# ![@john__allard Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1288679982999285761.png) @john__allard jhallard

jhallard posts on X about in the, agi, ai, open ai the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@coffeephoenix @jerryjliu0 @albfresco Accuracy for turbo fine timing was comparable to gpt4 or llama 2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1708522143527608507)  2023-10-01T16:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ctjlewis To be fair - whats the alternative You couldnt get to 1000x usage on AWS or gCloud either because youd run out of GPUs. Everyone has a gpu shortage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1710497995731382327)  2023-10-07T03:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"While OpenAI employees have always appreciated the significance of the mission the events of the last two days have emphasized just how rare and fragile this opportunity is. Should we get a 2nd chance were coming back more energized focused and united than ever. Watch out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1726144049940435108)  2023-11-19T07:43Z [---] followers, 46.2K engagements


"OpenAI is nothing without its people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1726546285212405972)  2023-11-20T10:21Z [---] followers, 13.8K engagements


"@DavidSacks If anythings become clear from the last few years its that the only way any org will make progress towards AGI is through maniacal focus and ruthless prioritization. No potato canons at OpenAI. We succeed because its our mission"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1727461513190137858)  2023-11-22T22:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@DeveloperHarris @DNAutics You can do a staged handshake where an http request opens a channel using traditional auth and returns a one-time-use token that can be used to subsequently connect on the channel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1729257633797054972)  2023-11-27T21:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"#opentowork pfp tag is the green text-bubble of the LinkedIn world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1753219508469375024)  2024-02-02T00:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Clicking a link that should open a different app only to get stuck in embedded browser purgatory"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1753876059010035739)  2024-02-03T20:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"How is this not solved yet I click on a GitHub link from Slack and it opens an embedded browser. I then click options open in system browser and it opens in mobile chrome. Why not the GitHub app"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1753876289486979285)  2024-02-03T20:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@dwarkesh_sp @TrentonBricken @_sholtodouglas Entirety forgot about the myriad of other things I had planned for today and instead spent my Saturday morning listening to this. Great stuff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1774212850581725620)  2024-03-30T23:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@adelatif116 @OpenAI dm me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1775970221662355610)  2024-04-04T19:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The first thing that struck me about London is that there are cranes everywhere How does this liberal densely populated absurdly historic city manage to yimby itself leagues beyond SF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1789435792588152881)  2024-05-11T23:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Proteus29293046 @eshear @Plinz Self is not another word for ego not in common mind/body philosophy parlance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1791580459530420661)  2024-05-17T21:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@nivi Awesome display of the Zealots corner. Really just cut across like [--] different disciplines of science and philosophy in your conviction incredible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1792570989806526769)  2024-05-20T15:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Biggest tell that someone is entirely off plot is they fail to define terms for consciousness sentience intelligence etc. This would be something of a forcing function to realize things are a bit more complex than they acknowledge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1794799271830773837)  2024-05-26T18:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"To be clear I dont think todays LLMs are sentient Ive just failed to see any AI thought leader argue that coherently from a philosophy-of-consciousness pov"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1794800145714069983)  2024-05-26T18:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@AnishTondwalkar You can kind of track the flawed reasoning: ML expert - AI expert - expert on intelligence - conflating intelligence with consciousness - I must know something about consciousness"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1794816946028020022)  2024-05-26T19:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@pronounced_kyle Technologies cant eliminate poverty *gestures broadly at everything*"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1795338229031567586)  2024-05-28T06:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"is there a plausible alternative history where the US nationalizes the oil wealth around the early 20th century and it doesn't turn out disastrously Could norway only do this with a vantage point from the 1960s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1802467645104771540)  2024-06-16T22:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Seems like norway could only pull this off due to their strong institutions a history of relative poverty and 60+ years of seeing the type of wealth that discovering large oil deposits could bring. Without those elements you just don't get the push for (quasi) nationalization"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1802468574688407694)  2024-06-16T22:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@skalskip92 @OpenAI @skalskip92 can you DM me I can help look into things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1841607922985664982)  2024-10-02T22:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@j_mcgraph @Noahpinion @SwannMarcus89 I guess it depends on the specifics of outside the first island chain. If were talking second island chain (Guam) then theres something of a war if were talking Alaskan Peninsula then theres definitely not one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1843432786780410242)  2024-10-07T23:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I've gotten more questions and compliments on the jacket than anything else today It's a grail of mine but you won't be able to find it easily. It's a release of the Maritime wool overshirt from @TaylorStitch from a few years back you can find their current iterations here https://www.taylorstitch.com/collections/the-maritime-shirt https://www.taylorstitch.com/collections/the-maritime-shirt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1865161653765181935)  2024-12-06T22:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"This election made it clear that the primary political axis had tilted and things were wildly out of equilibrium destined for a correction (emerging political factions this dominant are inherently unstable). The h1b/o1 immigration discourse seems like the initial throes of this re-stabilization the tech-right / new-right realizing theyre not actually as aligned as they seemed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1872012550248018414)  2024-12-25T20:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Were beginning to see cracks on the Right that open space for a new Left to assert itself along this updated political axis. The Left now has the unifying advantage of a common enemy and the freedom that comes with not being in powereasier to promise than to govern. Interesting times ahead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1872016065469034740)  2024-12-25T20:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"MSL researchers clocking in another late night in the superintelligence mines"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1958599604779590074)  2025-08-21T18:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"When Salesforce talks about agents and AI features https://www.youtube.com/watchv=9ntPxdWAWq8 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=9ntPxdWAWq8"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1963688728284803240)  2025-09-04T19:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A while back I started a medication w/ intense side effects and mentioned it to chat. [--] days later pulse alerted me to a newly published study showing that high-dose B12 materially helped mitigate those side effects. I probably would never have come across this on my own. Now in preview: ChatGPT Pulse This is a new experience where ChatGPT can proactively deliver personalized daily updates from your chats feedback and connected apps like your calendar. Rolling out to Pro users on mobile today. https://t.co/tWqdUIjNn3 Now in preview: ChatGPT Pulse This is a new experience where ChatGPT can"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1971270034665226360)  2025-09-25T17:46Z [----] followers, 98.9K engagements


