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Tom Ape @supTom37

Software engineer 🏗️ | Math 📐 Currently dedicated to building and exploring the potential of AI 🚀 Joined July 2025
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he is 26, skipped the phd route entirely, and already leads a mechanistic interpretability team at google deepmind. he helped build anthropic's research team early on and has mentored dozens of top researchers, but he talks about it all with this incredible, grounded humility. sometimes you hear a conversation that quietly resets how you look at your own work. today that was @NeelNanda5 for me. just writing down my biggest takeaways so i don't forget them: > He became a DeepMind team lead mostly by accident. The old lead quit, and he just said yes despite feeling unready. We gatekeep ourselves way more than the industry does. The downside of trying is almost always zero. > Stop treating AI like a search engine. He treats it like a chaotic coworker. He dictates hours of messy audio notes and uses "anti-sycophant" prompts. You literally have to tell the AI, "My friend wrote this, please brutally roast it," just to bypass the polite filters and get honest feedback. > We cold email the wrong people. Reaching out to famous founders or senior leads is usually a waste of time. Email the junior dev who got hired six months ago. They actually have free time, remember what it feels like to be an outsider, and actively want to mentor. > If you just need a task done, let AI write the code. But if your goal is to learn the underlying architecture, outsourcing it to AI ruins your understanding. Use it to build fast, but treat it as a strict tutor when you need to actually learn. > Research taste cannot be rushed. You can learn syntax in months, but the intuition for what makes a project actually valuable takes years. You have to train your brain like a neural net by doing a bunch of low-stakes, messy projects until the deeper intuition finally clicks. > The hidden cost of brilliant ideas. You can write the most elegant solution in the world, but if it requires tearing apart a massive, pre-existing tech stack, an organization will reject it. The best engineers write code that is frictionless for the rest of the team to accept. the biggest realization is just how much agency we actually have. you can just do things.

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