What we call talent is often just the combination of:
A deep need to win and high agency
The ability to learn fast from mistakes
A beginner’s mind that never disappears
The common thread: an unusually high rate of learning.
Today we're sharing our work on interaction models. A new class of model trained from scratch to handle real-time interaction natively, instead of gluing it onto a turn-based one.
https://t.co/MoS5s4cm60
@ashwathama U should share your journey , how u got through all of this i have just started in ml-dl space working for a startup will be inspiration for all of us out here , best wishes
We implemented @karpathy 's MicroGPT fully on FPGA fabric.
No GPU.
No PyTorch.
No CPU inference loop.
Just a transformer burned into hardware, generating 50,000+ tokens/sec.
The model is small, but the idea is not: inference does not have to live only in software 👇
AI engineers are printing money right now.
But only if they know this:
Most people are learning the wrong things.
Courses won’t get you hired.
Skills will.
Here’s what actually pays in 2026:
→ Building end-to-end LLM systems
(not just calling APIs)
→ Working with real data pipelines
(cleaning, chunking, retrieval)
→ RAG that actually works in production
(not tutorial-level demos)
→ Inference optimization
(vLLM, batching, caching)
→ Evaluations
(DeepEval, human feedback loops)
→ Agents (only where needed)
(LangGraph > hype wrappers)
What companies actually want:
→ Someone who can ship
(not just experiment)
→ Someone who understands tradeoffs
(latency vs cost vs quality)
→ Someone who can debug broken outputs
(not blame the model)
→ Someone who thinks in systems
(not prompts)
The gap is simple:
Most people are learning tools.
Few people are building systems.
That’s where the money is.
If you’re learning AI right now:
Stop collecting certificates.
Start shipping projects.
Everyone understands model training.
Very few understand inference.
But inference is the real bottleneck:
• Runs continuously
• Scales with users
• Drives most production cost
I’ll be breaking it down step by step over the next 2 weeks. 🧵