"Few things are more aura-depleting than slowly chasing a Waymo down the block because it pretended to stop in front of you before crawling away slowly to look for a better pickup spot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1978931440738763111)  2025-10-16T21:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"been really appreciating @steve_vladeck's analysis and tracking of ongoing supreme court cases over on substack https://substack.com/home/post/p-176913365 https://substack.com/home/post/p-176913365"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1981838415336448154)  2025-10-24T21:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"few things will test your sense of equanimity like being stuck for [--] mins behind a 3mph conga line of Tibetan Buddhists while crossing the GG bridge (celebrating the Dalai Lamas 90th bday or something)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1987260017859530983)  2025-11-08T20:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I often get more value out of the 2nd read than the 1st and 3rd and 4th reads (years later) still yield great value higher EV than picking up a new book often (also this applies only to fiction)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1988049351558484175)  2025-11-11T01:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"currently rereading The Quantum Evolution series by @DerekKunsken for the 3rd time couldn't be enjoying it more. Probably the most impressive use of time travel as a plot device I've encountered in any media. I've also reread Hyperion yearly for the last [--] years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1988050354953658487)  2025-11-11T01:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@DerekKunsken Couldn't be happier to hear the series is continuing to expand Also glad to learn you're a Hyperion fan I'll look out for inspiration from the Shrike Pilgrims (or Gladstone) in your characters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1988090449010323597)  2025-11-11T03:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@DerekKunsken I actually just realized how much of the end sequence of Quantum Garden is similar to scenes near the end of Fall of Hyperion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1988094128958366052)  2025-11-11T03:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"As the Chief Glazing Officer at xAI I stand proud that our work turning Grok into the SOTA glazing model is being so widely recognized. Elon made it clear from the very founding of xAI that his Elon Glazing Org (E.G.O) was *the* top priority of this frontier research lab and we have unhesitatingly pulled resources from other departments (safety red-teaming enterprise readiness etc) in order to bring SOTA Elon sycophancy to market in record time. As much as it pains our E.G.O. to admit we couldnt have accomplished this alone. By carefully benchmarking against the North Korean 11-hole-in-one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1991636626355941504)  2025-11-20T22:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"As the Chief Glazing Officer at xAI I stand proud that our work turning Grok into the SOTA glazing model is being so widely recognized. Elon made it clear from the founding of xAI that his Elon Glazing Org (E.G.O) was *the* top priority of this frontier lab and we have unhesitatingly pulled resources from things like safety red-teaming and enterprise readiness in order to bring industrial-grade Elon sycophancy to market in record time. Getting here required a thorough examination of the glazing giants of history benchmarking against the North Korean 11-hole-in-one golf cluster the Maoist red"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1991642733606506959)  2025-11-20T23:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Noahpinion imo patriotism is more closely aligned with love of country and commitment to making it a better place rather than objective ranked-list assessment of its current greatness I love the US but would hesitate to say it's unequivocally the best country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1991708776882418138)  2025-11-21T03:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"agentic coding startups being asked to thoroughly evaluate new models from frontier labs each week Introducing Claude Opus 4.5: the best model in the world for coding agents and computer use. Opus [---] is a step forward in what AI systems can do and a preview of larger changes to how work gets done. https://t.co/mid2Z1qzIf Introducing Claude Opus 4.5: the best model in the world for coding agents and computer use. Opus [---] is a step forward in what AI systems can do and a preview of larger changes to how work gets done. https://t.co/mid2Z1qzIf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1993043556412670465)  2025-11-24T19:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"just a few more symbols bro pleeaaassee I promise gofai is going to generalize our ruleset is almost comprehensive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1994617266512826771)  2025-11-29T03:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"something about eating a cinnamon roll makes me feel like a dumbass"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1998185250388910091)  2025-12-09T00:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@MenchOsint hypersonics really aren't game changers. they compress the decision window on the receiving side and reduce the area of uncertainty on the sending side but it's a marginal improvement over existing LRASMs and not a step change"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/2003223260121764072)  2025-12-22T21:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"the starkest realization I had on a weeklong retreat was that 25%+ of my mental chatter was just replaying various memes on repeat. my hunch is that we're only barely becoming aware of the importance of heavily curating one's information diet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/2006569858683556203)  2026-01-01T03:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@DanielDayJewish thinking in memes isn't inherently bad what surprised me was how unaware I was of which memes I was preoccupied with. They were going unnoticed in my day-to-day and only on retreat did I notice random movie scenes twitter one-liners etc that occupied so much of my mental space"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/2006570911194034265)  2026-01-01T03:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"lmk if Im missing something: - buy $3M house in cash - $3M could make 4% is now not producing anything (-$120k) - House has upkeep of 2%+ w/ prop tax insurance and upkeep (-$60k -$180k total) - You save $80-100k/year on rent (-$100k total) So youre down $100k/year compared to renting + investing Of course you have the house which goes up in value but likely not $100k/year consistently"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/2012291469772735029)  2026-01-16T22:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"1. Mortgage rates are 6.5% you can make more than that on investments but youre not guaranteed to make much more (mortgage payments are tax deductible which changes the dynamics here a bit) [--]. I was giving $8-10k/month in rent allowance which is already quite a bit. luxury houses can be more than that but Im def not short-changing the rental side by too much in this equation (luxury houses also cost a lot more than $3M in the Bay Area for example) [--]. Rent control actually makes renting very predictable in the Bay Area while everyone I know with a house has random $50-$100k charges pop up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/2012315421794357729)  2026-01-17T00:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@sherwinwu I was trying to illustrate a case that was most generous towards home buying (avoiding 6.5% mortgage interest by buying w/ cash). Seems like the advantage hinges on how confident you are you can beat the mortgage rate (minus tax deductions) by keeping your money in the market"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/2012361723424973199)  2026-01-17T03:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Is this happening consistently or only for certain prompts Reasoning models are well calibrated now and may respond quickly (minimal reasoning) for simple prompts and ChatGPT only renders the "reasoning" UX if the model reasons beyond a threshold. That can make it look like an "instant" response even if it's not. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013707428622409821 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013707428622409821"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/2013707428622409821)  2026-01-20T20:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"the AI paper backlog can wait anon. spend your short xmas break reading the DoD's official [----] report on recent PRC military and defense developments instead https://media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/23/2003849070/-1/-1/1/ANNUAL-REPORT-TO-CONGRESS-MILITARY-AND-SECURITY-DEVELOPMENTS-INVOLVING-THE-PEOPLES-REPUBLIC-OF-CHINA-2025.PDF https://media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/23/2003849070/-1/-1/1/ANNUAL-REPORT-TO-CONGRESS-MILITARY-AND-SECURITY-DEVELOPMENTS-INVOLVING-THE-PEOPLES-REPUBLIC-OF-CHINA-2025.PDF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/2003629447585624382)  2025-12-24T00:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"gastown is templeos for the age of llm psychosis (based)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/2011652999635222975)  2026-01-15T04:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"where Europeans finally learn about the concept of private equity the world is really going to suck"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/2018097966016516229)  2026-02-01T23:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@jaketropolis @SandyofCthulhu its not even a near term goal of PLN to be able to defeat the USN in blue water competition just to control the first island chain and A2AD efforts. China will out-produce (especially w/ failed CCG/FFG + our stupid battleship) but PLN isnt even attempting to compete globally"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/2019945745579995602)  2026-02-07T01:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@shiraeis @kalomaze not my area of expertise but Im like 99.9% sure you can get 2.5x speed up from smaller batch sizes. The xput/latency curve can easily accommodate that spread and charging 6x per token aligns with my intuitions. Heres a reference chart that shows as much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/2020290268214489290)  2026-02-08T00:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@shiraeis @kalomaze Here youre going from [--] to [---] seconds (halving latency) but dropping token throughput by 80%+ which aligns with the price increase. No inference magic needed just a config and routing change"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/2020290772663423139)  2026-02-08T00:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Remix636 @matthewdoyle796 @realDonaldTrump Ah yes all of those bearded middle-aged white men are core Antifa members"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1346929818139414530)  2021-01-06T21:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@agazdecki So did every non-billion dollar start up that failed of which there are many more than the ones that succeeded. Also know when to give up and move