Whoever invented “Member of Technical Staff” was a genius.
It filters out Staff/Principal title-maxxers, protects engineering and research from corporate ladder brain, and leaves recruiters staring at LinkedIn like: “Is this person L4 or L7?”
MTS is the best title. Happy to be MTS.
Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
ANDREJ KARPATHY COULD HAVE CHARGED $2,000 FOR THIS COURSE.
He put it on YouTube.
The full training stack. Tokenization. Neural network internals. Hallucinations. Tool use. Reinforcement learning. RLHF. DeepSeek. AlphaGo.
3 hours of the most comprehensive LLM education that exists anywhere at any price.
Not how to use the tools.
How the entire system was built from the ground up and why it behaves the way it does.
The engineers who understand this build things the ones who only use the tools cannot even conceive of.
The gap between those two groups is not 3 hours.
It is everything those 3 hours quietly unlock for the rest of your career.