Re:Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy
by doomlaser on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @10:31PM
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The person being replaced is Chris Lattner, inventor of LLVM and Swift, of whom it was big news of his leaving Apple to join Tesla fairly recently.
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Dunno if this is his real account, but it is supposedly not working out https://twitter.com/clattner_llvm/status/877341760812232704
Huh, that's stange. He's been at Tesla what? 6 months? Interesting to see that he's moved on already.
We'll see how long Karpathy lasts.
must be nice to post a tweet that you're looking for "interesting roles" and immediately have the replies fill up with "come to microsoft", "come to google" etc etc. strange he would just throw tesla under the bus like that. anyone know why?
How is he throwing them under the bus? He said it turns out he didn't fit in well at Tesla. That's just being honest.
If the alternative is phony politeness and masking reality under a guise of everything went great then I prefer this approach.
This is a great aspect of the software industry IMO. And if you want to get lots of job offers then build some great OSS projects like this guy. It's a great way to demonstrate your skill and attract a following which guarantees you job offers.
I don't know, to me the statement begs the question "So why wasn't it a great fit?". People are going to speculate regardless of an announcement from you, if it were me I would prefer to just keep my head low and let those who really care to know/I care to tell ask me (or Tesla) personally without a bunch of unneeded commentators jumping in and potentially putting negative connotations in my mouth.
But I hadn't seen that Telsa released a similar statement, and that changes the context quite a bit to match what you describe.
Re:Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy
by erikpukinskis on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @01:35AM
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There are thousands of ecological niches. I'm the kind of programmer who takes time off to make gnocchi and think shallow thoughts about quantum physics. Not every company is into that. Some are. It's not a judgement against anyone, it's just a question of fit.
> I don't know, to me the statement begs the question "So why wasn't it a great fit?"
That's not "begging the question" [1].
Interesting. What is Chris going to do now? He was a big hire.