on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1487679379756838915)  2022-01-30T06:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@IvanInTech @MubarratC lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1532453021619105793)  2022-06-02T20:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@canderaid Even better - it was only nominally 5.6% of the budget. A lot of that was the book value of equipment that was sitting in storage and would never be used again e.g. M113s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1672493190585147392)  2023-06-24T06:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@canalCCore2 @fchollet the number of folks who have even the vaguest idea that LlaMa exists is entirely negligible compared the volume of search traffic for ChatGPT (and Minecraft). The number who have even tried to run LlaMa applications would be much smaller"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1672672139504402433)  2023-06-24T18:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@nearcyan I didn't mean to put the blog post author on blast he's actually well-versed in ML (more so than I) and he did this as a little side experiment not expecting real results. I thought it served as a funny and understandable example that's all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1722165428301304149)  2023-11-08T08:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@nptacek @sama Confirmed. And most of us had put off vacations for extended periods in the lead up through DevDay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1726757580759068799)  2023-11-21T00:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Light cone ever so slightly narrowed agi delayed four days agi delayed four days"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1727237264634437740)  2023-11-22T08:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@bindureddy Most of this saga took place on the weekend and googlers dont work on weekends"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1727377568956121422)  2023-11-22T17:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"were going to midwit our way to AGI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1728138253918724117)  2023-11-24T19:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Trying to explain the subtleties of the hedonic treadmill to my dog while preparing to give her a new type of high-value treat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1745867790903574861)  2024-01-12T17:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"There is [--] company cool interesting and important enough to keep me from leaving SF for gundo defense tech and Im lucky enough to work there #grateful its been a difficult week https://t.co/YkyuTNvEbA its been a difficult week https://t.co/YkyuTNvEbA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1759008189864161791)  2024-02-18T00:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@_jasonwei buying your own tartine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1760114786631872597)  2024-02-21T01:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"we actually have awesome research code fwiw this is more of a general observation across my career at AI companies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1782236961513845191)  2024-04-22T02:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@daydreamer1027 @StatisticUrban Very relieved this kind of take is going out of style"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1784814881864372285)  2024-04-29T05:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@cooldrugfact_s that sounds like your average afternoon for the millions of opiate addicts in the US. again there are no lsd narco states regardless of your anecdotes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1794221448636338559)  2024-05-25T04:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Weird how many folks in AI to think that studying linear algebra and stats somehow enables you to sidestep millennia of philosophical and scientific discourse on consciousness before making bold claims at the frontier of the field Is AI sentient My friend and colleague Prof. John Etchemendy a renowned professor and co-Director of @StanfordHAI just co-authored this piece to debunk the claim that todays LLMs are sentient @TIME https://t.co/3fAsQ8GVli Is AI sentient My friend and colleague Prof. John Etchemendy a renowned professor and co-Director of @StanfordHAI just co-authored this piece to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1794799021548298391)  2024-05-26T18:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Were actually living in a golden era of consciousness science youre just not going to find good work from either strict philosophers or AI researchers. The best work is interdisciplinary building off of contemporary neuro/cog-sci while acknowledging recent ML advancements and the rich history of mind/body philosophy. @anilkseth @Mark_Solms @Plinz @drmichaellevin Thomas Metzinger - these are some of the folks advancing the field Weird how many folks in AI to think that studying linear algebra and stats somehow enables you to sidestep millennia of philosophical and scientific discourse on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1794840997597450680)  2024-05-26T21:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"watched like [--] hours of anime and Im this 🤏 close to swapping to an anime pfp (lain wired in)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1804178797245399066)  2024-06-21T15:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@aidan_mclau @stevenheidel Will have details available soon but we think fine-tuning customers will be *extremely* pleased with this offering"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1813987488819822967)  2024-07-18T17:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@stevenheidel and folks say we don't expose enough hyperparams 🙄"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1823509946623046001)  2024-08-14T00:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@aidan_mclau I actually think A Deepness Upon The Sky is a much better novel with much better aliens but maybe less relevant to singularity-adjacent topics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1837554973623951374)  2024-09-21T18:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Speaking at noon - let me know if you want to chat about fine-tuning or model customization more broadly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1841173262577123613)  2024-10-01T17:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"absolutely rippin some barrel-aged laobanzhang. Chinese tea culture is criminally under appreciated in the US"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1845955726357025098)  2024-10-14T22:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"if you're not listening to Ennio Morricone how locked in can you be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1850398833525547173)  2024-10-27T04:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@trickylabyrinth Easily HHHs guide to nuclear weapons https://youtu.be/QHL2nTFPdpg https://youtu.be/QHL2nTFPdpg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1851620600847929462)  2024-10-30T13:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Wandering the louvre w/ advanced voice mode is a magical experience. See an interesting exhibit spend a minute practicing my pronunciation of the title/description get an accurate translation then jump into a nuanced discussion on the piece and relevant historical context"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1853581653865623957)  2024-11-04T23:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@NickADobos Hey @NickADobos I'm a technical lead on OpenAI's fine-tuning team and can give my perspective. LLM Fine-tuning really shines in two scenarios: distillation and pushing the frontier with proprietary data. (1/3)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1865142213690478869)  2024-12-06T21:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"you claim to be sad and yet you're not listening to this 80's/90's j-pop playlist. curious https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0nz3cRJG7ZdCzdWQmIPp56si=e80535d25f744bea https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0nz3cRJG7ZdCzdWQmIPp56si=e80535d25f744bea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2016610784005222878)  2026-01-28T20:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"there are only two acceptable ways to spend time on airplanes: [--]. gluttonous guilt-free consumption of movies [--]. hawk-eyed monitoring of the geographic situation outside the window creating shareholder value is not on this list If you enjoy working on airplanes give your real name to baristas or are part of a family groupchat I respect you but we are fundamentally different subspecies of person and I need you to understand that as well as I do when youre talking to me. If you enjoy working on airplanes give your real name to baristas or are part of a family groupchat I respect you but we are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2016717882689016280)  2026-01-29T03:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"RT @jaketropolis: "Do you want it sliced or tavern cut" "Sykes-Picot please.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2016761365130858646)  2026-01-29T06:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"glen canyon dam is an aesthetic and ecological tragedy and AGI will insist upon its destruction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2018035814287241629)  2026-02-01T18:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"future generations will not be kind to millennials for the havoc we have wreaked on classic americana housing stock Ive seen things done to 100+ year old berkeley craftsmans that still haunt my dreams the internet told her shed regret this https://t.co/pt6izK7SsD the internet told her shed regret this https://t.co/pt6izK7SsD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2018048648333152758)  2026-02-01T19:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"TIL that waymos honk at drivers they think are merging into them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2018742015727652936)  2026-02-03T17:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"$20 for garlic greenbeans seems universal nowadays when did restaurants start charging cocktail margins for vegetables"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019967411613757620)  2026-02-07T02:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"was in a crowded sauna recently and one jovial fella pulled out a jar full of cold celery which he proceeded to share with the rest of us. I don't normally think of the sauna as a snacking location but the cold celery was actually incredible. cold melon might hit similarly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2020623392802791460)  2026-02-08T22:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"in your kitchen silently judging your salt collection"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022027630061756643)  2026-02-12T19:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"33 year old guy who still waves at firefighters its me Im guy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022394974034366721)  2026-02-13T19:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"this is where mistral trains their models"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022581932232753208)  2026-02-14T08:01Z [----] followers, 128.6K engagements


