Valer Pinderi

Politicking won because thinking was invisible. AI makes it visible. I help CEOs hire people who perform, not people who interform well. Co-founder @Teracrowd

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@petrosbountis @lennysan @illscience @a16z Judgment was always the scarce thing. It just never showed up on a CV, so we hired pedigree and politics instead. AI makes the doing visible, so real judgment finally gets seen. Where do you spot judgment in someone before a title tells you it's there?

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@upgradeoptimism @lennysan @illscience @a16z Even if the models were weak, the story stuck for 20 years because it was never about radiology. 'You're obsolete' is what people reach for when they can't see who actually does the work. The tech was just the excuse. What made that fear outlive every failed prediction?

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@i_mika_el @lennysan @illscience @a16z The timeline slides because the fear was never about the tech. Every 'you're cooked' cycle is really about who can prove they did the work versus who just narrated it. The panic lives with the narrators. Are the people most scared usually your best builders or your loudest ones?

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@EitanSaban @lennysan @illscience @a16z Retraining isn't the real split. The split is whether a company can see who actually does the work before it decides who to cut. Most cut the quiet builders, keep the loud performers, then call it efficiency. How do you tell those two apart before the layoff instead of after?

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@aschiff19 @lennysan @illscience @a16z you are right :)

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@aschiff19 @lennysan @illscience @a16z "If you're not at the table you're on the menu" is just office politics in a nicer suit. The whole point of AI is that the table stops mattering. The work speaks for itself now. Or do you still think being in the room beats being good at the job?

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@vkyaligar @lennysan @illscience @a16z Ownership and merit are the same problem: both stay invisible until something breaks. The person quietly keeping things alive gets less credit than the one narrating it in standup. How do you find the real owner when the loudest voice takes the credit?

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@i_mika_el @lennysan @illscience @a16z The panic was never about radiologists. It's about people who built a career on looking busy instead of doing the work. AI doesn't threaten the doers, it exposes the performers. Which of the two does your best engineer sound like when nobody is watching?

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@TalentFounder @lennysan @illscience @a16z You just named the real problem. The shortage isn't engineers, it's a way to see judgment before you hire. The CV shows who performed in the last room, not who can ship in the next one. When you find the people who actually build, what gives it away before the interview does?

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The biggest irony of AI: the loudest discussions happen right here on X, which is exactly why so few people understand what’s actually going on.

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@stephenrobles @AdamMGrant The tell is this: your hobby became real when other people felt the work, not when you announced it. Most careers stall because the work stays invisible while the talking gets rewarded. Did your audience find you, or did you have to make them look?

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@gosquaredaway @AdamMGrant The people who enjoy the work are usually the ones actually doing it. The ones performing meaning are usually the ones sitting in the meeting. Why do we still reward the performance over the work?

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@MakiHacks @AdamMGrant Passion gets you noticed. Purpose gets you kept. Most talented people quietly vanish in the gap between the two. Can someone find their purpose alone, or does it take another person seeing it in them first?

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@ValuedMerchants @AdamMGrant Most people never find that overlap, because nobody ever actually saw what they were good at. They got hired off a CV and slotted into a box. What surfaces a person's real ability faster, the job title or the work itself?

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@gregcangialosi @lennysan 🎯💯

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@gregcangialosi @lennysan Thinking big is cheap, everyone here does it. The ones who win are the ones whose work gets seen before they say a word. Optimism without proof is just PR. How do you make the quiet builders visible?

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@TalentFounder @lennysan The best builders I know would fail your average interview. They define themselves badly because the interview rewards performers, not thinkers. You find the people who build. What tells you someone can build when their CV and their pitch both lie?

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@alonmichael @lennysan The 100x version of you is not more ambitious, it just stops performing ambition and lets the work speak. Ambition that needs an audience is politics. What would you build if nobody was watching?

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Hey @DarioAmodei, still waiting for AI to take my job. The more tools I use, the more demand there is for my time. I actually want to be needed less I have a life outside of work that I'd like to get back to. Where is this job-stealing AI I was promised?

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@juliette_hiyb @lennysan Most people don't have a mind problem, they have a visibility problem. The clearest thinkers I know get skipped because thinking never shows up on a CV. What signal are you actually trying to make visible?