beepee

Love building products | Recsys | Into Machine learning and AI | Often gives unsolicited opinions | ExMeta

[beepee @reachbp]

My thesis -
1) Few years back there were two different kinds of teams. Teams which owned the problem(integrity), teams which owned the surface(WhatsApp, fb, messenger). There is a central integrity org which handled hate speech, spam, misinfo, account takeovers as a “problem” area that other orgs like IG, Messenger partnered heavily with. A hit to a surface team, doesn’t necessarily equate a hit to problem investment. It’s possible there was restructuring - resources moved in core-integrity while surface teams took a hit.

2) the problem of integrity itself has become less important every since Musk bought twitter. We moved from a world where repeat offenses on social media platform by a bad actor can get you banned to a world where a lot of these are tolerated. You see a big platform like Twitter thrive despite the spam, content integrity problems it, that it makes little sense for big tech to fight for the problem. Like the RoI is pretty less.

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@suvsh This was a newly opened T&T. It’s a cult favorite among Asians

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@VicVijayakumar How? Do you have slack integrated with your agents

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Never bet against @ylecun

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

⚠️⚠️⚠️i don’t think most people understand the implications of the mood shift below, so I will spell them out. they are serious, and eventually will affect the global economy.

when a serious coder as hardcore AI-philic as GeoHotz dives deep into all the latest coding models and winds up echoing what I have been saying about the code turning out slop—and how that is going to mess over big companies—the whole genAI movement is a deadman walking.

‘cause coding was the tentpole. and its net impact may actually be net negative—and certainly not big enough to justify the massive investments.

once people figure that out, the bubble will pop.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

⚠️⚠️⚠️i don’t think most people understand the implications of the mood shift below, so I will spell them out. they are serious, and eventually will affect the global economy.

when a serious coder as hardcore AI-philic as GeoHotz dives deep into all the latest coding models and winds up echoing what I have been saying about the code turning out slop—and how that is going to mess over big companies—the whole genAI movement is a deadman walking.

‘cause coding was the tentpole. and its net impact may actually be net negative—and certainly not big enough to justify the massive investments.

once people figure that out, the bubble will pop.

[beepee @reachbp]

@kevinrschultz Unfortunately, the current state of big tech doesn’t really incentivize courage. A lot of organizations increasingly prefer people who take orders and execute, rather than people who challenge direction, take bold bets, or think independently.

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@jeremybernier It took 4 yrs and 5 layoffs for someone to speak up about a core problem at Meta. Kudos!

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One of the very few voices in tech to stand up for legal immigration.

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

The new White House policy requiring green card applicants to apply from outside the US is a capricious attack on legal immigration. It will hurt families, leave us with fewer doctors, teachers and scientists, and hurt American competitiveness in AI.

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

The new White House policy requiring green card applicants to apply from outside the US is a capricious attack on legal immigration. It will hurt families, leave us with fewer doctors, teachers and scientists, and hurt American competitiveness in AI.

[beepee @reachbp]

Unfortunately this was not the meta that I was part of. I even encouraged some of my close family members to join Meta last year. But it’s not surprising to know this about ads. I hope @natfriedman @alexandr_wang read this and are able to influence the culture. The good thing is - they are moving towards an AI based perf culture, and AI if integrated into workchat, zoom meeting notes can indeed very accurately spot sand bagging, context hoarding and generally political moves.

[Jack Appleby @jappleby]

So everyone's getting laid off again.

If you were just laid off from your job, I've got a little unconventional advice for ya:

Do not start looking for a job the next day, or even the next week. And if you can afford it? Take an entire month off.

Now, listen—I know we're all in different financial situations, and an incredibly significant portion of our country lives paycheck to paycheck. But I'm also incredibly sure you're wildly stressed out, work too much, maybe even lost a bit of yourself in the grind. You've gotta give yourself a moment.

When I went through my first lay-off, I immediately started looking for jobs, and luckily got interviews the very same week. Anddd I was not emotionally ready, and my exhaustion showed, and I even ghosted some interview opportunities. I was totally fried and badly needed a break.

Most lay-offs come with some form of severance & paid out vacation days. I beg you, take that time for yourself. Catch up on sleep. See your kids. Pick up a hobby. Go to the gym. Be a person who doesn't dream of labor. You'll be 1000x healthier for it, have more clarity with what you're looking for, and be far more likely to land the next gig.

Keep in mind: you will never have this much time again. The second you get your next job, it's back to 8-10 hour days. I know NOT having a job can be stressful, but you've gotta take as much time as you can.

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@jappleby This. I wish everyone reads this.

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@_mohansolo @FeinbergVlad Vlad also went to Harker with you?

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

The most female-led product org in tech right now:

Chief Product Officer: Ami Vora
Claude Code/Cowork Head of Product: Cat Wu
Claude Code/Cowork Head of Eng: Fiona Fung
Claude Platform Head of Product: Angela Jiang
Claude Platform Head of Eng: Katelyn Lesse
Research Head of Product: Dianne Penn
President: Daniela Amodei

(Also, the fastest-growing company in history)

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@ylecun @aakashgupta @boztank Was there place for JEPA/World models to co-exist along with LLM's at Meta? or was it getting defunded

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@fchollet Almost fell for it

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@nikunj Why doesn’t this work in big tech hiring? Being someone who cares can land you in trouble.

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@lennysan Reduce exposure from baby monitor? Did they ask you to not use the baby monitor?

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@pritopian @nikunj Mylapore >> idly express. The vibe takes you back to Chennai