"The Fighting Temeraire (Turner 1838) poignant depiction of the complexity of progress as relevant as ever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023946017582755936)  2026-02-18T02:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"working from a 3rd wave coffee shop serving excellent $7 flat whites that doubles as a gun range. Spacious converted-industrial-loft style single-origin shots from a commerical la marzocco 80's pop hits on the speakers. interspersed with slightly muffled [----] fire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1995599401830719712)  2025-12-01T21:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@coldhealing The amount of engineers upset at this as if they don't wake up [--] mins before their first meeting and spend half the day in sweatpants doomscrolling from bed. These PMs are half-working just like you they just do it better"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1533957248589828096)  2022-06-06T23:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@jameslavish Thats not how supply/demand curves work lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1533968323582382080)  2022-06-07T00:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@TheAgeofShoddy This is same argument thats been used every time any attempt at reducing pollution or advocating for sustainable techniques has been made since the invention of the EPA. How will business possibly continue if we cant dump refuse in the nearby river Yet here we are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1566967360581681152)  2022-09-06T01:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@nearcyan I had the same idea but for $MSFT since they have the OpenAI investment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1606077745804427264)  2022-12-23T00:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@mattturck https://dagster.io/blog/fake-stars https://dagster.io/blog/fake-stars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1647681574840983552)  2023-04-16T19:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@DanielJLosey @entirelyuseles no it could not. You genuinely have no frame of reference"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1672149728484798464)  2023-06-23T07:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@sama Literally every OAI employee is in this thread"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1726108138028589130)  2023-11-19T05:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Will forever regret not crouching [--] inches lower 🫡 we are so back https://t.co/YcKwkqdNs5 we are so back https://t.co/YcKwkqdNs5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1727234680368558507)  2023-11-22T07:56Z [----] followers, 36.8K engagements


