phil chacko

New personal portfolio site. Lemme know what y'all think. philchacko.com

Dario is wrong. He knows absolutely nothing about the effects of technological revolutions on the labor market. Don't listen to him, Sam, Yoshua, Geoff, or me on this topic. Listen to economists who have spent their career studying this, like @Ph_Aghion , @erikbryn , @DAcemogluMIT , @amcafee , @davidautor

@crislenta Congrats Cris!

Super crazy to say, and super proud to announce, that my O1-A got approved! I'M AN ALIEN OF EXTRAORDINARY ABILITY The chip on the shoulder got lighter. I feel more freedom to create from happiness, because I like creating, because im in love with the process of creation, and not because I want to fill the emptiness. It feels like this is the last confirmation point I needed to finally understand that my original ideas are good enough, that they are worth pursuing. The past week already started to feel more focused. You can't be ahead of the wave AND ask for consensus. I'm happy, feel lighter, and I love creating big things from this new, happier place. Heyyyyyyyy!!! LFG!!! Mega thanks to so many people around me! This would not have been possible without you! @fdotinc @extraordinary + the people who vouched for me in front of the US Gov signing their names! PS: celebrating the O1 with the f inc boyzzz drinking bavarian bier! 🇷🇴🇩🇪

@a16z Hmmmm, misleading. You're comparing NYC square-foot prices with all-US prices... Shouldn't you be comparing against NYC-specific groceries? Fairway, Duane Reade, etc

NYC's government-run grocery store is expected to open in 2029 at a $30M cost to taxpayers More charts: a16z.news/p/charts-of-th…

@FanaHOVA Kernel is a great space!! Thanks for the open house last month!

You deserve more than a crowded Blue Bottle and a batch of 400 startups... I'm launching Kernel Grants, a pre-seed program that will invest $271,828 in 10 founders/year who are building tooling and infrastructure for the token factories of the future. We have an amazing set of speakers lined up for our first set of events: - @pirroh, President of Replit - @soumithchintala, CTO of Thinky - @jeremyphoward, Founder of Answer.ai - @NaderLikeLadder, Dir. of DevTech at NVIDIA - @OfficialLoganK, MOTS at DeepMind (and first ever Latent Space guest!) - @clattner_llvm, Founder of Modular - @dylan522p, Founder of SemiAnalysis - @swyx, Editor of Latent Space (+ AIE, Cognition, etc!) Batches are a relic of pre-AI acceleration. Any day is a great day to start building, so applications are open and we accept founders on a rolling basis. Let's build! kernellabs.ai/grants Enjoy an exclusive tour of our Kernel space 👀

@unable0_ Amazon used to just be a bookstore, and they're in Seattle.

how San Francisco does a company need to be to go from Allbirds to AWS

@zhzHNN Is there an easy way to try generating worlds with Lyra or HY World? Would love to compare with what's already been out.

Today feels like World Model Day. Beyond LLMs, many other fields are still moving fast. With enough capital and brilliant people going deep, real progress keeps happening. x.com/i/status/20444… - NVIDIA: t.co/bC32ADfvDS - Tencent: 3d-models.hunyuan.tencent.com/world/ - World Lab: sparkjs.dev/examples/strea…

@soboltoshi @mattworkman @intellijidea What do you think of StackBlitz's web containers? webcontainers.io

@philchacko @mattworkman @intellijidea Leaning towards it but then I’d still have to run a container for the user to operate their website/business or have them connect their OpenClaw (less optimal) You can buy domains & hosting using agents & it can be operated using x402 Hard part is security for containers

someone is building the AI first Epic Games x Unreal Engine right now. PROBABLY in SF, but it could obviously be any where with an internet connection I think the Half Life built Counter Strike, Roblox UGC, UEFN, concept is perhaps not the future. This is likely trying to scale the Blockbuster mode when digital downloads and steraming was what happened. The business model will be something novel like Uber was to taxis. Only possible with the mature internet and everyone having interconnected super computers in their pockets. when anyone will be able to actually just create their own custom agentic game/world as easily as they would draft an email what is the business that extracts value from that?

@soboltoshi @mattworkman @intellijidea I like this! Would guess browser native?

@mattworkman @philchacko The starting point seems to be porting Minecraft into @intellijidea or the react 3 fiber code sandbox Basically an IDE which is also a game & a studio & a research lab. I’ve built the shell. The hard part whether the intelli J IDE should be streamed or react browser native

I don’t necessarily mean the current family of real-time, interactive video models. They have the same problem pixel streaming platforms like Stadia did - running a dedicated cloud GPU for every user session doesn’t scale well. There could be some shared memory component with persistent state, not sure. What do you think? In the meantime ThreeJS and vibecoding are a match made in heaven.

