Treesrule14
Joined 12 years ago
Joined 12 years ago
Who: We're Fractional AI -- the dev shop for difficult enterprise applications of genAI.
Looking for: You! Full-stack founding engineers (5+ years of experience, 150k-210k cash, meaningful equity, 99% healthcare premium coverage )
How: apply https://jobs.lever.co/fractional or reach out to me (ben@ fractional.ai)
Why we may be a great fit:
-High impact AI projects - we work on companies' hardest problems to get genAI into production (in the same quarter you might build an AI phone agent for one customer and automate a complex workflow for another customer)
-Culture of a startup but substantive problems to solve that impact millions of users
- Curious, humble, banter-y in-person team comprised of multi-time founders
Why we may not be the best fit:
-Excellence isn't really really important to you (this is less of a 'move fast and break things' role, though we respect that ethos!)
-Predictability is important to you - we work across customers, tech stacks, industries etc
-Interacting with customers isn't your thing
The author brings out a lot of stats "smart high-schooler", "effective compute", "OOM", "Test Scores", "inference efficiency" but doesn't do a good job of explaining how the author predicted these things before hand (preregistering) and how they actual will result in new technologies or how we can extrapolate past the trend line.
Also in the unhobbling section "Tools: Imagine if humans weren’t allowed to use calculators or computers. We’re only at the beginning here, but ChatGPT can now use a web browser, run some code, and so on. "
This is so non-specific (because no one has really commercialized anything with this yet) that I worry that we don't actually know if we can make the kinds of effective tools the author is talking about. Would love some feedback on these critisms
Like I agree there's a lot of regulatory capture in the US but I just don't see any reason to think the fed is responding to big business rather than their own preferences.
There are in fact people who are saying its only corporate inflation.
The real reason i'm skeptical of the greed argument is that its just a vibes based guess on whats happening and not based on any data or insight into the situation.
I am looking to join an engineering team working on new technology (energy, cars, consumer electronics, ect.)
Dan davies did a great interview on odd lots about this he called it accountability sinks