Amy Tam on X: "When code is free, research is all that matters" / X

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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Premium Bookmarks Creator Studio Articles Profile More Post Tasha @TashaPais Article See new posts Conversation Amy Tam @amytam01 When code is free, research is all that matters 6 9 68 6.5K The most important people of this new era won't be engineers; they'll be researchers. When anyone can build for free, the differentiator is knowing what's worth building and whether it’s buildable at all. That's what researchers do: they take problems that might not have solutions and decide if they're worth the bet. The market has priced this in for decades. Top quant firms pay $600k to undergrads who've never managed a portfolio, because someone who can reason about uncertainty well is worth more than five engineers who can implement that solution. AI labs have inherited the same dynamic at a larger scale; Meta's Superintelligence Labs has reportedly offered individual researchers packages

The most important people of this new era won't be engineers; they'll be researchers. When anyone can build for free, the differentiator is knowing what's worth building and whether it’s buildable at all. That's what researchers do: they take problems that might not have solutions and decide if they're worth the bet. The market has priced this in for decades. Top quant firms pay $600k to undergrads who've never managed a portfolio, because someone who can reason about uncertainty well is worth more than five engineers who can implement that solution. AI labs have inherited the same dynamic…

Amy Tam on X: "When code is free, research is all that matters" / X

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