
AI Product and Growth Consultant. Former: Growth @SlimDevOps. PM @TripAdvisor, @Orbitz / Writer & Editor @Forbes, @Money, @Entrepreneur, @Outside.
Boston, MA
Joined November 2009
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It's a fact: we have the best interns. On #NationalInternDay, we're celebrating all the ways they're helping us give Americans the data they deserve.
From building AI agents and running online workshops to digging into raw government data, we're so grateful for everything they do.
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🎉Exciting news: We were named an honoree of @FastCompany's 2025 Brands That Matter!
Every day, our team digs deep into government data to make it more accessible, more understandable, and more useful for every American.
We don’t do it for awards — but it does feel good when the mission gets noticed. Thanks, Fast Company! #FCBrandAwards
fastcompany.com/brands-that-…
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In our new 6-part series, we're sharing #JustTheFacts on government support in America.
Food. Housing. Healthcare. Education. How do these programs work? Who do they help? What do they cost?
It's not just about numbers — it’s about understanding what support systems exist and asking: Do we do too much, too little, or just the right amount?
youtube.com/watch?v=rsUeoe2G…
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This is actually a really solid context engineering template.
Kudos, @AnthropicAI
I cast my vote for #ShortyAwards Audience Honors! Help us vote and share daily through April 30th! shortyawards.com/17th/just-t…
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By next Tuesday, tens of millions of Americans will have cast ballots not only for president but also for representation in Congress.
But just how representative is Congress of its constituents?
I feel so fortunate to get to work with this amazing group at @USAFacts... If you haven't checked out the #JustTheFacts videos yet, you're missing out on some great data!
America is made up of 3.8 million square miles of land — and home to 337 million people. Watch #JustTheFacts with Steve Ballmer to learn more about America by the Numbers.
If true, 2025 is going to be a truly wild time to be alive and working in tech. 🤞🤞🤞
Notes from the conversation between @sama and @kevinweil
"With o1 (and it's predecessors) 2025 is when agents will work."
* How close are we to AGI? After finishing a system they would ask, "in what way is this not an AGI?" The word is over loaded. o1 is level two AGI.
* Increasing the rate of scientific discovery is a northstar for AGI Sam aims for
* "The fact that definitions matter this much means we are getting close"
* "We are in this period where is going to feel blurry for a while. (wrt to identifying AGI)
* "If we can make an AI system that is better at AI research than OpenAI is, then that feels like real milestone"
* Mission: Build safe AGI. If the answer is a rack of GPUs, they'll do that. If the answer is research, they'll do that
* "It's easy to copy things you know that work. But to do something new for the first time, 'Let's go find the new paradigm', that is what motivates us."
* On Alignment: "It's true we have a different take on alignment than...whatever that internet forum is..." "We want to figure out how to build capable models that get safer and safer over time" "We have an approach of figure out where the capabilities are going then work to make it safe. o1 is our most capable model, and it's our most aligned model too"
* "Iterative deployment is our best safety system we have"
* "I think worrying about the scifi is one of the most important things we have"
* "No matter how many smart people you have inside your walls, there are way more smart people outside your walls" - Kevin
* How do agents fit into OpenAIs long term plans? o1 models, and all of it's predecessors will be the thing that makes agents actualy happen.
* "People get used to any new tech quickly, but this (agents) will be a big deal"
* "People will ask an agent to do something that would have taken them a month, and it'll take an hour. Then they'll have 10x agents, then they'll have 1000x agents"
* What's the blocker to agents controlling your computer? Safety and alignment
* Figuring out the boundary of what AI can do today, but can't fully do yet is the sweet spot. Cause you'll be the go-to when the new model comes out
* Sam, people thing that technology makes a company, not true, it takes a lot of execution. "It doesn't execuse you from building a good business." "People are tempted to forget that with AI"
* "Saying please/thank you to ChatGPT is a good thing to do, you never know"
* Before the end of the year, o1 will support function calling. Along with system prompts and structured output
* "The model is going to get so much better so fast" We know how to get it to the next level. "Plan for the model to get rapidly smarter"
* "Google's notebook thing is really cool, what's it called again?" - Sam
* "Anthropic did a good job with projects" - Kevin
* "Do you think you'll be smarter than o2? No one wants to take that bet?"