"@QuantumDamian @Shahules786 Hey author of the slide and engineer on the fine-tuning product team at OpenAI here. Theoretically it's of course possible to add new knowledge to a model via fine-tuning but practically it's very difficult to do (cont)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1748140239238181147)  2024-01-19T00:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"yeah I have a humiliation fetish (riding rental e-scooters in public)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1756769445912199311)  2024-02-11T19:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@growing_daniel this is now the most popular tweet on OAIs holiday weekend slack congrats"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1759123236934279212)  2024-02-18T07:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@growing_daniel hello to any snorkelers come across this hope all is well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1759295655305183532)  2024-02-18T19:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"even arrakis got high speed rail before california smh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1763514477482569809)  2024-03-01T10:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@fred_mcnulty @GaryWinslett NYC is generally already more dense than what is provided by these"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1779649222981361989)  2024-04-14T23:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"SWEs wandering into the /research directory of jupyter notebooks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1782228054842187936)  2024-04-22T02:00Z [----] followers, 27.5K engagements


"@j_mcgraph Its not dependency mismanagement its a strategy for mitigating AI fast takeoff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1782242973423673524)  2024-04-22T03:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@KenjiCapital I would pay much more than $19 and spend much more than [--] extra hour to avoid ever going to LAX"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1782825725059629379)  2024-04-23T17:35Z [----] followers, 11.2K engagements


"@tobi Its all context dependent. At startups its much more important to get software shipped and then optimize what actually sticks rather than spending time optimizing software that may never be used. Very different in mature product environments where software half life is long"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1787151895200432340)  2024-05-05T16:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"People who dont hand-squeegee the bulk of the water off of themselves after a shower arent to be taken seriously"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1789377244776796566)  2024-05-11T19:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"does any city punch further below its weight class than San Jose 13th in the US by population but punches somewhere between Boise and Virginia Beach on the scale of cultural relevance. Really good food though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1789585393915969789)  2024-05-12T09:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@cooldrugfact_s its honestly not that profitable margin doesnt mean much when volume is low. real money is and always has been in addictive drugs its why the cartel is moving meth and not mushrooms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1794096099558392164)  2024-05-24T20:00Z [----] followers, 15.5K engagements


