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2026-03-04
- Discussed moving our 1:1 to next Tuesday for lunch time since he has an onsite tomorrow
- Hasn’t responded back yet to confirm
2026-03-03
- Discussed new email from CTO regarding org changes
- Main takeaway: “still no AI group”
- When pressed, said “it’ll be within EPE (Enterprise Platform Engineering)” which is his own group
- Asked to clarify if this was based on a source or gut feel - didn’t respond to that message
- Likely either a gut feeling or plans in motion he’d rather not disclose
- Found out he’s going on paternity leave in ~2 weeks
- Preparing to hand off to Aji Joseph (his manager), additionally because Allen Li will be leaving
2026-03-02
- Mentioned Allen Li is going to Anthropic - salaries there are 550k for Senior Eng, 880k for Staff Eng
2026-02-12
- chatted about comp
- Said this year felt like it was totally at manager’s discretion
- He’s at 1.1m and has 200k in PG’s
- At 700k??? Said 70% bump
- Allen Li got 70%
- Heard an L4 with few years here and a 4 that got high teens
2025-10-28
- Said to setup meeting with EPE regarding eval platform. I said no then agreed to be put as optional
2025-10-27
- Said Aji trying to swap for me
- Said tried to swap for Brahm and Justin Lintz but both were blocked by group heads
2025-09-25
- Got more details from Karl that MIG is apparently telling all managers to read 2 books a month and code between meetings
- Says potential ME reorg
- Told him about Sasha brought in to lead an engineering team and asked about Aji’s org navigation sense
2025-09-24
- Met up for lunch today at II Corallo
- Discussed workplace politics, told him about Maksim’s dress comments, Jesse’s poor behavior regarding last one to find out for BeakerX work, BeakerX deprecation, Pete Miron snake behavior, Jake Bograd weird behaviour
- Mentioned Jake is very well versed organizationlly and mentions how he really likes to area/group heads like DP
- Spoke about the really bleak situation in Fast and how even though there are modelers using Fast platforms they’re not creating Fast models so they’re not being attributed
- Mentioned fast models are short horizon models under 3 days and longer is considered non-fast models
- Thatcher left for Citadel
2025-09-23
- Was annoyed with Sasha asking irrelevant questions during Daneel Evals sync
- Knew some more details regarding Thatcher Clay leaving. Said officially he’s going to spend more time with kids is his reason. Unofficially Karl told him that Thatcher wanted to lead MARs as a whole and Christos said no as well as Eric Hawicz and Chris Zimman refused to report to him
- Mentioned he’s close with Karl Fu, someone who gives him a lot of information and that he’s leaving
- Said he knew of one person who accepted the counter offer when informing TS of leaving and that afterwards he’s had a “target on their back”