Varun Godbole

we’d rather execute than talk but we were told to post more: last summer when IPAM lost federal funding mid-cycle, we flew to LA and moved $ same-day so they could make payroll it isn’t a billion dollars but enough to keep Terence Tao’s team going until the system caught up analoguegroup.org/newsroom/analo…

@aishdoingthings I've wanted to send you jestermaxxing memes for so long now but can't :(

i think getting rid of instagram a few years ago will likely be the most important decision of my 20s looking back

@DynamicWebPaige @OfficialLoganK @alexalbert__ you might be interested!

Alex is cool and you should check this out if you're in SF!

@trq212 @bcherny We can't set max thinking budget as a default anymore in the new versions?

A few end of week ships: You can now set effort to 'max' which reasons for longer and uses as many tokens as needed. This will spend your usage limits more quickly so you have to activate it per session. Hit /effort to try it.

I wrote up my experiences of how/why I decided to take a sabbatical from a frontier lab, the specific practices I used to gain this clarity, and what that's unlocked for me. varungodbole.com/p/should-i-qui…

@bcherny @trq212 Claude Code CLI has become unusable because of this login bug. Please take a look when you can, I need my boi Claude back!! github.com/anthropics/cla…

@pranesh @dharmamitra_ucb @SebastianNehrd2 This looks cool, thanks for the pointer! Taking a look!

@VarunGodbole FWIW, @dharmamitra_ucb uses "a combination of in-context-learning and the Gemini API". @SebastianNehrd2 might be able to help answer this. #mitra-translate" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">dharmamitra.github.io/dharmamitra-gu… I'm guessing they'd want to evaluate models like Sarvam 105B as well.

Does anyone know which frontier model is best at translating english to sanskrit, and vice versa?

@khoomeik I don't suppose you know? Or know someone that knows?

@SianGooding Ngl that's one of my favorite dog gifs hahahaha

By popular request, the deadline has been extended. Apply by end of week (Friday 6th March)!

@trq212 I wish double "ESC" made it possible to change my previous answers to the AskUserQuestionTool, in addition to previous user turns! This tool has become a load-bearing part of my day-to-day workflow, especially when I'm fleshing out complex plans!

An advanced, AI-powered technology is developed The Pentagon wants it and demands an eccentric CEO turn it over to the government He declines, setting up a clash between the U.S. and the company's suddenly in-demand tech Anyway this is the plot of Iron Man 2

@hyhieu226 @OpenAI @xai Kudos to you for taking care of yourself, and hope your recovery goes well!!

I have made the difficult decision to leave @OpenAI. Working here and at @xai before was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. I have met the best people. Not the best people in AI. Not the best people in tech. Simply the best people. At these companies, I have helped creating extremely intelligent entities that will meaningfully improve our lives. The work makes me proud. But the intensive work came with a price. I cannot believe I would say this one day, but I am burnt out. All the mental health deteriorating that I used to scoff at is real, miserable, scary, and dangerous. I am going to take a break from frontier AI labs, and will take my family to my home country Vietnam. There, I will try something new, and also search for a cure for my conditions. I hope I will heal. Until then.

There's a gap between the roles of therapist, spiritual teacher and executive coach. None of these disciplines engage with the mind with conscious competence around cultivating development, without being wedded to a specific cosmology. varungodbole.com/p/developmenta…

This is a sequel to my previous posts on why certain difficult decisions feel like "walls" (e.g. changing jobs, hiring/firing, changing cities, etc). It breaks down the differences between hard solvable problems and developmental ones. varungodbole.com/p/is-my-proble…

If you're struggling with a difficult decision that eludes "clear" answers (e.g. should I move cities, change jobs, break up, etc), then the systematic journal prompts in this post may be for you. varungodbole.com/p/why-is-this-…

If you're a knowledge worker and struggle with ADHD/OCD, this post may be for you. If you resonate with any of the experiences I've described, this practice may help you substantially increase your agency in a way that feels sustainable. varungodbole.com/p/overcoming-a…

I really enjoyed doing @attncopilot with @nopranablem! If you do knowledge work where you have to constantly make a lot of decisions, I'd *highly* recommend trying this out.

everyone's talking about their teams like they were at the peak of efficiency and bottlenecked by ability to produce code here's what things actually look like - your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping - majority of workers have no reason to be super motivated, they want to do their 9-5 and get back to their life - they're not using AI to be 10x more effective they're using it to churn out their tasks with less energy spend - the 2 people on your team that actually tried are now flattened by the slop code everyone is producing, they will quit soon - even when you produce work faster you're still bottlenecked by bureaucracy and the dozen other realities of shipping something real - your CFO is like what do you mean each engineer now costs $2000 extra per month in LLM bills