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It would be my life's dream to spend 80 hours per week coding without having to communicate with others... but no one is an island... You really have to have a passion for coding to put in the hours and be very good at it. Incredibly rare, believe it or not. Lots of people think they are good coders but this is another level. Proof is in your commit/code review count/async comms being 10x-100x of everyone else in your org, and it's clear you're single-handedly enabling delivery of major projects earlier than anyone else could. Think of the pressure of doing this continuously. I asked him whether as a boy he had speculated much about his gift. Had he asked himself why he had this special power? Why he was so bright? Dyson is almost infallibly a modest and self-effacing man, but tonight his eyes were blank with fatigue, and his answer was uncharacteristic. “That’s not how the question phrases itself,” he said. “The question is: why is everyone else so stupid?” I don't know this guy in pa

"Greg Brockman works 60 to 100 hours per week, and spends around 80% of the time... | Hacker News Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login convexstrictly on Nov 18, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI "Greg Brockman works 60 to 100 hours per week, and spends around 80% of the time coding. Former colleagues have described him as the hardest-working person at OpenAI." https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/6309033/greg-brockman... sasaf5 on Nov 18, 2023 | next [–] I am either skeptic

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