Baran Atas

@trytalp. Simulating human intent.

[Baran Atas @baranatas]

Looking for a Research Lead to build with us in SF @trytalp.

The dirty secret in AI simulation right now is that almost everyone is selling theater. Clean demos, zero proof. Nobody has published real benchmarks, confidence intervals, or calibration against actual human behavior. The team that turns this from vibes into an actual science wins the category.

What I'm looking for:

1) You know what’s actually happening under the hood. You didn't just pick up ML from Twitter threads or high-level APIs. You respect sound statistics, live in PyTorch/JAX, and have real intuition for how models break at the edges.

2) You despise fake progress. If an experiment shows a 5% bump, your first instinct isn’t to celebrate—it’s to hunt down the eval leakage or sampling bias. You’d rather kill your own favorite idea than ship a hallucinated win.

3) You care about production, not paper count. Academic rigor matters to us, but pure ivory-tower research is boring. What counts is whether the system survives contact with messy enterprise data.

4) Extreme autonomy. You don’t wait around for someone to write you a ticket. You look at an ambiguous problem, figure out what question actually matters, and go get the answer.

5) You raise the bar for everyone around you. You’ve led technical work before, you have taste in talent, and you know how to build a culture where sloppy work has nowhere to hide.

Hybrid in SF · $200k–$300k + real equity (raised $2.2M, backed by Formus, Sunshine Lake, Aito vc, a16z Scout Fund).

If you want to take a real swing at this, shoot me a DM or drop an email to [email protected] with a few things you’ve built or broken.

[Baran Atas @baranatas]

@scaling01 git pull is an adversarial attack now

[Baran Atas @baranatas]

@alexandr_wang one point of intelligence is getting very expensive

[Baran Atas @baranatas]

@AndrewCurran_ GDP.pdf. enterprise has been running this eval for a decade

[Baran Atas @baranatas]

reviewing the agent's explanation now takes longer than reviewing its code

[Baran Atas @baranatas]

@karpathy weekend hacks now ship faster than the lists they're based on

[Baran Atas @baranatas]

Demos are pass@k. Production is pass^k

[Baran Atas @baranatas]

@astrange Bro that’s @trytalp

[Baran Atas @baranatas]

@AndrewCurran_ AI movie in theaters before GTA 6

[Baran Atas @baranatas]

@emollick the second group asks for SOC 2 in the first five minutes

[Baran Atas @baranatas]

@scaling01 getting cited in an Ed Witten paper is the real benchmark

[Baran Atas @baranatas]

@kimmonismus AI startups are becoming each other's infrastructure

[Baran Atas @baranatas]

@AndrewCurran_ turns out even real photos have an AI problem now

[Baran Atas @baranatas]

I guess the @a16z team even arranged the weather for Tech Week.

[Baran Atas @baranatas]

If you’re in SF for Tech Week and need a break from 500-person panel crawls:

This Tuesday, @trytalp and @a1mobileAI are hosting drinks for founders & investors.

Great views, zero pitch decks, and yes, actual darts 🎯

Spots are strictly capped. Request an invite below 👇

https://t.co/HG1j3Ipfgc

[Baran Atas @baranatas]

Joke, right?

[Max Musgrave @maximusgrave]

Say hi to Sidehoe

The first AI assistant to manage your roster

Try it now: https://t.co/DKjE2XacJu

[Baran Atas @baranatas]

Give me 14days of battery and I’m in

[Valuetainment @valuetainment]

NEW: Apple is developing a screenless fitness tracker to rival Whoop.

[Baran Atas @baranatas]

@shipyardlondon @ElevenLabs @tavilyai @daytonaio @trytalp Let’s goo

[Baran Atas @baranatas]

We’re happy to support SHIPYARD as @trytalp 🚀

[SHIPYARD @shipyardlondon]

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT:

🚢 Registration is now open for the first SHIPYARD Hackathon

2–21 November, London. One theme: AI agents that make money.

What you get:

→ Credits from @ElevenLabs, @tavilyai, @daytonaio, @trytalp
→ Workshops from their teams
→ Cowork in Soho or build from anywhere
→ Live leaderboard: agents ranked by what they earn
→ Demo day at Encode Hub

What's up for grabs:

→ £10,000 prize pool
→ Special prizes from partners
→ Demos in front of VCs and press

📍 London and online
🗓️ 2–21 November
👥 40+ teams

Free to enter.

Link to sign up ↓

[Baran Atas @baranatas]

If you’re a 0.1% researcher based in Turkey, DM me. If we’re a fit, we’ll beat any offer on the table.