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With all this volatility my timelines to retirement are shrinking faster than timelines to agi

“Finance is a huge misallocation of our brightest STEM talent” The non-finance STEM talent:

Have you considered competing on users?

There are really only ~3 trading firms that are at the forefront of AI. HRT is one of those three.

To those who pay attention to the movement of people this move was inevitable. A year ago OpenAI poached julia villagra from HRT (Hudson River Trading) to head people. A few months later OpenAI is coming after quant talent, and Anthropic followed yesterday. This is just the beginning.

Let’s fucking go!!!

I think I made an under-appreciated point here. The top quant firms study exactly the same problems as OAI/Anth: scaling, architectures, hparam transfer, inference time. Just instead of text/images, they look at market data, and instead of product-market fit, they make money.

I can definitely sympathize with this, you should enjoy what you do! Different people like different things. But everyone in academia told me that I'd feel unfulfilled in trading because of the "lack of meaning". I've never had more fun in my life!

you were a *swe intern* at two sigma. what do you mean you "left quant finance"?!

kinda crazy that the ml community is basically sponsored by trading firms these days

When money has lost all meaning to me, there will be signs

i work on problems I love with great colleagues, and my work life balance is much better than at a frontier ai lab. i achieved this milestone much faster than i would have in ai fighting with reviewers, with higher likelihood, and fully in cash wtf are you talking about?

SBF being above median of his JS intern class doesn’t sell nearly as well with VCs

This will forever be my favorite tweet

It’s really easy just go to one of the places with the most gpus

The valuations of Thinking Machines, Perplexity, and SSI legitimately make no sense in a world where compute is paramount, OpenAI/Anth are so far ahead, and Google/Meta are commoditizing the low end.

your average tech bro: i could never work in finance because it’s too zero sum. i’d much rather melt an entire generations brains by optimizing the YouTube shorts recommendation algorithm

A great example of if you can't figure out how your competitor is making so much money, maybe it's fraud cnbc.com/2025/07/04/ind…

🧵 A thread of thoughts on the current Jane Street situation. In the words of another JS alum: 1) What