New business models come around very rarely. In the mean time, existing companies optimize everything they can relentlessly - that's why people own their stock.
Minion AI | Fullstack Eng, ML Eng, Tools Eng | SF or Remote | Full-time
Creator of GitHub Copilot here <wave>.
Minion AI is on a mission to build a useful web agent that performs tasks for you. Our personal AI is at the forefront of rethinking human-computer interaction in light of AI advancements.
Join us to work at the bleeding edge of AI: prompting, fine-tuning, synthetic data, learning by example, codegen, planning, reasoning, and memory for embodied agents.
Orilly? We had no PM, EM, or designer: I played all those roles for 1.5 years.
I was one of the first to touch the OAI code model. Me and Albert developed the in-the-wild testing harness still in use today. We pulled all nighters to get GitHub approved for participation in the MSFT-OpenAI deal using those test results.
Existing Microsoft AI teams worked to halt our work, pushing their own small, worse models instead of OpenAI's.
I protoyped and lobbied for creation of the VScode extension. I invented and hacked the ghost text prototype into VScode, I invented the block based termination and implemented all the tree-sitter based logic needed to do it. Then I had to lobby up to Satya to get VScode to implement proper support in less than 6 months.
I named it Copilot.
I implemented GH auth, made the waitlist and onboarding. Helped design the e2e http/2 go server, after designing the fast.ly based precursor. Coordinated moving from OpenAI datacenter to Azure to improve Asia experience, and oversaw the cutover.
I was Chief Architect. It was my baby. Sad if this is how they are spinning the story internally at GitHub today.
Minion.AI | Hardcore frontend hacker | SF or Remote | Full-time
I made GitHub Copilot. Now I'm making an AI assistant on the web. Today it can order pizza, answer questions about articles, toggle settings, fill out forms, buy plane tickets, etc.
I need someone who understands the web deeply to help on frontend and internal tooling.
Join us to work at the bleeding edge of AI: prompting, fine-tuning, synthetic data, learning by example, codegen, planning, reasoning, and memory for embodied agents.
I faffed around forever with lisp and bash and perl, never really getting it. Eventually I read one of these “Learn C++ in 30 Days” books and it just clicked.
Today I would recommend getting Copilot and just start typing :)
Lung cancer. I found a higher power, pray all the time, try to view all actions through that lens - of what my higher power would have me do. I’ve never been happier. I was an atheist previously.