* Making models that are the best at reasoning is a big deal for the company
* Internal dogfooding is the way they measure how good the models are
* As we move the world of agents, OpenAI will try virtual employees
* When're offline models? - "We're open to it, it's not a high priority on the current roadmap." Interesting that Sam pointed to Kevin to answer, then Kevin pointed back and deffered back to Sam
* Where do you sit with open source? "I think open source is awesome, if we had more bandwidth, we would do it. We've had to put other things ahead of it." "I do hope we do something (oss) at some point"
* Why can't it sing, "we can't have it sing copyrighted songs. We want it to sing too, but it's nuanced to getting it right. We really want the models to sing too."
* Context windows, there are two takes on that. Long context has gotten less usage than Sam thought.
* "When will we get to 10T tokens?" - Sam, "infinite context lenght will happen within the decade"
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Thanks for following along! The debate may be over but the conversation about our country, of course, continues.
Join @Steven_Ballmer on @TheDailyShow
with @jonstewart as they debrief the #debate and discuss the #JustTheFacts on US immigration and the economy.
TONIGHT: @USAFacts founder @Steven_Ballmer joins Jon Stewart LIVE following the presidential debate!
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Replying to @psvann
@psvann look who I found doing a really amazing LIVE demo!
@KitMerker and the @PlainsightAI team are taking the Vision Intelligence to the next level.
From my own experience, this is fantastic in a production line for quality control.
The wish it existed back then Corsair 🏴☠️
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go @Superhuman go!
The Google Glass 👓. Great look @KitMerker #KuberTENes
From project to product 🚚
.@KitMerker takes us for a ride in the flash back machine to early 2016 discussing the transition of #Kubernetes into the enterprise and the shift in focus to support and features
#KuberTENes #celebr8k8s
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🙏🏼 @_IainMartin @Forbes @alexrkonrad for chronicling some of my 28 yr journey of ups + downs
+ my parents absolutely ❤️ as they became huge OG James Bond fans after emigrating from 🇰🇷
🙏🏼 @Boldstartvc team + the founders who place their faith in us, you make every day special
Huge congrats @edsim for placing on the Midas Seed list for a third year
As @_IainMartin @Forbes wrote for his profile:
"As investors jockey to write earlier checks, Sim has long championed an approach he calls “inception investing” working with founders with little more than an idea to shape a business."
“If you have a founder with a crazy vision that might be two or three years ahead of what’s available today, that's when the magic happens,” says Sim, who has backed the likes of @snyksec @Superhuman @bigidsecure @kustomer
🙏🏼 to the amazing enterprise founders who have chosen @Boldstartvc as inception partners
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Very cool 🔥 to see the maintainers from @argoproj using genAI to review PRs on GitHub. Nice demo during the session from the contributors meeting by Regina and Pasha
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The simplest use cases are often the most powerful!
So glad @Superhuman didn't build its own ML team yrs ago in response to Gmail Instant Reply - would have cost lots of 💰+ we would have lost as nowhere near data of Google
But alas...Amazing what an API can do!
Now @Superhuman @rahulvohra an @OpenAI
case study!
LFG 🚀
openai.com/customer-stories/…
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Good article on “compound ai systems”
Describes pretty nicely what we’re trying to help build at langchain
Interesting trend in AI: the best results are increasingly obtained by compound systems, not monolithic models.
AlphaCode, ChatGPT+, Gemini are examples.
In this post, we discuss why this is and emerging research on designing & optimizing such systems.
bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2024/…
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On Tues 13th Feb 2024 at 10am Pacific time I am delivering my LIVE DevRel Kickstart workshop.
It is totally free to join, and you will learn 4 key things:
✅ Hiring: what to look for, how to hire, and how to get hired
✅ Blueprint: my 2-phase dev experience + growth pipeline
✅ Metrics: what to measure, how to set targets, and how to grow
✅ Accountability: how to align DevRel staff and execs
The session will be super-interactive, complete with lots of LIVE Q&A...as well as included templates, cheatsheets, and more.
Spaces are limited, so go sign up:
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