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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Career advice in the age of AI Phil Chen @philhchen · 20h Follow 26 134 1K 357K AI models get better at anything you can write a loss function for, and school is mostly loss functions: well-defined problems graded against known answers. Therefore, the valuable work of the next decade is everything that can't be graded within the span of model training. During my 6 years of work, I've been fortunate to have collaborated with amazing people from companies of all sizes, from my own startup, to Helm AI (15→50 FTE), Scale AI (500→1500 FTE), OpenAI (1500→3000 FTE), and Google (100,000+ FTE). As a founder, I spend a lot of time thinking about the right hires for our company's present and future. Because we are fully agent-native, our needs are very different from any company where I've previously worked. For motivated, ambitious, early-career individuals, I now have a clearer perspective on what skills are valuable in th

AI models get better at anything you can write a loss function for, and school is mostly loss functions: well-defined problems graded against known answers. Therefore, the valuable work of the next decade is everything that can't be graded within the span of model training. During my 6 years of work, I've been fortunate to have collaborated with amazing people from companies of all sizes, from my own startup, to Helm AI (15→50 FTE), Scale AI (500→1500 FTE), OpenAI (1500→3000 FTE), and Google (100,000+ FTE). As a founder, I spend a lot of time thinking about the right hires for our company's…

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