"all of the best bug fixes are at most 1-line changes. a surprising number of the best bug fixes are single-character changes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1799145319793565896)  2024-06-07T18:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@kwick2k @RobertKennedyJr Russia is conducting the largest land war in Europe since wwII *literally right now*"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1802210079581864343)  2024-06-16T05:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"So confident you'll like 4o-mini fine-tuning we'll let you train for free for the next [--] months https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning Customize GPT-4o mini for your application with fine-tuning. Available today to tier [--] and [--] users we plan to gradually expand access to all tiers. First 2M training tokens a day are free through Sept [--]. https://t.co/uHeVKFgRlr https://t.co/ZAzBF6fL5Z https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning Customize GPT-4o mini for your application with fine-tuning. Available today to tier [--] and [--] users we plan to gradually expand access to all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1815837281204466069)  2024-07-23T19:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@OfficialLoganK @GoogleAI congrats on the fine-tuning launch That API looks familiar ;)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1821605887506788740)  2024-08-08T17:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@aidan_mclau I think I found the prolonged childrens perspective to be annoying Sherkaner Underhill being an Alan Turing / Leibniz / Shannon / arachnid hybrid was much more interesting. The diversity of civilizations in the middle and upper beyond were awesome though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1837640744116670784)  2024-09-21T23:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"guy who spent a very moving [--] hours immersed in the beauty and meaning of Perfect Days and follows it up with a doom scrolling dopamine binge that would make Elvis blush"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1837644004546302122)  2024-09-22T00:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Is that Portola I hear How are they still this loud at 10:30pm on a Sunday Oh shit. Im like old old"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1840623810971861257)  2024-09-30T05:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I was today years old when I learned the Wisconsin air national guard has [--] F-35s. Thats more 5th gen firepower than all of Russia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1842421725281284496)  2024-10-05T04:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Noahpinion @SwannMarcus89 Depends on where the war is (obviously) if its anywhere outside of the first island chain then theres [--] chance but within that island chain the probability varies significantly depending on the details"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1843368296575562190)  2024-10-07T19:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Our founding fathers wouldnt recognize the America we live in today Ben Franklin watching an F22 thrust vector its way out of a flat spin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1845620429668651477)  2024-10-14T00:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Cat paintings: Middle Kingdom Egypt (1800BCE) vs Medieval Europe (1200AD)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1850917786601525689)  2024-10-28T15:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I basically stayed on a call with ChatGPT the entire visit. Language tutor translator museum guide and historian all rolled into an always-on personal assistant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1853581908430434625)  2024-11-04T23:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@swyx This works best (by far) by extending the reasoning powers of our existing reasoning models (o1-series). It helps if the model already knows how to reason coherently we just extend that reasoning into new domains"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1865127134685204945)  2024-12-06T20:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Next while it's true that base models will continue to progress they do not tend to progress equally fast across the entire frontier of knowledge. MMLU GSM8K etc are great benchmarks but they rarely fully represent the types of tasks that actually deliver value to enterprises or researchers. When you combine frontier models with proprietary data (proprietary techniques reasoning business practices etc) you end up with a model that is SOTA in the domains that you actually care about and you can also end up with a model that is differentiated compared to your competitors. (3/3)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1865143154921607675)  2024-12-06T21:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"re: list of graders given this is an alpha we do not have public documentation I can share widely at this point. However I'm happy to give an overview here. At a high-level we think lots of complex grading problems can be built-up by combining simpler grading problems in simple ways. We're also starting this product by focusing on graders that work deterministically and on well-defined structures (i.e. not trying to grade "creativity" or "vibes" on arbitrary text). This means that most of our graders assume the model is outputting JSON and that you want to compare the output JSON to some"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1865520756559614090)  2024-12-07T22:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The most stressful place to be imo is following AI closely enough to grok the advancements but not be able to impact them. The DALLE2 release sent me on an existential spiral that only ended when I resolved to find a way to work at OpenAI. Its a bit less dizzying to be inside like the eye of the storm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1870632571442549203)  2024-12-22T00:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"carbon offsets but it's a donation to domestic drone development programs to offset indirect contributions to the PLA budget via the purchase of DJI equipment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021733665521459311)  2026-02-11T23:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Supreme_Owl_FTW @bradneuberg What When people talk about Microsofts turnaround theyre talking about Azure enterprise cloud embracing Linux and OSS and acquisitions like GH. Theyre not talking about Windows UX"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1680495822939770881)  2023-07-16T08:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@nearcyan Glad you enjoyed the slide We got a kick out of this internally"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1722091773642867110)  2023-11-08T03:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@PatrickJBlum I think theres a good Mike Ehrmantraut /we had a good thing going . you and your pride and your ego meme in here somewhere that Im too lazy to make"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1726364488524501381)  2023-11-19T22:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The first OpenAI employee to stop working before 1am. Extremely bearish Today I got a call inviting me to consider a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to become the interim CEO of @OpenAI. After consulting with my family and reflecting on it for just a few hours I accepted. I had recently resigned from my role as CEO of Twitch due to the birth of my Today I got a call inviting me to consider a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to become the interim CEO of @OpenAI. After consulting with my family and reflecting on it for just a few hours I accepted. I had recently resigned from my role as CEO of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1726531215715672470)  2023-11-20T09:21Z [----] followers, 153.9K engagements


"@simonw It is surprisingly hard to coordinate with [---] people in the middle of night while entering what was supposed to be the first true break in months"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1726657027924238633)  2023-11-20T17:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@ashleevance Some employees are hard offline (in the wilderness pat/mat leave) otherwise that list would be basically 100%. Unity has been achieved"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1726660642399305957)  2023-11-20T17:55Z [----] followers, 58.7K engagements


