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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Bookmarks Creator Studio Premium 50% off Profile More Post Ishaan Panigrahi @ishaanpanigrahi Article See new posts Conversation Vivek reposted Vivek @itsreallyvivek some notes on getting into frontier ai labs 3 6 106 4.6K A few days ago I wrote that getting into a frontier AI lab mostly comes down to two things: proven research and trench engineering. The more I think about it, the less these feel like separate skills. Both are expressions of the same underlying ability. Most of education is built around known answers. The textbook knows the answer. The professor knows the answer. The interviewer usually knows the answer. Even difficult problems are often exercises in recovering something that already exists. Frontier labs operate in a different regime. Nobody knows the answer. Nobody knows which architectural decisions will look obvious in five years. Nobody knows which bottlen

@itsreallyvivek: some notes on getting into frontier ai labs A few days ago I wrote that getting into a frontier AI lab mostly comes down to two things: proven research and trench engineering. The more I think about it, the less these feel like separate skills. Both are expressions of the same underlying ability. Most of education is built around known answers. The textbook knows the answer. The professor knows the answer. The interviewer usually knows the answer. Even difficult problems are often exercises in recovering something that already exists. Frontier labs operate in a different regi

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