Verdi

ai engineering @owner. prev founder. studying ML @harvard. I love croissants, neural nets, distributed systems, sales, and to compete. 🇫🇷🇺🇸🇨🇩

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This is @airbnb's Lighthouse score.

Stop being stupid optimizing yours to 99 and focus on serving a standout experience to your users instead.

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@SaidAitmbarek that’s why most highly successful entrepreneurs can give psycho vibes at times because you can’t be normal to endure all the pressure + rejection and show up everyday for more

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@travisstreet_ @vvarrdi not kidding!

i worked on this problem in 2022-2023 (style adherence) but i needed massive amounts of data to continue improving the model and that was around the time Elon bought twitter and killed the affordable dev api tier so I couldn’t continue

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@MichaelScottBlu yeaaa same. great to see familiar faces :)

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i just came to say i loooove working on ml problems 🥰 it's hard but so fun and rewarding.

who knew deep learning was the mandate of heaven for lovers of math and computing.

i should've discovered that when i was 12 yo instead of lame old html

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@vvarrdi @travisstreet_ prompting can't fix it but LoRa finetuning can if you pair it with a RAG dataset of that user's own tweets for in-context style mimicking

the hardest part though is intent/strategy of message with no hallucination

it's a solvable~ish problem

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@rob_mcrobberson damn rob. how you gonna name and shame your own mom? 😭

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@theroborourke what’s the old adage again? don’t do as a say but do as I do.

better to watch behavior and copy rather listing to advice which ppl are notorious bad at contextualizing

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@vaibhaw_vipul that’s why you hire/partner up to complement weaknesses.

strong engineering founder? cool but you better hire a designer very quickly

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@rihntv one guy was early employee at Airbnb when it was less than 500 people

as of 2025 that guy was worth $50m and I don’t think he’s bitter about his fortune

it’s more about the company than corporate life as a whole tbh

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@zairalaraib_ i think your classmate is just disconnected from the professional working world

if they have interned somewhere there’s no way they wouldn’t know

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@irbaazkadri @monkeytypefan1 watch.

next wave of innovation the future kings of the hills might be the robotics bros and therefore how the VCs tweet will follow suit in hopes to get allocation

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@irbaazkadri @monkeytypefan1 no the truth is ai labs are the king of hills these days and thought leadership from ai researchers/engineers follows

also for some people deep in the work this is natural way to think and communicate

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@AnnieLiao_2000 it’s funnels all the way down to babies

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there's never been a better time in history to be an original writer

if everyone is using ai to write their copy, you're insanely differentiated just by not

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@audacious_amara insider info is the only if they aren’t publicly shared on the internet anywhere

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@vikpai 9000 IQ move

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@prasenx to be alive is to have risk. guaranteed safely only exists in dreams or in death

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@sarahcat21 not tracking what you’re saying. shocked in what sense?

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@KayaHickin or rather have be less dense and consumable

some papers i have to translate with AI otherwise im lost

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@sandislonjsak i think the more accurate analogy is the distribution curve got deeper

we’ve always had mostly bad software with 10% good and 1% exceptional

that distribution hasn’t changed so we’re drowning in the noise of the 10x increase in bad software