"king shit Emmett - hmu for free api credits I am deeply pleased by this result after [--] very intense hours of work. Coming into OpenAI I wasnt sure what the right path would be. This was the pathway that maximized safety alongside doing right by all stakeholders involved. Im glad to have been a part of the solution. I am deeply pleased by this result after [--] very intense hours of work. Coming into OpenAI I wasnt sure what the right path would be. This was the pathway that maximized safety alongside doing right by all stakeholders involved. Im glad to have been a part of the solution"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1727274257544290767)  2023-11-22T10:34Z [----] followers, 36.6K engagements


"looking for the tea nerd part of twitter. and not that British high tea bourgeois nonsense I want puerh junkies and yixing degens. where are my people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1728914795079053701)  2023-11-26T23:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Looking through the plane window is one of the great joys in life and youve become embarrassingly acclimated to the luxuries of the modern world if you cant appreciate it anymore. I flew over the Sierra this morning and it was amazing (photos) Southern Utah is other worldly @WKCosmo Are you like [--] Have you never see out a plane window . Like [---] people are trying to keep it dark and you see the [--] person not @WKCosmo Are you like [--] Have you never see out a plane window . Like [---] people are trying to keep it dark and you see the [--] person not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1729221983093551232)  2023-11-27T19:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@___frye Patience https://x.com/thekitze/status/1754220697415549202s=20 we're in this era of vision pro. wait for it. https://t.co/MxYt0IAFYW https://x.com/thekitze/status/1754220697415549202s=20 we're in this era of vision pro. wait for it. https://t.co/MxYt0IAFYW"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1754258240316338453)  2024-02-04T21:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@OfficialLoganK @OpenAI I remember all the help you gave during the fine-tuning API review sessions and the product today is better due to your feedback and customer advocacy. Best of luck on whatever comes next Don't be a stranger"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1763763737838977297)  2024-03-02T03:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"people complain about food quality in the US but things have improved a ton since the 90s. iirc most 90s households used iodized salt pre-ground pepper margarine etc. olive oil wasnt really a thing and the only hot sauce was tabasco. dark times"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1782224642603962651)  2024-04-22T01:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Full bidirectional audio is a game changer. its magical in a way that the demos have failed to fully convey. Easily as big of a UX improvement as the original debut of ChatGPT itself. AGI is going to to be sick"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1790124139216257054)  2024-05-13T20:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Wetla_nds @ZeGuru69 @cooldrugfact_s entire narco states exist off the profits from meth and cocaine you cant say the same for lsd. theyre just objectively not even in the same ballpark of profitability. doesnt matter if you make 10000% markup on your lemonade stand if youre only selling [--] cups a day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1794110431511904480)  2024-05-24T20:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@nichosystem @algekalipso what does it actually mean to say that it "felt like years" Is it an abstract sense of a lot of time having passed by the end of the experience or did you actually feels the time pass directly in a sum-over-moments way Is it a narrative thing or phenomenological"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1802456293162336489)  2024-06-16T21:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@corbtt Thanks for the quick turnaround on evals The performance drop on data extraction is very surprising and doesn't match similar internal evals we're running against the prod service. Looking into this now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1815901369037119718)  2024-07-24T00:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"congrats to this great team I'm excited to share that we've built the world's most capable AI software engineer achieving 30.08% on SWE-Bench ahead of Amazon and Cognition. This model is so much more than a benchmark score: it was trained from the start to think and behave like a human SWE. https://t.co/OyvqKLxcGV I'm excited to share that we've built the world's most capable AI software engineer achieving 30.08% on SWE-Bench ahead of Amazon and Cognition. This model is so much more than a benchmark score: it was trained from the start to think and behave like a human SWE."  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1823027073667170633)  2024-08-12T16:01Z [----] followers, 24.7K engagements


"go forth and push the intelligence frontier We're launching fine-tuning for GPT-4o so you can improve performance and accuracy for your apps. https://t.co/U106c1Svxq We're launching fine-tuning for GPT-4o so you can improve performance and accuracy for your apps. https://t.co/U106c1Svxq"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1825938757348110389)  2024-08-20T16:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"everything amazing and unique about San Francisco is on display in Golden Gate Park on a nice weekend day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1830369364333506838)  2024-09-01T22:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@KKriegeBlog I would be very surprised if more than 10% of Americans could tell you the difference between the Roman republic and Roman Empire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1836450080485970189)  2024-09-18T16:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Andercot @anduriltech @SpaceX [--]. this seems insanely destabilizing in the short term [--]. dont hypersonic glide vehicles get around this wed end up back in a somewhat less stable equilibrium after a super expensive arms race"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1837269325725716816)  2024-09-20T23:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I have significantly underappreciated how much A/C has contributed to human productivity gains"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1843005208177393968)  2024-10-06T19:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"having a borderline religious experience in the butter aisle of this French grocery"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1854840665571504209)  2024-11-08T10:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I really enjoyed giving an early look at our new Reinforcement Fine-Tuning product. The idea that anyone can leverage the same training algorithms and infra we use to create our o1 models and craft expert models in new domains is super exciting. Learn more https://openai.com/form/rft-research-program/ https://openai.com/form/rft-research-program/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1865120101810475503)  2024-12-06T19:44Z [----] followers, 14K engagements


