The Wisdom Wall

“And so when you are leading groups of people, if you want to reduce the amount of politics and people going off and, and, you know, forming side cliques and all this, stop having one-on-ones, have big meetings with everyone who you want to tell something and tell them all at once. And don't allow anyone to send you an…”

“What's changed though is that unlike the Keynesian beauty contest where the winner is the one with the most money, in reality, there's a point at which you get enough money and you don't need more. And for the first time in history, the, the startups are not starved for cash. They have all they need and more. So now…”

“What we realized was, and this is what most people get wrong when they're trying to, to do this themselves. They'll, they'll take the reading of tokens or what's called, um, um, pre-fill, and they'll do that on one piece of hardware, and then they'll put the generation of tokens on another piece of hardware. But the…”

“Now bring in the LPU, and you can go deeper, faster, you can search faster, and so you can actually make a model smarter by making it faster. And so the realization is, and now that you've got this ability to reflect, think deeply, and change the outcome based on your thinking, being able to think faster makes you…”

“The biggest flip in my hiring was when I went from looking for positives, which is what you do when you're trying to grow talent, to looking for negatives, which is what you do when you're trying to select talent.”

“The, the LPU and GPU, as mentioned, they, they're better at different parts of what's, what's called the decoder layer of an LLM. Um, the GPU is better at the attention portion, and the LPU is better at sort of applying the weights, which is the, the thing that gets trained as opposed to the memory.”

“And so GPUs and LPUs combined ended up giving better performance across the performance curves.”

“AI is really good at using AI. And that's really what agentic is, right? So humans benefit from using AI. So does AI. Just like you would do research about me before I show up on your show, AI is going to kick off a job doing research on different tools it's going to use while it's using this other tool. And so it…”

“Yeah, and, and this also goes towards a shift of going, people are moving from being ICs or individual contributors to all being leaders, but leaders of AI.”

“And the basic idea in intentional leadership is if I ask someone, should I do something? Oh, they have opinions. Most people will be pessimistic and give you negative opinions. On the other hand, if you express intentional leadership, you say, I intend to do this. People don't tend to offer their opinion, but if it's…”

“When you create homework or a test for kids, if they can look up the answer online, or if they can ask AI to solve it, you haven't taught them what they need for the next stage. But if you give them a problem where they have to ask the questions and get AI to solve it, then you have.”