LLM and AI hacker. Head of AI Systems @PalantirTech. Ex @ArynInc, @FixieAI, OctoML, Apple, Google, Xnor, Harvard prof. I like big models and I cannot lie.
Seattle
Joined April 2008
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Some thoughts on Rust and how LLM coding agents have radically changed the landscape when it comes to picking up new languages and tooling for a team.
medium.com/@mdwdotla/revisit…
I am hiring a team at Palantir to build autonomous systems for area defense. Looking for senior devs in Seattle to join the mission. Job posting below.
jobs.lever.co/palantir/88f8f…
Terms working their way into my lexicon since starting at @PalantirTech: "echelon", "situational awareness", "saved rounds", "throw new SafeIllegalArgumentException()"
Today I wrapped up teaching an AI course for older adults at the @OsherLifelong Institute at @UW. Fantastic experience. One of the students even made me chocolate chip cookies. That never happened at Harvard.
I asked ChatGPT to generate an image of what it thinks I look like, based on all of our previous chats, including information about my interests and hobbies. I think it pretty much nailed it.
I haven't written significant Java code in more than 25 years, but thanks to ChatGPT it's all coming back to me now ... like riding a bicycle with fifteen extra pedals and no seat
Sharing some of my reasons for my latest career shift and joining @PalantirTech.
mdwdotla.medium.com/on-start…
Just to be clear: I have nothing to do with @MattWalshBlog. (@timesofindia ran a story apparently confusing me with him.)
I'm open sourcing Podverse.ai, the AI-powered podcast app that I've developed over the last few months.
mdwdotla.medium.com/introduc…
github.com/mdwelsh/podverse
podverse.ai
Matt Welsh retweeted
Today we're releasing Ultravox v0.5, the next iteration of our open-weight speech language model
With this release, we've closed the gap with proprietary models. Ultravox now outperforms GPT-4o Realtime & Gemini 1.5 Flash on key benchmarks for speech understanding
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I’m excited to announce that I have joined @PalantirTech as Head of AI Systems, applying AI to critical national security challenges.
linkedin.com/posts/welsh-mat…
In an effort to avoid spending $350 to replace an e-ink tablet with a broken USB port, I have successfully spent $400 on equipment and materials to repair it myself. #winning
Use of AI tools like @cursor_ai is spoiling me. I now expect to be able to just hit <tab> in any window and have everything autocomplete. <tab><tab><tab><tab>
Like the rest of the Artificial Intelligentsia, I have switched to @cursor_ai as my IDE of choice. So much more powerful than Copilot! Not sure I can write code without an LLM behind the scenes anymore.
Today I am proud to announce the start of the Rebellion. Our first meeting will be on Alderaan next week.