Things that feel cringe (until they start working):
- Posting on LinkedIn (until a stranger DMs you with a life changing opportunity)
- Cold DMs (until one turns into your biggest client)
- Filming yourself in public (until the video gets a million views)
- Hosting your first event (until 100 people show up)
- Speaking on stage (until someone tells you your talk changed their mind)
- Starting a newsletter (until it pays your rent)
- Introducing yourself to strangers (until one becomes your cofounder)
- Asking for referrals (until half your business comes from them)
- Pitching your friends on your startup (until one of them invests)
- Asking for a raise (until you get it)
Cringe is the entry price (most people never pay it)
We have dumped JAX/SGLang and rewritten the entire RL and inference stack from scratch in C/C++, which took some extra time.
Training (aka pre-training) is done. Lot of cleanup was needed on the SFT data to get that mostly right. Now, 4.8 is in RL and the evals are starting to climb. We will do a soft rollout to Bot users later this week and see how it goes.
Grok 4.8 will bear no resemblance to 4.7 (thankfully). It is not yet incredible, but, this time, the foundations are built right, so I expect it to evolve to be something special.
@just_tanyaaa jo maine experience kiya hai ki aisa nahi h ki kuch ho jayega fir sab set. apan ko lagaatar mehnat krte rehna hoga. success ke pahle v aur success ke baad v. in short life is a rat race. wisdom says to run your own race
@latentbrain_uc@cneuralnetwork i think now we should get comfortable with the idea that AI can code a lot better and they are going to improve only. So, we should build with AI but yeah make sure that you understand what's happening under the hood. My two cents
@SakshiML_20 I think it's not a good question to ask specially after the interview because it indicates lack of confidence plus it kind of forces the interviewer to remember all the negative aspects of the interview. Just my perspective.
The most underrated thing about doing a PhD:
Science doesn’t care where you went to school.
It doesn’t care about your GPA, your advisor’s reputation, your university ranking, or how many papers you’ve published.
It doesn’t care whether you’re at Stanford or a university nobody has heard of.
If your hypothesis is wrong, it’s wrong.
If your discovery is real, it’s real.
Of course, academia cares about all those things. Funding, connections, and prestige can determine who gets the opportunity to do research.
But nature doesn’t care about academic prestige.
You can impress a reviewer with your credentials. You can’t impress reality with your CV.
And that’s what I love most about science.
If we look, AI has now become amazingly good in programming and will continue to improve at exponential rate. Now, whether you realize it or not, but coding is no longer the moat. Knowledge, Understanding, Critical Thinking, Reasoning ability is going to be the moat
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