Jason Knight

You are what you eat!

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Former Tesla AI Chief Andrej Karpathy just broke down exactly how Musk engineers a company to win the AI arms race.

It starts with one absolute mandate.

Karpathy: “Keep a small, strong, highly technical team. No middle management that is kind of like non-technical.”

At most legacy companies, teams grow by default.

Headcount becomes a status symbol.

Layers of management accumulate between the CEO and the code until the CEO has no idea what the code is doing.

Musk runs the exact opposite playbook.

Karpathy: “Elon was always like a force against growth.”

Because every layer you add is a filter between leadership and reality.

And in the AI arms race, losing contact with reality is how you lose.

Karpathy: “If the team is small and strong, then engineers and the code are the source of truth.”

Not the VP. Not the project manager. Not the deck.

The code itself.

When Musk talks directly to engineers, he’s looking for one thing.

The bottleneck.

If an engineer says they need more GPUs, Musk doesn’t ask for a budget proposal.

Karpathy: “Someone dials the phone and he’s just like, ‘Okay, double the cluster right now. Let’s have a meeting tomorrow sending daily updates until the cluster is twice the size.’”

When procurement says NVIDIA needs six months to deliver the hardware, Musk doesn’t accept the constraint.

Karpathy: “Then you get a rise of an eyebrow. And then he’s like, ‘Okay, I want to talk to Jensen.’”

The bureaucracy says six months.

Musk calls the CEO of NVIDIA.

The constraint disappears.

Karpathy: “Elon is very friendly to by default getting rid of low performers.”

Not because he’s ruthless.

Because he’s paying attention to what’s actually happening in the world.

The nations and companies that move fastest will determine what the next era of human civilization looks like.

That is not a drill.

You cannot win that race with a workforce optimized for comfort and a procurement process optimized for caution.

That’s not a management style.

That’s the organizational architecture of a company that actually understands the moment it’s operating in.

[Jason Knight @KnightRotan]

@viber0x @RitaResearching @ThrillaRilla369 I agree.. we spend 2 hours in the kitchen every evening as a family cooking, eating, and cleaning up

[Jason Knight @KnightRotan]

@allenholub Sad to see u go. Hope u come back soon.

[Jason Knight @KnightRotan]

@ItsLeannna What is the average sentence for a man who beat up his girlfriend?

[Jason Knight @KnightRotan]

@JBHubbard11 @TheUpTempoPod Gus would have never taken the timeout.. but Auburn pushed him out because they had Can Newton.. one of the greatest college players ever. Maybe the greatest and since then they think they should compete for the natty

[Jason Knight @KnightRotan]

@JaxStateBB Great boys them Cash Boys! 💰💸💵

[Jax State Baseball @JaxStateBB]

Best Brother Duo in Baseball
Matthew Cash 🤝🏼 Steven Cash

After 3:
Jax State 4
Ga Tech 0

#C2E
#staycocky

[Jason Knight @KnightRotan]

@JBHubbard11 @JayGTate @CoachHughFreeze They hired him because he was an elite play caller

[Jason Knight @KnightRotan]

@JBHubbard11 @ITATJason Nope

[Jason Knight @KnightRotan]

@agileklzkittens I can see the benefits… my agile projects have issues with architecture, SDLC, and CI issues that slow down the ability to deliver functional software

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

Traces of Texas reader Kat Hagen recently went on an "epic" road trip that saw stops at many abandoned/forgotten Texas places, including this gas station in Rotan, Texas. It appears that it might have been owned by a man named Jack Allen. I love the colors and the composition and, of course, the idea that this was somebody's dream at one point --- that there was a grand opening when the man who created it was certainly proud and all of his friends came by to wish him well and maybe at the end of that first day he sat out with a cold beer and smiled to himself at his accomplishment. And why not? He had joined the ranks of entrepreneurs everywhere, the dreamer class, and there's self-satisfaction in that.

If anybody knows anything about this particular station, please fill us in.

Thank you, Kat. Well seen!

[StraightSavage80 @RealSavage80]

Biden supporters watching the debate #TheRealDebate #Debates2024 #debate

[Jason Knight @KnightRotan]

@champ2times I think he does some of this stuff on purpose… keeps him out if the “bro country”group

[Jason Knight @KnightRotan]

@champ2times @Ikeem_16_Means I wonder what the ratings are for that game.. but they higher than any men’s game in the tournament

[Jason Knight @KnightRotan]

@PrepBaseballAL @JaxStateBB @mcash_2 @bibb_co There are not 28 better ball players in the State of Alabama.... nope

[Jason Knight @KnightRotan]

@JBHubbard11 Gonna be sick once u add ur graphics

[Jason Knight @KnightRotan]

@champ2times I am thinking they don't have anyone already lined up... news outlets gonna post the top 5 candidates by EOD

[Jason Knight @KnightRotan]

@JBHubbard11 It was time, 72 years old. Time to spend the remaining years with friends, family, and them grandkids. Noting left to prove. He was the best to ever do it.

[Jason Knight @KnightRotan]

@allenholub @lsoares Agree.. Sprint Goals are usually defined after the team has committed user stories to the Sprint. Then they write the goal and publish to management