Going to leave you with this tonight:
The best thing you can do for yourself is actively increase your surface area for luck to hit you. Go outside, travel more, go to new cates, museums, events, take a new route home, go for hikes, see cities, countrysides, take your notebook, speak to people, ask questions, start businesses - go on more side quests. You can literally just do things, and the more you do, the more serendipity and synchronicity will find you.
POV: you built a robot dog in your bedroom. 🐶🤖
Meet Pupper, from @Stanford! We hooked it up to @GoogleAIStudio's Gemini Live API and the Gemini Robotics-ER model so it can actually understand and react to the world.
And you can even build it yourself!
🍓 Runs on a @Raspberry_Pi
🛠️ 100% open-source (hw & sw)
new grads often ask me what they should be doing so they don't fall behind in the ai space. there's a lot, but its honestly super manageable. become intimate with model internals. proof based linear algebra. non-convex optimization. this is stuff you could've done in undergrad. it definitely takes some time and work, but its doable. have taste, have opinions. train a small model, then train a big one. vLLM internals, tensor parallelism. hand roll kernels. cluster orchestration. do you have opinions on synthetic data? why don't you? SFT, PPO, you should know this. learn Triton. everyone is reproducing papers now so you need to be doing more. do you know the semi supply chain? where are the bottlenecks? hardware, man, hardware. your little gpu rig erector set in your basement isnt gonna cut it. build a cluster, a big one. pretrain a 800B model. now postrain it. serve it to millions of people. you should be able to beat deepseek on some benchmarks now. its a lot to take in but it all snowballs. this what job security looks like from now on. do you want to work in tech or not
I’ve been the licensed professional with a fancy degree, climbing the career ladder.
Great benefits, accommodating schedule, even freedom in the day-to-day.
💀If that’s you, listen closely:
If you have the will to create, don’t deny it.
Comfort will smoother you slowly and steal your soul. Never become comfortable. Build on the edge.
Golden handcuffs for most; you are not most. Take the leap. Believe in something.
There has never been a better time.
All the tools are available. Accessible.
We’re building more, too.
Being a founder is harder but you’ll never feel more alive.
Now go.
You’ve got this.
At Google I/O today?
Stop by the Gemma Playground and chat with our Gemma 4-powered Open Duck robot! 🤖🦆
Not on site? No problem! You can 3D print your own at home.
I just got my @EFDevcon ticket — paid for with ETH!
Next stop: Mumbai 🇮🇳 Join me at Devcon 8 from November 3–6, 2026 for four days of big ideas, technical depth, community, and the people building the future of open source technology.
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this is my biggest conviction bet
when you get out of the tech bubble it becomes clear that all your friends are tired of being chronically online, of dating online, of performative technological advancement.
they just want to meet people in a field, fuck, and get loose.