@philchacko I think we need a generation or two jump of hardware + internet data center speed, unfathomable now but yeah basically real time conistent world models syncd between users being rendered local/cloud mix. All latent. MAAAYYYBE a 3D base layer, maybe

@ruilong_li Nice work!!

One of the coolest project I've been involved in NVIDIA. The quality is insane. 👀

@jamesckane @theworldlabs @sparkjsdev Whoaaa!! This is amazing!! ❤️

STARSPEED: Zero-G Aerial Combat is out now! My Descent/DOOM-inspired multiplayer spaceship shooter w/ a 10-song synthwave OST Battle in km-scale sci-fi environs of 100m+ gaussian splats on 💻 & 📱 via the web w/ @theworldlabs & @sparkjsdev's .rad format starspeed.game

@Azadux These different people unearthed the Tonga Room like it's the tomb of King Tut. 😂

Im still thinking about this tweet

It would be ideal if it was private job creation. Public-private partnerships, perhaps. I agree the trust isn’t there for an FDR-style jobs program. But, I’m thinking historically to how countries industrialized in the mid-20th century and built a middle class. Seemed like a popular technological revolution.

@philchacko @provisionalidea Sure, I could see a government jobs program. But that might happen via subsidy rather than directly, since half of this country is too brain broken to not lash out against the government doing anything directly anymore.

I do not understand the performative bullshit that passes for progressivism in the United States these days. Ridesharing was never *supposed* to be a full-time job. It was never good, stable employment. It was called ‘gig work’ because it was supposed to be intermittent, supplemental income. It didn’t provide basic protections and benefits, was sometimes illegal, yet somehow managed to become load-bearing for many after years of recession and austerity from which the country never really recovered. Workers have agitated for better conditions but not much has come of it. That Uber and Lyft are now being magically portrayed by progressive organizations as purveyors of Good Jobs For Honest Americans as opposed to venture-backed symptoms of growing inequality and economic precarity for which the solution is stable, fulfilling employment is downright absurd. So no, self-driving cars are not the problem. The fact that so many people (between 1-2 million Americans) have become reliant on ridesharing as their principal source of income, often with few (if any) alternatives, is. The robot cars wouldn’t matter if other, better opportunities existed.

@Sherveen @provisionalidea People are going to want to see more jobs created, directly.

@philchacko @provisionalidea I'd do retraining programs, welfare + investment funds, redistributive taxes on displacing entities (ex. per-ride surcharge), and universal healthcare. I don't know about globalization having unpopular initiatives of the same kind, but if that's true, let's do better this time.

@Sherveen @provisionalidea What would you do about the "worker conditions and income dependence" side of the ledger? Globalization came with retraining programs and other redistribution tactics, but it doesn't seem those landed well politically. People want the dignity that comes with self-reliance?

@provisionalidea Look, everything you said is true, but the reason you see the left lash out against this and make bad arguments is because they don't see anyone else giving a shit about what you said re: worker conditions and income dependence. In other words, a bad problem = worse!

@kevinakwok There's something about an overly common communication pattern that triggers "this is spam" in the subconscious. Curious.

There’s something about most ai writing where the eyes glaze over. I dont fully understand what are the actual characteristics that cause it but it should be studied Most tech podcasts definitely have same thing* *not yours of course. Yours is so special and I love it

@michaelmiraflor “Member of the Operations Staff”

There are people with the title Chief of Staff that are basically just calendar organizers. There are also people with the title Chief of Staff who are essentially the most qualified people to take over a business should the CEO step down. Because they know every detail. Such an unpredictable title.

@marcrandolph The statistics on company formation and fundraises is quite contrary to this. SF has a ton of momentum. I do wonder if cost of living and inflation will put an upper limit on this, eventually. But it hasn't happened yet.

Here's the thing...a lot of what made relocating to Silicon Valley so necessary back in the day has mostly evaporated. Need a deep talent pool? The best developers are just as likely to be working from a cabin in Montana as from an overpriced rental house in San Francisco. Need to raise money? The 95% of the process that doesn’t involve in-person pitching is just as easy to do in Greenville, South Carolina. How about networking? It used to mean going to the right party or tech meetup; now it’s more likely to mean joining the right Discord or X thread. Don’t get me wrong—I loved the energy of Silicon Valley in those days of “irrational exuberance”. But I can also realize that it put up a high barrier for anyone who didn’t have the time, money, or flexibility to move there.

@goodside True but by the time I was in 5th grade I definitely watched Star Wars with an understanding of how primitive the VFX tools were at the time, and was amazed.

One day you’ll show a kid a Pixar movie and say, “They used computers but it’s not AI,” and they won’t understand what you mean.