Jared Silver

It was a tremendous privilege sharing this talk with 500+ engineering leaders at #LeadDevNewYork yesterday. Thank you so much to @TheLeadDev for putting on such a remarkable event. We're so very lucky to have such a thoughtful and inspiring community for engineering leadership ❤️

Contrario saved us dozens of hours and helped find unique talent that we otherwise wouldn’t have discovered. Our team is materially better thanks to them. Congrats on the launch!

@arya_marwaha @ContrarioAI Congrats on the launch! 🚀

Today, we’re launching @ContrarioAI after reaching $6M annualized revenue in under 6 months. We’re on a mission to superpower a network of expert recruiters with AI agents to help companies hire great talent faster. Today, Contrario partners with 200+ companies, including Listen Labs, Wispr Flow, and Slash, alongside hundreds of recruiting agencies and in-house talent teams who’ve made it their platform of choice.

Few folks are thinking more about maximizing AI-enabled developer productivity than Mitchell and his team. Well worth a read!

@ammaar Good luck tomorrow! It's been awesome building on top of Gemini at @brilliantorg — excited to see what you have in store.

Can’t wait to show you all what we’ve been cooking up for I/O 🚀 Going to be a fun week :)

@nickabouzeid @RivetTax Congrats on the launch! 🚀

Introducing TaxBench: a reliability-first benchmark for tax AI from @RivetTax. We are an AI-enabled accounting firm. We file returns for Cursor, Cognition & 100s more. Everyone here seems certain LLMs can do our job. We built TaxBench to actually measure it. Not yet. 👇 rivet.tax/taxbench

It's never too late to learn how percentages work.

"A lot of what matters is in your control." @JaredSilver leads eng at @brilliantorg, the STEM platform with over 10M users. In this interview, he shares the signals he hires for and why early-career engineers have more to leverage than they think: reachcapital.com/resources/thou…

man, i can't wait to show off the recent work we've been cooking up @brilliantorg

A statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. anthropic.com/news/statement…

StatLine #1 ✅ Medium ✅ Hard ✅ Extreme ⚾ 3/3 · 🔥 Streak: 1 statline.gg

.@strickinato @forestfari go behind-the-scenes of our new interactive Python course, where breaking things is expected. With smart autocomplete handling syntax, you focus on the real work: logic, iteration, and debugging. By the end, you’ll have built a cybersecurity system, while becoming skilled at learning from real-world errors.

IDEA ABSORPTION Idea generation is one of my biggest strengths as a problem solver but the inability to watch when / where i was doing it, was a big weakness early in my career as an executive / leader. I didn’t even realize I was inundating my org with ideas, until a peer Eng leader came to me and said “Gokul you’ve got to stop generating idea confetti. The org needs focused execution, not more ideas.” I’ve never forgotten that line from nearly two decades ago. I made two changes: (a) ideating in very small, mostly 1:1,settings with senior leaders, to flesh out a concept (I do this with AI today!), vs in groups, unless the goal of the group meeting was to ideate, and (b) trying to be Socratic in phrasing: “should we consider X” and being clear that X is a suggestion, not a directive, and it’s the team’s job to decide if X makes sense vs all the other things on their plate. Learnt this the hard way after being presented work output by someone who had worked on a project for a week based on misinterpreting a throwaway comment from me at a meeting. It was cathartic to see that Bezos had the same issue early on in his career. From a recent interview: “Jeff Wilke came to me one day he worked for Amazon for a quarter of a century but this is when he probably knew me only for a year and he said “Jeff you have enough ideas to destroy Amazon.” And this was such a shocking idea for me Jeff said you have enough ideas per minute per day per week to destroy Amazon. I was like what do you what do you mean? He’s like you have to release the work at the right rate that the organization can accept it and he was a manufacturing expert and so you know his view of the world was every time I released an idea I was creating a backlog a queue work in process and because it was just stacking up it was adding no value and in fact it was creating distraction and so he said ‘Look you have to figure out when to release these new ideas at a rate that the organization can accept them and this was I mean this sounds so obvious but it was not obvious at the time to me and this was a profound insight for me and so I started prioritizing the ideas better keeping lists of them keeping them to myself until the organization was ready for the ideas and then I also started figuring out how can I build an organization that can be ready for more ideas that’s about having the right senior team and the right leadership and getting those people the executive bandwidth so they could do more ideas per unit time and so and and that is what we built we built a company that’s very good at inventing and doing more than one thing at a time and you do want to build as the company gets bigger you do want to be able to do more than one thing at a time but that idea of releasing the work was very profound for me and it made it made us operationally more effective while still being inventive and do you think you’re a better inventor.”

If you’re passionate about education and have a knack for designing elegant, new interfaces: @brilliantorg is an awe-inspiring product and team to join Few things inject optimism into my veins like the work @suekhim @pcho are leading rn

If you still need a ticket, you can get 25% off with discount code JARED25: leaddev.com/leaddev-new-yo…

I'n hosting a couple of sessions at @TheLeadDev NYC on October 15th & 16th. Should be a fun time!

@suekhim Looks amazing! How much styling direction did they give?

Restored an I.M. Pei townhouse as a little side quest… and then Dwell magazine showed up to photograph it yesterday. AMA!

The work that Brilliant is doing feels as innovative and consequential as it comes. We should make this technology available to every math student under the sun. Get off the timeline and go touch graphs.

we’re hiring product designers @brilliantorg small passionate team, ambitious roadmap, and an opportunity to design interactive experiences that genuinely help people learn hard things. links below

@charmaine_klee He’s burning through 50 H100s every single day. Jared from engineering says we need a bigger snack budget.