Adarsh Hiremath
18 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 20, 2025 by Adarsh Hiremath · said 4 times in 1 episodes since 2026 · across every show →
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Hiremath: You Can Teach Technical Skills, But You Can't Teach Care
“One realization that we've come to is that you can teach people a lot of things, whether it be, you know, technically or going to market or whatever, but The one thing that you can't quite teach people is to care, and that's one thing that we index on pretty h…”
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025 positive
Hiremath: Mercor is moving toward fully automating its internal hiring process
“Maybe running our entire, you know, internal hiring process for Mercore in a completely automated way, meaning Brandon, Surya, and I don't even talk to someone when they come into the office, and then we walk in the conference room to meet them the first time,…”
Feb 20, 2025 positive
Feb 20, 2025 bullish
Hiremath: Expert human data will be the primary bottleneck for AI
“So synthetic data will certainly be a part of the equation, but in a lot of ways, the bottleneck to unlocking and unleashing the next level of intelligence will be expert humans, which brings me back to the question and phrase that you used, low quality human …”
Feb 20, 2025
Adarsh Hiremath defines AGI as automating economically valuable work and research
“When we achieve AGI or sort of like think about AGI, it will certainly involve You know, doing more economically valuable work, right? So when more and more and more of economically valuable work has been automated to some extent, you know, research has been a…”
Feb 20, 2025 neutral
Feb 20, 2025
Hiremath: AI will only finish 60-80% of tasks, increasing human value
“But I think the more realistic breakdown is the AI for a specific use case might be able to get us 6070, 80% of the way there. But for that remaining 40, 30, 20%, you're going to need a human To be able to take you all the way there. And the reality of the sit…”
Feb 20, 2025 bullish
Hiremath: Shift to reinforcement learning will create domain-specific reasoning AI
“The whole market is shifting to reinforcement learning, right? You're already seeing this with O-one, O-three, the deep seek models. And as a result, I think we're going to see really, really powerful models in specific domains that can reason extremely well.”
Feb 20, 2025
Hiremath: Future labor markets will shift toward extreme specialty and sophistication
“I think the key thing is that the market will move towards specialty and sophistication. Meaning the types of work that we see 50 years from now will be more specialized and oftentimes will require people with kind of like a higher level of sophistication in t…”
Feb 20, 2025 neutral
Hiremath: AI model evaluation definitionally requires human-created datasets
“I think a lot of it will be human data going forward, and I think a great example of this is evals, right? Evals for models definitionally have to be outside of model capability, right? In order to see whether model is doing well at a particular task, You need…”
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 20, 2025 bullish
Hiremath: Only a few companies will build foundational AI models
“There will only be a couple of companies that are able to build these foundation models that everyone builds off of. I think OpenAI is a great example of one of those companies. And I think, you know, that analogy roughly holds. I don't anticipate there being …”
Feb 20, 2025 positive
Hiremath: Learning Programming Is Still Essential, Shifting to Natural Language Abstraction
“My take is that programming is actually more important today And it's just going to happen at a different level of abstraction. One could argue that the leap from assembly to Python was actually maybe even a bigger leap than the leap from Python to natural lan…”
Feb 20, 2025 bullish
Hiremath: Next era of SaaS will replace entire manual services end-to-end
“I think what we consider SaaS will change, right? In the sense that the next era of SaaS will be replacing entire services, right? You know, whether it's the end-to-end process of a recruiting agency like Mercor or another, you know, different service or that,…”
Feb 20, 2025
Hiremath: Mercor pivoted to recruitment after hiring Indian developers
“And what we ended up doing is recruiting these really, really exceptional folks from India to help us out with our dev shop. And then very, very quickly we realized, you know, the software was one thing, but we had found some really, really exceptional people …”