This Ousterhout lecture lives in my brain (this one and the one about scar tissue).

"A Little Bit of Slope Makes Up For a Lot of Y-Intercept"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE98Is1quwY

> Pick a radical idea

> Build it over a weekend:

What AI has done is that we can do 10x more work a week, while only delivering 2x to production.

Right now, there are 4 people (and me) working on the same idea in 5 different ways - we're all training small language models, the goal is to get smaller or fewer active parameters.

By next week, we'll have lost on 3 different approaches. I know my approach is a dead-end already, but I'm not ready to give up till the pencils down.

The people I work with are great, because they will see the better solution by the end of it, whether they proposed it or someone else did.

A couple of them have been in the industry for less than 5 years and I feel like their slope is better than mine, which means I'm going to have a good time when they're fully up to speed :)

Thank you for that link. I started feeling rusty and needed something to shake off.

On a side note, I did founded my startup this year, and had that bug of doubt back of my head, but oh well…