Fernanda Palacios

@shawnthomas00 @Yuchenj_UW I’m not willing to outsource all of my thinking 🤷🏻‍♀️

@fernandaplcs @Yuchenj_UW Knowing how to think used to be important until about twenty years ago.

I’m so glad AI killed LeetCode interviews. For 10 years, tech companies made every engineer grind the same puzzles and prove they could invert a binary tree from memory. Today, the dumbest AI model can walk in and one-shot the entire interview. Thank you, AI.

Does anyone know how to adjust this on claude desktop or website? don't see how on claude's settings or my mac's settings @AnthropicAI

today was my first time having a full voice conversation with Claude and I'm already looking for a playback speed setting. can't take 1x

@andruyeung am I gen z? 🤔

Gen Z is the most entrepreneurial generation in American history. A recent report showed that 43% of Gen Z adults plan to start a business in 2026. That's more than Millennials and SIGNIFICANTLY more than double Gen X at 21%. But I'm also noticing that being a venture-backed founder is becoming the new default for people who can't find a job. Many of the new grads and MBAs in my network are starting companies because of the impossible job market. And almost none of them are bootstrapping. They're all trying to raise venture capital. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? My default assumption is that it's good. More entrepreneurs mean more innovation. Startups are essentially business, tech, and distribution experiments. The more we have, the more shots on goal. But I can't help but think there's adverse selection playing out here. These entrepreneurs are starting companies because they can't get jobs, not because they have a unique insight or a burning problem to solve. What you get is lower-quality operators and fewer original ideas. Some call these "tourist founders." They quit after 12 months when things get hard. We'll see how this plays out over the next five to ten years. My advice for anyone starting a company right now: make sure you're doing it for the right reasons. The most successful founders I know would be building even if they had other options. They're not running away from the job market. They're running toward a problem they can't stop thinking about.

@dabit3 @OpenAI @cognition @AnthropicAI @Google 👀

Forward Deployed Engineer is the hottest, and one of the most in-demand, jobs right now. Every major AI company is hiring including companies like @OpenAI @cognition @AnthropicAI and @Google If you possess a combination of soft skills (good communication), have an engineering background, and are up to speed on the latest and greatest in agentic coding you're probably able to land one of them. They pay well and offer a foot in the door to some of the fastest growing companies in the world.

@haider1 @ylecun need to learn about world models

Yann LeCun says you cannot build a reliable agentic system without a world model LLMs don't have world models. They can't predict the consequences of their actions before taking them "they just act, and whatever happens next is someone else's problem" Without that, it's not intelligence

Working in a male-dominated field only makes me appreciate being a woman more 🩷

@mdahardy jealous

Coming from Boston this never gets old

@sucholutsky love the name ☕️

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@GadSaad @elonmusk If only he hadn’t laid me off along with half the company 🫠

It is impossible to overestimate the historic importance of @elonmusk purchasing this platform. He saved freedom of speech. He saved truth.

love this. better quality of life and for a prolonged period

Of course I had to check Spotify’s new wrapped-style recap of my entire listening history. Looks like I started using Spotify in 2016. And I have very much not stopped since then. I literally could not live without music. It’s worth noting that before Spotify, I had an ipod, listened to mp3 files, cds, radio, you name it.

Just filled out my first census in Canada and it was very short, almost too short. So I looked it up and apparently there is a short-form and a long-form questionnaire. 1 in 4 random households get the long form and the rest get the short form. I assume I got the short one, otherwise I have questions for Statistics Canada.

@AndrewYNg @coursera @udemy @grok what is the new company called?

I'm delighted that @coursera and @udemy have come together as one company to serve learners. Both Coursera and Udemy were founded with the belief that access to high-quality education changes lives. Over the years, both companies have advanced this goal, creating opportunities for individuals, organizations, and communities around the world. That role is even more important now, as AI is changing the nature of work and increasing the need for continuous learning. Helping people build job-relevant skills will be critical to how we create a better world. By combining the strengths of both ‌companies, we can better serve this need. We bring together a broader range of learning content, trusted instructors and educators, and engaging learning experiences. This creates new opportunities to make learning more personalized, more applied, and more accessible at scale. I’m excited to serve as Chairman of the combined company, working alongside Greg Hart and the leadership team. There is a strong foundation in both organizations, and I look forward to what the teams will build together to expand access opportunity globally. Learn more: blog.coursera.org/coursera-and-u…

an evening learning about vc from these amazing panelists

coolest! @RoundtableHQ_

I love the amount of daylight in Toronto at this time of the year