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Post by johnnyanmac »

gambiting wrote: post #300
prerok wrote: post #296

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Depends on the country, I guess. In Europe, it would definitely not be the norm and I would definitely call previous employers if it was several 2 year stints.

If you're really in Europe then I'm sure you know that calling previous employers is completely pointless, the best you'll get is "yes this person has worked here before". And I work in games and 2-3 years at each company is pretty normal, with some exceptions people just finish a project and then move(or are let go, unfortunately). YMMV of course.

> I work in games and 2-3 years at each company is pretty normal, with some exceptions people just finish a project and then move(or are let go, unfortunately). YMMV of course.

Yeah, being laid off every 2-3 years is a lot different from job hopping and shows exactly why the games industry is in its own little pocket of screwed in this market. Especially with games taking 3-5+ years to be made. How do you keep institutional knowledge when you kick it all out and basically start from scratch every cycle.

-sincerely, another game dev

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by seattle_spring »

Yajirobe wrote: post #334
renecito wrote: post #286

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rest & vest if he makes it to IPO

I wonder what's his net worth - probably 100M+?

didn't FB grant someone else $1B over 4 years or something for some AI lead role? Wouldn't be surprised if this guy is getting similar offers, which could explode even further with the stratospheric valuations of top AI companies.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by tsunamifury »

Aaronneyer wrote: post #333
1970-01-01 wrote: post #274

He moves around quite a bit. Less than 2 years on average if you take away the longest and shortest jobs. It feels like this is just a celebrity hire to help raise IPO value, and then he'll move again when the tech hits another real-world scaling wall. Expect another short stint (stunt) with Anthropic.

Even if that's true, 2 years is a huge amount of time to make real impact right now. By 2 years, we could have a clear winner of the AGI/ASI race.

This is such a disappointing reality that people believe this.

1) advancements in AI are made by large teams of brilliant people (and individuals who take outsized credit)

2) AGI is defintionless buzz word

3) advancements in AI will need significant changes in either how the model works or fundamentally new non existent datasets.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by dukeyukey »

sneak wrote: post #315
prerok wrote: post #296

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Depends on the country, I guess. In Europe, it would definitely not be the norm and I would definitely call previous employers if it was several 2 year stints.

Europe’s labor market is sadly still mostly out of touch with how startups work. It’s stuck in the last century. I’m not sure if this is due to tradition, or due to the fact that startups are much harder to start in Europe in general, so people on both sides of the hiring process have less experience with it. Two years is more than long enough to join a startup, build 3 things, and see that your equity is never going…

Europe is not a monolith and I don't know why people think it is. 2 years stints are not unusual at all in London.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by CAP_NET_ADMIN »

sunaookami wrote: post #288
porphyra wrote: post #244

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You're not entirely wrong but your snide tone is annoying and unsuitable for this platform. Anyway, 1. Claude Code is widely used and beloved despite not benchmaxxing on the terminalbench like these harnesses that nobody has ever heard of or uses. 5. Karpathy's contributions are way more than CS 231n and coining vibe coding. In terms of pedagogy, his "zero to hero" videos, nanoGPT, etc, are all great. For actual work…

NTA but Claude Code is everything but beloved. It's incredibly meh, very buggy (to that extend that customers were literally losing money), heavily vibecoded and all around just... bad. I appreciate it for kickstarting the whole terminal agent thing and I would still use it but only because Anthropic mandates it for using Claude with your subscription.

Yep, sadly the case, been using Codex CLI a lot lately and it somehow feels more... refined. Gemini is just tragic.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by bpodgursky »

tsunamifury wrote: post #343
Aaronneyer wrote: post #333

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if that's true, 2 years is a huge amount of time to make real impact right now. By 2 years, we could have a clear winner of the AGI/ASI race.

This is such a disappointing reality that people believe this. 1) advancements in AI are made by large teams of brilliant people (and individuals who take outsized credit) 2) AGI is defintionless buzz word 3) advancements in AI will need significant changes in either how the model works or fundamentally new non existent datasets.

lol this is just not true sorry.

Claude code was one person's idea as a pet project and now it's singlehandedly 5x'd Anthropic's valuation. Sometimes single people matter, that's life.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by jen20 »

dukeyukey wrote: post #339
prerok wrote: post #296

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Depends on the country, I guess. In Europe, it would definitely not be the norm and I would definitely call previous employers if it was several 2 year stints.

Europe is not a monolith. Lots of short stints is not unusual in London.

Indeed it used to be the norm since basically everyone worth hiring was a contractor prior to the IR35 debacle.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by sneak »

dukeyukey wrote: post #344
sneak wrote: post #315

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Europe’s labor market is sadly still mostly out of touch with how startups work. It’s stuck in the last century. I’m not sure if this is due to tradition, or due to the fact that startups are much harder to start in Europe in general, so people on both sides of the hiring process have less experience with it. Two years is more than long enough to join a startup, build 3 things, and see that your equity is never going…

Europe is not a monolith and I don't know why people think it is. 2 years stints are not unusual at all in London.

London is economically, politically, geographically, and culturally fairly distinct from continental Europe.
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