henry Shi @henrythe9ths]

There's a shocking fact about AI that nobody tells you: You can catch up to the public AI research frontier in just 2 weeks. Yes, really.

I've built a $150M annual revenue startup over the last 8 years and If I were to start a company today, I’d drop everything and go all-in on AI.

But like many busy software builders, I felt lost—overwhelmed by the noisy, crowded and fast-moving modern AI landscape. And I wasn’t alone.

So I spent my entire holiday diving deep into AI research—reading 30+ papers, watching hours of lectures, analyzing trends, and catching up to the research frontier.

✨ Here’s what I learned:
- You don’t need months (or years) to catch up.
- You don’t need a PhD or decades of ML experience.
- You need fewer than 20 papers and 2 weeks to understand the major breakthroughs shaping AI today.

It's because the technology is extremely nascent and most techniques that came before are no longer relevant:
- ChatGPT is barely 2 years old and Transformers are only 7 years old.
- Most game-changing discoveries happened within the last 4 years, driven by a few breakthrough ideas, scaling laws, and efficient matrix multiplication.

The biggest secret?
Many groundbreaking AI papers with thousands of citations are surprisingly simple and applied, like adding "let's think step by step" to the prompt, or simply asking the LLM over and over again to improve its answer (Self-Refine).

I realized there are tons of founders and builders in the same boat—wanting to dive deeper into AI but unsure where to start.

I've created an essential AI Guide that helped me catch up, in just 2 weeks, to the frontier of public AI research to figure out where the next opportunities and gaps were:
- Curated list of only the most important papers
- Simple explanations of key concepts
- Clear pathway to understanding the frontier of modern AI

It’s perfect for:
- Founders expanding into AI
- Builders wanting to innovate at the frontier of AI
- Investors looking to separate the signal from the noise

👇 Want the full guide?
- Like and Share this post
- Comment "AI Guide"
- I'll send you the complete guide

(ps, I’m also teaming up with @VishalVasishth, co-founder of @obviousvc with @ev (focused on large-scale societal impact companies like Twitter, Medium, Beyond Meat), to host a small meetup to discuss what's working and needs to be solved in the AI stack in SF. Message me if you're interested)

[Shawn Ayala @gangstafun]

@grindfacetv @MrColionNoir

[Shawn Ayala @gangstafun]

#Xbox_BarbieTheMovieSweepstakes

[XBOX @XBOX]

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[Not Elon Musk @ElonMuskAOC]

I have a proposal for Mr. Zuckerberg…

Winner of our fight gets ownership of the other persons social media platform for 24 HOURS.

You win, you get Twitter.
I win, I get Meta.

Let me know.

Best,
Elon “your wife drives a Tesla” Musk

[Shawn Ayala @gangstafun]

@Skankatron Just me and my dad

[Shawn Ayala @gangstafun]

@PoisonedApple84 Ohh I know, you could always try one date. Doesn’t have to go further than that.

[Shawn Ayala @gangstafun]

@PoisonedApple84 I don’t think there is an appropriate age gap at our age. As long as you weren’t grooming him, it’s acceptable.

[Shawn Ayala @gangstafun]

@PoisonedApple84 Hmm. Finally, something I haven’t done! I may need to borrow that!

[Shawn Ayala @gangstafun]

@PoisonedApple84 Seems accurate. Looks like a younger me too lol.

[Shawn Ayala @gangstafun]

@PoisonedApple84 😂

[Shawn Ayala @gangstafun]

@PoisonedApple84 😂😂 I give the warning. Beware if you start swiping! Lol

[Shawn Ayala @gangstafun]

@PoisonedApple84 Yikes

[Shawn Ayala @gangstafun]

@PoisonedApple84 🙋🏼‍♂️😂

[Shawn Ayala @gangstafun]

@PoisonedApple84 😔

[Shawn Ayala @gangstafun]

@PoisonedApple84 Good, I hope there’s more to follow!