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Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by prerok »

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.

At startups? Sure. Several stints at non-startups? Well, how much of that time was spent learning the domain? Is that knowledge transferrable (probably not because of non-competition clause)? Why were you not happy at the previous employer?

I am not saying any of these don't have valid answers. What I am saying is that we would prefer juniors that are commited and do the hard work when the work gets hard. And, at least where I work now, this gets recognized, and they become seniors in time.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by themafia »

> I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

"However, it turns out, my deep passion can easily be put on hold with money. Also I'm not really sure what the definition of passionate is."

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by prerok »

barrenko wrote: post #327
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.

And we have the stock market to show for it.

I would not say that this is because of this point. It's because investors in Europe are more conservative. Employees are as well, it's true, so it's strange to have someone out of the norm. It's not a red flag per se, but it's a thing to be evaluated.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by prerok »

toephu2 wrote: post #324
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.

Andrej Karpathy is from Europe (Slovakia).

His point of origin is immaterial to my point. I was not commenting specifically for Mr. Karpathy. My point was generic.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by holoduke »

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

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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.

It's about equity worth nothing jn Europe as an employee. Europe is a bad place for employees to join a startup. Lots of time people are attracted with shares/stars whatever. Only to find out they get nothing or are taxed to hell. There is a reason why Europe is failing.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by Barrin92 »

canada_dry wrote: post #60
prodigycorp wrote: post #35

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i wouldn't be surprised if he just becomes a glorified marketer for anthro. im also going to guess that whatever research he does would be free roam research that primarily serves to market the fact that claude was able to help perform the research. the visible stuff he's been working on has been mostly agent soft skills. off the top of my head is autoresearch and his the wiki knowledge stuff. nothing particularly gr…

> just becomes a glorified marketer That implies Karpathy is either dumb or desperate and he is neither of those by a long shot.

he's not dumb or desperate compared to the average person, but it's very possible to be dumb and desperate compared to the delusional promises and outsized amounts of money in the industry. Manages to make smart people look extremely stupid every day.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by behnamoh »

aabhay wrote: post #305
aykutseker wrote: post #295

the glorified marketer framing in this thread is missing the bigger signal. karpathy publicly pausing eureka labs to join anthropic is an ai founder of his caliber effectively conceding that verticals get eaten by frontier upgrades.for everyone here building on top of foundation, that's the actual news

How serious was Eureka labs anyway? It seemed like essentially a banner for him messing around with content creation

people often found businesses to write off expensive purchases. my friend has a "company" which does nothing but he wrote off a $5000 MBP for this business expenses...

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by clear-octopus »

Veserv wrote: post #47
Traster wrote: post #27

Karpathy is probably one of the biggest names in AI, I do wonder where he fits now. He's sort of bounced around Tesla back to OpenAI back to independent. He sort of left OpenAI before it really hit the inflection point, and he was at Tesla for a long time and they didn't really deliver what they wanted on the AI side. Now he's bounced around a few places. I understand that the leaders in this market play this silly g…

I mean, you would think that all those people he killed as the person in charge of deploying knowingly dangerously defective self-driving software for profit would have had a impact. But executives seem to just skate on killing customers to line their own pockets these days. Just "following orders" I guess.

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Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by deadbabe »

behnamoh wrote: post #357
aabhay wrote: post #305

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How serious was Eureka labs anyway? It seemed like essentially a banner for him messing around with content creation

people often found businesses to write off expensive purchases. my friend has a "company" which does nothing but he wrote off a $5000 MBP for this business expenses...

Get him audited.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by [deleted] »

shuckles wrote: post #73
canada_dry wrote: post #60

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> just becomes a glorified marketer That implies Karpathy is either dumb or desperate and he is neither of those by a long shot.

No it doesn’t? It matches his skills to the lab’s needs. Karpathy is a media personality, manager, and educator far more than he is a hands-on researcher.

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