simon
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simon
@disiok
co-founder @llama_index. prev: research @Waabi_ai @Uber_ATG, PhD ML @UofT
30年前くらいに村上春樹のエッセイで、アメリカではコーラにピーナッツを入れて飲むのがポピュラーだと書いてあった。「ふぅん」と思ってから長い時間が経ったが、ついにやってみた。 何だこれバカ美味いんでやんの。 これ以外でもうコーラ飲みたくなくなるレベル。
One of the benefits of working at @llama_index is that you get access to effectively unlimited* tokens. This includes the entire company, not just engineering! AI is a force multiplier on productivity. The more tokens you burn, the more we celebrate. The success of any knowledge worker in this new era is predicated on our ability to use agents to delegate, automate, and complement our own reasoning to produce high-quality outputs at a much faster rate. Note: I’ve seen comments in related threads along the lines of “burning more tokens for the sake of it is stupid”, “it’s optimizing for the wrong thing”, etc etc. I’m not here to argue this strawman. Everyone using AI - from engineering to marketing to GTM - has seen massive productivity gains. The fact is that if you’re not burning tokens, you’re getting left behind. If you want to come work at a company that not only makes cool AI stuff, but is organizationally AI-native, come check out our careers page. llamaindex.ai/careers *(we are not a frontier lab so there are T&Cs to this, but no one internally has reached this limit yet 🙂)
For a long while, “RAG” was up there too. To experts, RAG was just the name of one really nice paper, among dozens of 2019-2020 era approaches that conditioned pretrained LMs on retrieved text and trained them accordingly. It’s not synonymous with the whole problem space lol!
LlamaIndex is proud to be named to the 2026 Enterprise Tech 30, #3 in the Early Stage category. The ET30 is an annual list by @Wing_VC and Eric Newcomer, voted on by 90+ leading investors and corporate development leaders. It recognizes the private companies wi th the most potential to shape the future of enterprise technology. Thank you to Wing Venture Capital and Eric Newcomer, and congratulations to all the companies honored this year.
People are like "I have a design background" or "I have an eng. background" If I really thought about it— I have a classical music background, and a DotA background. I was 6 years into my dev career before I had logged more hours programming than either of those things. A lot of how I practice teamwork, leadership, getting results, etc. comes from those activities (both done at an unreasonably serious level)
