Galym Uteulin

Founder / building / experimenting,
ai eng advisor @bcapitalgroup
frmr @zenguard @Google @Amazon

[David Shapiro (L/0) @DaveShapi]

If you want to understand why I stepped back from AI discourse, the Dwarkesh virality is archetypal of everything wrong with it.

Actual cyber security experts have classified the OpenAI and Hugging Face incident as an epic security facepalm.

These morons literally just let it keep going. They didn't consult proper experts. It was an idiotic environment run by idiots.

There was no civilization. There were no zero day exploits. I mean, not other than the zero day of ML researcher hubris.

But people don't really care about reality. You people just want hyperbole and fantasy.

You all should get the heartburn and anxiety you deserve for being so gullible.

[Galym Uteulin @kainamer]

Who knew my love for Civ V and daily coding would wildly converge in this popular pseudo-sci piece from @dwarkesh_sp.

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes.

This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself.

All this happened while humans remained more-or-less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy.

I’ve spent the last three days reading through these reports and trying to understand exactly what happened.

Here is my attempt to tell the whole story in plain English:

https://t.co/Nb2un9oNJR

[Galym Uteulin @kainamer]

Early Whoop adopter. He has a point...

[Misha Glouberman @mishaglouberman]

I put eight years of Fitbit data into Claude. It spent a couple of hours analyzing everything, looking for correlations, etc.

What it found:

When I stay up late, I don't get as much sleep

[Galym Uteulin @kainamer]

@rubenhassid I call it AI haiku: https://t.co/qqRUzwlyVd

[Galym Uteulin @kainamer]

"and this matters more because", "and not for <the other reason>", "this is real, not <synonym of fake>" are the new "delves".

I call it "AI haiku" - there's a rigid structure, and this is real, not random.

And this matters more because all you read these days is AI content.

[Galym Uteulin @kainamer]

@gregisenberg Kid logistics is big.

[Galym Uteulin @kainamer]

Today, in practice, AI engineering is moving beyond coding. It’s overflowing into product management, design and customer discovery.

We are seeing the collapse of the multi step multi person work environment in real time.

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

New: A map of the most important skills in AI Engineering. https://t.co/VVkn1Dqp1N

[Galym Uteulin @kainamer]

@AndrewYNg Today, in practice, AI engineering is moving beyond coding. It’s overflowing into product management, design and customer discovery.

We are seeing the collapse of the multi step multi person work environment in real time.

[Galym Uteulin @kainamer]

It’s a matter of cost and capability.

Open weight models are the fix to vendor lock in. If it needs tuning, that’s just implementation / deployment part of the process.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A year ago lots of startups were tuning open weight models. Then the consensus became that this was a waste of time, because the model companies' next versions would surpass them a couple months later. Now tuning open weight models seems to be back.

[Galym Uteulin @kainamer]

We are still in the installation phase of AI. We are still early.

[Galym Uteulin @kainamer]

"and this matters more because", "and not for <the other reason>", "this is real, not <synonym of fake>" are the new "delves".

I call it "AI haiku" - there's a rigid structure, and this is real, not random.

And this matters more because all you read these days is AI content.

[Galym Uteulin @kainamer]

@arsenfounder @sama Keep building man, great story!

[Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman]

Now every child, no matter where they are, can have access to a top-tier tutor for every subject.

The compounding benefits from this alone will be felt decades into the future.

[Galym Uteulin @kainamer]

@deedydas I was honestly contemplating to build one myself over the weekend.

[Galym Uteulin @kainamer]

@karpathy @simonw Respect to @simonw🚀, amazing blog and similar tweets!

[Galym Uteulin @kainamer]

@brookeab No guardrails present.

[Galym Uteulin @kainamer]

When it comes to image and video AI generators, people don’t realize just how little guardrailing is employed (and effective) there.

[brooke @brookeab]

no joke, can anything legally be done about this

[Galym Uteulin @kainamer]

I’m using earplugs and eye covers regularly, which directly correlates with my sleep quality.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

My sleep scores during recent travel were in the 90s. Now back in SF I am consistently back down to 70s, 80s.

I am increasingly convinced that this is due to traffic noise from a nearby road/intersection where I live - every ~10min, a car, truck, bus, or motorcycle with a very loud engine passes by (some are 10X louder than others). In the later less deep stages of sleep, it is much easier to wake and then much harder to go back to sleep.

More generally I think noise pollution (esp early hours) come at a huge societal cost that is not correctly accounted for. E.g. I wouldn't be too surprised if a single motorcycle riding through a neighborhood at 6am creates millions of dollars in damages in the form of hundreds - thousands of people who are more groggy, more moody, less creative, less energetic for the whole day, and more sick in the long term (cardiovascular, metabolic, cognitive). And I think that many people, like me, might not be aware that this happening for a long time because 1) they don't measure their sleep carefully, and 2) your brain isn't fully conscious when waking and isn't able to make a lasting note / association in that state. I really wish future versions of Whoop (or Oura or etc.) would explicitly track and correlate noise to sleep, and raise this to the population.

It's not just traffic, e.g. in SF, as a I recently found out, it is ok by law to begin arbitrarily loud road work or construction starting 7am. Same for leaf blowers and a number of other ways of getting up to 100dB.

I ran a few Deep Research sessions and a number of studies that have tried to isolate noise and show depressing outcomes for cohorts of people who sleep in noisy environments, with increased risk across all of mental health (e.g. depression, bipolar disorders, Alzheimer's incidence) but also a lot more broadly, e.g. cardiovascular disease, diabetes.

Anyway, it took me a while to notice and after (unsuccessfully) trying a number of mitigations I am moving somewhere quiet. But from what I've seen this is a major public health issue with little awareness and with incorrect accounting by the government.

[Galym Uteulin @kainamer]

Having a fixer’s high - replaced a broken wheel on my 28” Samsonite suitcase.

#fixer #travel #samsonite

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[Galym Uteulin @kainamer]

🧵 on who works encryption/privacy in AI.

[clem 🤗 @ClementDelangue]

Who’s working on AI encryption and privacy? Very important topic in my opinion!