Alexandra Barr

@LennyIce @chexmatrix oooh, thanks for the reco :)

@BarrAlexandra re: llms replicating your writing style, you might find this from @chexmatrix interesting esharpe1.substack.com/p/the-document

writing is really hard. so i’m trying to do it more i think good things come if you believe it’s ok to embarrass yourself in the pursuit of human connection here’s my attempt to imperfectly express myself and practice the act of craft/creation poastoffice.com

guys, 1-800-chatgpt is so backkk and so is my fav hat

I’m hiring for my research team @OpenAI 🪄 Data will pave the way for AGI. This is a foundational TPM role to shape frontier AI models with real world data, RL environments, and data acquisition. Looking for: - Entrepreneurial, gritty, high horsepower - Highly technical and deeply curious about AI research - Excited to lead relationships with CEOs and data partners from day 1

@hudzah @RichardMCNgo nominative determinism is having its year in 2026 fr fr

@BarrAlexandra @RichardMCNgo nominative determinism strikes again

how @RichardMCNgo got his last name before becoming an independent ai safety researcher

@willdepue @ericmitchellai as a non-shill post

@willdepue @ericmitchellai i feel like you need to say this louder for the people in the back, esp. as someone who’s well regarded + has recently left oai

[warning, shillpost] Had to read this twice because it so shockingly mischaracterizes (my experience of) OAI. I simply cannot overemphasize how wrong this is (again, from my experience). There have been multiple times, in both 1:1 and group settings, where I have personally directly disagreed with, corrected, or expressed frustration with leadership to Sam. Sam always responded with curiosity, open-mindedness, and even deference when I've brought disagreement/complaint/correction to him. Most times he has actively asked that I follow up with more thoughts or ideas on how we can do better on the subject. To the point of "street cred", at least one of these instances was in my first ~6 months at OAI, and nonetheless I was impressed by how quickly Sam changed his view when presented with data disagreeing with it (can clearly remember handful of people in that meeting who could attest). No place is perfect; OpenAI is obviously not a perfect company and Sam is not a perfect leader; he'd be first to admit that and has spoken in the past to places where he can improve. That seems healthy. We (leadership included) have made mistakes; but, as Steve Jobs would say, at least that means we made some decisions! To claim that OpenAI has a culture where people are retaliated against for honest criticism of leadership or overall company direction is (in my experience) truly ridiculous. We make fun of our chaos (yes, including leadership, which does have a very hard job) as much as anyone! I would say we do however have very little patience for talking a big game without delivering.

me: reading his take on ai 2040 mindthefuture.info/p/selective-op…

damn, i remember being the 13th hire at surge and look at em now

@googlephotos hahahahah omg ok thank u

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i’ll believe in agi when google photos stops cheerfully jump-scaring me with unprompted “has it really been 5 yearss…???” notifs about ghosts of bfs past

@viemccoy *claps from the peanut gallery*

my job sort of feels like I'm standing in front of a big dial that says "Sci-Fi" on it and I'm turning it up slowly while looking back at the audience (my coworkers) to see if I'm doing a good job

@spaniel_bashir 1936?

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, c. 1936

@spaniel_bashir stunninnnnngg

@deanwball can confirm this via his part ii post on rsi from feb 2026 x.com/deanwball/stat…

in feb 2026, journalists were tentatively, politely speculating that codex was helping openai do research and just 5 months later 5.6 sol post-trained 5.6 luna with a ~500 word prompt

@growing_daniel x.com/barralexandra/…

Bill gates daughter scamming to get her startup revenue is insanely impressive. Where does an S tier nepo baby get that kind of drive?

someone at a party last night said VCs will ask you what childhood trauma you’re recovering from, and if you say you don’t have any, they won’t fund you

@BrendanFoody so true

@BarrAlexandra 👋

if u work in human data or data acq, pls stand up

@evayzh @jxnlco sooo good 🔥🔥

if you like watching videos on 2x speed you might like watching GPT-sol do things with CUA here's GPT- Sol making a cannon in Blender (but this video is NOT sped up) make CUA fast again