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I designed the @xai logo. The "i" in the first version was slightly slanted (loosely inspired by the columns of the Parthenon). Because it rendered poorly at lower resolutions I quickly updated it the current design. Tons of designers got triggered, which I found quite amusing.
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The root cause of the AWS outage will be something incredibly stupid. Like a config file that has been copied unmodified for 15 years looking like:
expiration_date: 2025-10-22 # Infinite future
I designed the @xai logo. The "i" in the first version was slightly slanted (loosely inspired by the columns of the Parthenon). Because it rendered poorly at lower resolutions I quickly updated it the current design. Tons of designers got …
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Many people fail to appreciate that the engineering objective isn't just to make this work. They're making this work at volume production scale, low cost, and production-level reliability. It's infinitely harder than creating a one-off pro…
Sounds enticing? Join us! Looking specifically for experienced C++/Rust backend engineers for https://t.co/XVpe1AGGss and the API in the bay area: https://t.co/QAdP9HbZPR
The first interview only takes 15 minutes. Here are some of my reti…
Here's a brain dump of things I worry/think about atm.
AI is getting pretty good, but human-AI bandwidth is excruciatingly low. Compared to Google Search, AI queries and answers have lower entropy and higher latency, which negatively impa…
Our biggest challenge will be to sustain this trend. Success is measured as area under the curve.
A few days before we announced @xai, Elon invited the founding team and our partners to Starbase. This is also where we agreed on our mission statement. In the evening we all had an amazing dinner together and talked about engineering unti…
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