Cooking fun AI systems & products @databricks. Prev: co-founder & CTO @ Hyperbolic, OctoAI (acquired by @nvidia) Apache TVM, PhD @ University of Washington.
Non-PhDs: “When I retire, I’ll finally do a PhD. Research sounds so fun.”
PhDs: “If I hadn’t done a PhD, I could’ve joined one of those fancy AI labs before ChatGPT.”
Everyone romanticizes the path they didn’t take.