David Palaitis

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Asked to speak with him in person; spoke from 5:37pm to 6:47pm
Showed me a music program he built from custom software and how he turned Claude into the entry point of it
Recommended Google ADK and Google ADK UI to try out
Spoke about goals - he wants me to lead the agent evaluation and platform space
Discussed mono vs. multirepo: Xiaofan didn’t want to do monorepo because she’s not comfortable in it; he said that’s not a good answer
His reason for monorepo agent was to constrain the search space, which makes sense
I explained my reason to decouple was because hermetic environment guarantees go away when you go out of universe (i.e. beakerx and bamboo project) - he understood and deferred to me
Asked me to speak with Olof regarding some of the Xiaofan issues; said it’s been a while since I spoke with him
I said it’s because I’m trying to go through the management chain and alluded that Olof gave me a weird look when I was entering
Asked about Gabe going to London and how that happened; he said Gabe just asked and I could too if I wanted to go

Gave a talk at MOTO all hands, said how good of a job mcontext is doing but said my name last
Ran into him on the way down with Tanay; he gave us ‘finger guns’ and looked down, feeding into the awkwardness

Notice he’s on my meeting with Ashley at 12:30pm
I get spooked and message Ashley with messages saying Maksims confirmed and continuous be

Had a meeting in the morning where I let him know about Xiaofan and her insane behavior
Had a meeting at 3:20pm to 4 where he went over why he thought I deserved a “strong performer” (3) and then spent the time going over why as well as what to do next in regards to TC
Told about potential compensation bump is 30%
Said if it’s 10% then leave

Chatted on his way out at 5pm and spoke for half an hour
Says he’s since changed his mind regarding my potential open source extension and believes it should be external
Spoke about bbft and believes he could get it to 80% over a weekend in relation to hearing about Wil had done
When I mentioned my interest in fine-tuning he mentioned I should speak with Eric Allen who’s working on that now
Eric has a PhD in Machine Learning and was speaking about how initially he thought transformer architecture was a dead end and thought some other thing that was like reasoning/something would be the future and how he’s been humbled
DP says he was listening to empire of AI on audible over the weekend, 18 hours on 1.4x
DP says he’ll be meeting the Mistral folks with a bunch of other folks who are in a similar position to him
DP was going to have dinner with Eric Allen