Meri Nova

ML /AI engineer - Technical Founder 📍 SF

[Meri Nova @intelligentle__]

I didn’t have STEM background.
I didn’t know what pip install was.
Heck, I didn’t speak a word of English.
I grew up with my grandma in the rural part of Kyrgyzstan.
My first job was selling potatoes and onions on a sidewalk at a local bazar in Bishkek.

Now, I live in San Francisco.
Every day, I meet the smartest and the most Influential people in Tech.
My self-doubt and imposter syndrome have never been this high.
99% of the time, I am the dumbest person in the room.

This slowly was getting under my skin.
It was making me feel small and insignificant.
I wouldn’t ask questions because I didn’t want to sound foolish. This made me stuck in one place.

Until I realized, if I keep being quiet, I won’t ever grow and learn.
So now, the first thing I do when I wake up is leetcode problems.
I go to deeply technical meetups.
I make friends with excellent engineers and scientists.
And I am finally okay with looking like a fool and learning as much as I can. As fearlessly as I can.

This is a reminder, to never let your environment dictate how you should feel about yourself.

Instead use it as a source of inspiration to propel you forward.

#leetcode #adhd #datascience #motivation #inspiration #impostersyndrome

[Meri Nova @intelligentle__]

@haithehuman Second that. Ai should democratize access to wealth.
Not the other way around .

Love your initiative on 15% back

[Meri Nova @intelligentle__]

@ArthurMacwaters this is hands-down the best way to raise shareholder value

[Meri Nova @intelligentle__]

@bryan_johnson @haithehuman tag Leo pls. this is our next dose.

[Meri Nova @intelligentle__]

@calcsam the pie is too big and its growing.

This is how healthy competition looks like.

HOW was the Conference???

[Meri Nova @intelligentle__]

@jxnlco This is hilarious

[Steve Yegge @Steve_Yegge]

I just released Beads, a drop-in cognitive upgrade for your coding agent of choice. https://t.co/d94hykIk7y

In a nutshell, it is a magical 4-dimensional graph-based git-backed fairy-dusted issue-tracker database, designed to let coding agents track all your work and never get lost again. Beads replaces that disgusting pile of half-eaten markdown files in your plans/ directory. You know you have one.

Install the Beads binary, tell your agent in https://t.co/q9aIg3VyQZ to stop using Markdown and run `bd quickstart`, and your agents will spontaneously get better at everything, particularly long-horizon planning and keeping track of newly discovered work.

If you are looking for a long-ass but occasionally funny article about how I discovered it while burning a 350k line code base to the ground: https://t.co/DQ0ZZIJhRT

Or you can, you know, just start using it. It's MIT-licensed, written in Go, and super lightweight and portable. Let me know how you like it.

Enjoy!

[Meri Nova @intelligentle__]

@benhylak Ben, dude. This was an insightful read.

Evals are becoming so meta.

You mentioned you have trained models that “pluck” those edge cases.

Can you elaborate more?
And how can we define what is “bad” to look out for?

[swyx 🔜 @aiDotEngineer @swyx]

Claude Code: no evals

[well known code agent company]: no evals

[well known code agent company 2]: kinda halfassed evals

[leading vibe coding company]: no evals

[ceo of company selling you evals]: mmmmm yess all my top customers do evals, you should do evals

[vc's in love with ceo of evals company]: mmmmm yes all my top founders do evals, must do evals

(NOTE: i -do- also think that evals are impt, but the eval pilled ai engineers have also noticed that it is not a strict requirement for success and, at least for 0-to-1 stage, may even be anticorrelated, think thru why)

[Meri Nova @intelligentle__]

@AlexReibman @X Enjoyed the read. But was the announcement a satirical joke? Or you actually releasing evals 😭

[Meri Nova @intelligentle__]

@haithehuman Dude, I thought I was being more X here 😂

[Meri Nova @intelligentle__]

I'd rather have a great team than a great product.
The latter will always follow if you have the right people.

[Meri Nova @intelligentle__]

@calcsam LOVE THISSSSS.

[Meri Nova @intelligentle__]

@JamesEbringer M

[Meri Nova @intelligentle__]

@haithehuman @braintrustdata @aiDotEngineer vuaahahahah

[Meri Nova @intelligentle__]

@dzhng a browser agent insteaad ?

[Meri Nova @intelligentle__]

- create custom evals
- implement guardrails
- have a human in a loop
- write tests before code
- ditch Streamlit, learn Typescript

And you are golden, baby.

#AIengineer

[Meri Nova @intelligentle__]

Please, stop building RAG projects!

If you want to succeed as an AI engineer, focus on this instead:

- solve a real problem
- build a simple agent
- scrape the web
- retrieve your data
- call another API

[Meri Nova @intelligentle__]

@haithehuman This will be huge

[Meri Nova @intelligentle__]

@tunguz You confused everyone here 😂