Michael Liao

Traditional coding benchmarks do not reflect how software is actually built and maintained. That's why we built a new benchmark, APEX-SWE, in partnership with @cognition. It measures whether AI models can perform complex, real-world software engineering work to ship systems that work and debug them when they don't. @OpenAI GPT 5.3 Codex (High) tops the leaderboard at 41.5% on Pass@1.

@richzou @xai let’s go rich!

I just left @xai It was not an easy decision. The past three months were an absolute blast - I've been in many trenches in my life and can say this was by far one of the most intense warzones. I love fighting. Especially being in the trenches with my friends, working on problems that will actually advance humanity. But the current environment wasn't serving my growth. And that's a really hard thing to admit - I've always looked up to Elon, and I genuinely believe xAI will win. I still do. One thing I'll say: don't stay somewhere just because of the name. If you're unhappy, and you know you can't grow 100x where you are - it's the right call to leave. What's next? Get some sleep back. Then find the next trench worth fighting in. I'll always be meeting exceptional people - that was never because of a recruiting title. I just love finding smart people and helping however I can. Many more side quests to come!!!

i always thought that uoft was one of the best sources in terms of talent per $ since there are many very smart people that don’t get paid very well but it seems like uoft students are starting to do quite well nowadays

@dopabees yes but grade inflation in canada is also horrendous

waterloo requires a 98% avg to get in they have 2 yrs of co-op exp guaranteed and their entire curriculum is real SWE they have every right to be sought after

@bruce_wang15 @emilyhanyf @modal clearly u aren’t sick enough 🤨

@emilyhanyf @modal Super fun meeting everyone there!

sf needs more board game nights

Today, we're releasing our first version of the AI Consumer Index (ACE). ACE tests what people actually ask, and expect, AI to do for them in their personal life. From shopping for a gift to tackling home projects, people are turning to AI for recommendations and step-by-step guidance. ACE contains realistic and challenging evals, split across shopping, food, gaming, and DIY. The results show that models routinely fail on consumer tasks: - @OpenAI GPT 5 is the top model but scores only 56.1% overall. - No model scores over 50% on Shopping tasks, an opportunity worth $5+ trillion globally. - Frontier models frequently hallucinate web content they were supposed to retrieve, getting numbers or a link wrong between 29% to 62% of the time.

come say hi at NeurIPS!

come join mercor

maybe sf isn’t that bad

We’ve raised our $350M Series C at a $10B valuation from @felicis, @benchmark, and @generalcatalyst. Just 2 years after starting, Mercor is paying $1.5 million per day to experts in our marketplace. We’re creating a new category of work in the AI economy, where software engineers, bankers, lawyers, and other professionals earn based on their experience while advancing the frontier of AI. While most new categories take time to build momentum, we’ve broken every growth record. For comparison, in their first 2 years: - Uber paid out just over a $1 million to drivers - Airbnb paid out $10 million to hosts We are unlocking human potential in the AI economy.

today i learned im getting underpaid

@cynthwangg depends on what you want it’s still good for an above average corporate career for starting or running a company, probably not so much

just curious after seeing posts about the ex-McKinsey Starbucks CEO – is there still value in the 2-3 year MBB consulting path for new grads?

@melodyskim holy fuck thank you

i figured it out

CANT STOP BUMPING KNOCK2

one of the biggest red flags i see among startup founders is making a fundraise the biggest talking point vs. product/users/revenue raising a big seed round should never be the end goal

@ujustgotleid all the companies would just fail 💀

YC should make a Canadian branch

@ryanharaki_ @andocorporation @saradu let’s go ryan!!! 🐐🐐

life update: I’ve joined @andocorporation as a founding engineer! after spending the summer working on aisdk at Vercel, I was looking for the next ambitious problem to tackle. then I met @saradu and the team, and it just clicked

ichiko aoba u are the best

@ella_schlags you must really hate startup culture right now then

Nothing gives me the ick faster than performative entrepreneurship