Ben Levy

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Asked if I could get an invitation for Sora 2 and Ben happily obliged
Sent him a video I made for learning LoRA transformations and watched a few of his videos on Sora app
Asked how the beta launch was and he said it was good much better than GPT 5
First time being on-call will be next Tuesday the 8th

Messaged about finally getting his project win and not feeling like an idiot anymore
Project was the auth central routing via envoy gateway?

Spoke about his raven solution and how hes trying to remove his internal solution of “pomerium” and potentially contracting with tetrate to help them as it’ll be better than their internal solution supported by 5 devs

Funny to hear Jakd Bograd throwing Ben under the bus by saying enabling Cline & Roo was all Ben when SIR confronted him / LLM working group about Cline sending telemetry data

Met yesterday for dinner at Piccola, had the gnochhi that was their summer special off menu, which came with fish (cod?) and had their cabernet sauvignon
Ben had lasagna and a spirtz (?)
Spoke about Ben’s transition to Open AI and how he’s been struggling there.
He feels like the peoole around him are brilliant and as such hes just some “schlup”
Especially jarring as he was a local celebrity at Two Sigma
He confirmed he got $500k spot bonus
Spoke about potentially referring me to Kanman at HRT, and I asked him to wait until after the technical
Spoke about being recruited by DE & Shaw but they wait listed him even after he spent the entire night drinking with the recruiter
Ben believes the recruiter found out his information through Jay Goldberg who apparently may have been close with the recruiter and given him a bottle of wine
Ben had originally started looking externally beginning of 2024 when he felt like he’d never be tech lead with Bobby Lu on the same team as him
He received his C&C negative remark from Justine (Waiter) at the end of 2024