"@swyx Great questions In order for RFT to work the model has to have some relevant prior knowledge. With that condition met RFT allows the model to learn to leverage this knowledge to reason more effectively which is how it improved without the user needing to provide reasoning/CoT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1865126896138358864)  2024-12-06T20:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Distillation (as you know) is where we fine-tune a small model on the outputs of a larger model often allowing the smaller model to perform as well as the larger model on a narrow domain. We've seen lots of customers train 4o-mini to perform as well as 4o while achieving a 15x reduction in token cost and a large latency improvement. Lots of obvious value on the distillation side of things and it tends to be simple to implement since you're just capturing traffic from larger models. (2/3)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/1865142383228408149)  2024-12-06T21:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"My "definitely don't regret quitting my role at a frontier lab during AGI takeoff" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019576713110581310)  2026-02-06T00:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Shitpost aside (always fun to make fun of the French) this is Refuge des Mottets near the French/Italian border outside of Les Chapieux. I took this photo while hiking the Tour du Mont Blanc trail last summer. Wonderful refuge to stay at if youre in that part of the alps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022718852820537528)  2026-02-14T17:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"spent two weeks in the alps on the Tour du Mont Blanc and nobody talked about AI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022204539055792276)  2026-02-13T07:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"this saga was an instant disqualification from the "can be trusted to set the values of a superintelligence" question imo elon couldn't even stop himself from fiddling with a midwit grok just to bolster his ego can you imagine what he'd do with access to an actual AGI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023237170325229727)  2026-02-16T03:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@j_mcgraph the USS Monitor had none of the beauty or grace of the classic Ships of the Line. it did however have iron sides and that made all the difference"  
[X Link](https://x.com/john__allard/status/2023952454270783857)  2026-02-18T02:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"My "definitely don't regret quitting my role at a frontier lab during AGI takeoff" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019576713110581310)  2026-02-06T00:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The Fighting Temeraire (Turner 1838) poignant depiction of the complexity of progress as relevant as ever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023946017582755936)  2026-02-18T02:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"this saga was an instant disqualification from the "can be trusted to set the values of a superintelligence" question imo elon couldn't even stop himself from fiddling with a midwit grok just to bolster his ego can you imagine what he'd do with access to an actual AGI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023237170325229727)  2026-02-16T03:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"this is where mistral trains their models"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022581932232753208)  2026-02-14T08:01Z [----] followers, 128.6K engagements


"Shitpost aside (always fun to make fun of the French) this is Refuge des Mottets near the French/Italian border outside of Les Chapieux. I took this photo while hiking the Tour du Mont Blanc trail last summer. Wonderful refuge to stay at if youre in that part of the alps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022718852820537528)  2026-02-14T17:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"33 year old guy who still waves at firefighters its me Im guy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022394974034366721)  2026-02-13T19:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"spent two weeks in the alps on the Tour du Mont Blanc and nobody talked about AI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022204539055792276)  2026-02-13T07:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"in your kitchen silently judging your salt collection"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022027630061756643)  2026-02-12T19:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"carbon offsets but it's a donation to domestic drone development programs to offset indirect contributions to the PLA budget via the purchase of DJI equipment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021733665521459311)  2026-02-11T23:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"was in a crowded sauna recently and one jovial fella pulled out a jar full of cold celery which he proceeded to share with the rest of us. I don't normally think of the sauna as a snacking location but the cold celery was actually incredible. cold melon might hit similarly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2020623392802791460)  2026-02-08T22:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"$20 for garlic greenbeans seems universal nowadays when did restaurants start charging cocktail margins for vegetables"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019967411613757620)  2026-02-07T02:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"TIL that waymos honk at drivers they think are merging into them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2018742015727652936)  2026-02-03T17:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"future generations will not be kind to millennials for the havoc we have wreaked on classic americana housing stock Ive seen things done to 100+ year old berkeley craftsmans that still haunt my dreams the internet told her shed regret this https://t.co/pt6izK7SsD the internet told her shed regret this https://t.co/pt6izK7SsD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2018048648333152758)  2026-02-01T19:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"glen canyon dam is an aesthetic and ecological tragedy and AGI will insist upon its destruction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2018035814287241629)  2026-02-01T18:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"RT @jaketropolis: "Do you want it sliced or tavern cut" "Sykes-Picot please.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2016761365130858646)  2026-01-29T06:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"there are only two acceptable ways to spend time on airplanes: [--]. gluttonous guilt-free consumption of movies [--]. hawk-eyed monitoring of the geographic situation outside the window creating shareholder value is not on this list If you enjoy working on airplanes give your real name to baristas or are part of a family groupchat I respect you but we are fundamentally different subspecies of person and I need you to understand that as well as I do when youre talking to me. If you enjoy working on airplanes give your real name to baristas or are part of a family groupchat I respect you but we are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2016717882689016280)  2026-01-29T03:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"you claim to be sad and yet you're not listening to this 80's/90's j-pop playlist. curious https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0nz3cRJG7ZdCzdWQmIPp56si=e80535d25f744bea https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0nz3cRJG7ZdCzdWQmIPp56si=e80535d25f744bea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2016610784005222878)  2026-01-28T20:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

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