Yun-Ta Tsai(@yunta_tsai):I have some sympathy for people who work on LLMs. A lot of the job has become the pursuit of bar charts. For years, Full Self-Driving only had to be good where it actually matters: the world. Ourselves, friends, families, customers, and unscripted miles. Real weather, real attention, and real consequences. If we had been forced to chase those benchmarks, I don’t think it would have become a good product. You can climb a chart without ever having to be present. Presence is the whole job.

2026.09.22 04:55

I have some sympathy for people who work on LLMs. A lot of the job has become the pursuit of bar charts. For years, Full Self-Driving only had to be good where it actually matters: the world. Ourselves, friends, families, customers, and unscripted miles. Real weather, real attention, and real consequences. If we had been forced to chase those benchmarks, I don’t think it would have become a good product. You can climb a chart without ever having to be present. Presence is the whole job.

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