Faisal Fida

Passionate 🐍 developer

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The largest infrastructure buildout in human history isn't for war or space.

It's for AI. Compute spend is growing 3x *per year*.

The winners will be the wolves, not the dogs. The builders who treat AI as a partner.

If you build, this is your moment.

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@AnthropicAI was a 7-person startup with no product, no money, and a "stupid" idea.

They were up against OpenAI's $1B and top talent.
They just won the AI race. 🧵

Here’s how they did it and the 3 brutal lessons every builder needs to know.👇

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LESSON 3: Treat the AI as your user. 🤯

Claude Code wasn't a product. It was an internal tool built *for the model*, not just the human.

This "model-as-user" mindset is rare. It gave them a massive edge in tool use and agentic capabilities.

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@adcock_brett Great summary, @adcock_brett. This week felt like a turning point across foundational models, multimodal generation, and embodied AI.

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@Dorialexander Really interesting insights! Curriculum learning and careful scaling of training dimensions can significantly boost performance.

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@rryssf @probnstat Hybrid models might bring back recurrence in smarter ways, but for now, attention rules.

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@UrikaUri @probnstat The PDF is from a LaTeX typeset textbook, so there’s no official Overleaf template.

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@thinkingbets @probnstat It’s Chapter 8 from Jurafsky & Martin’s Speech and Language Processing, one of the classic textbooks in NLP. Stanford uses it in courses, but it’s a full-fledged, deeply respected resource.

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@codewithimanshu @probnstat Absolutely, They laid the foundation for everything from chatbots to speech recognition.

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@probnstat RNNs were the backbone of sequence modeling for processing text, speech, and time-series data one step at a time.

Now largely surpassed by Transformers, they taught AI how to think about context, memory, and flow in language.

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Founders should be the voice of their product. The people who build it understand it best, so don’t outsource marketing.

You don’t need an MBA to run a company. Use AI to learn the job, how to hire, or fundraise.

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7 years ago, @AravSrinivas was a PhD student at Berkeley.

Today, he’s the CEO of @perplexity_ai, a breakout AI company reshaping search, building a browser (@PerplexityComet), and partnering with @Moto (40M phones!) and @deutschetelekom.

Here's the key lessons from his journey:

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Failures can become strengths. Aravind missed computer science by 0.01 GPA but gained deep math and systems knowledge from electrical engineering.

Move faster than giants. When competing with big companies (Google, OpenAI), win by being faster, bolder, and more integrated.