@omarsar0: $200/week is not bad. It would cover (5-fold) all my engineering & research work. And I do a ton. It's a good direction…
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The tweet agrees that $200/week is sufficient for engineering and research work, criticizing wasteful spending on expensive models and bloated agentic workflows.
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$200/week is not bad.
It would cover (5-fold) all my engineering & research work. And I do a ton.
It’s a good direction. Let’s get back to the fundamentals.
So much waste with all these bloated agentic workflows (e.g., loops) and adopting expensive models (unnecessarily).
Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath): Tesla is one of the smartest, cracked and most advanced engineering companies in the world.
If they actually did this, then it is likely verifiably true that a dollar above $200/week is waste.
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