personal reflections from interviewing him: - Idk how to say this but surprisingly not arrogant. we both prepped by watching his lex fridman and prior livestre

personal reflections from interviewing him: - Idk how to say this but surprisingly not arrogant. we both prepped by watching his lex fridman and prior livestreams, so its not like we were dealing with an unknown quantity, but I've never seen him interact with "normal" (technical, but not his level of technical) people like us before. he was pretty patient I think, except I definitely got roasted for suggesting you could jailbreak the tinybox. instantly regretted it but he only joked once aboout it which was super cool :) - quite reasonable expectations for his AMD frustrations. the fact that Lisa Su got personally involved and they listened was also fantastic. this isn't a "tech diva flipping the table because they stubbed their toe" story - AMD was found wanting in basic documentation requirements, he raised the issue, they took a while but eventually fixed it. Great partnership all around imo - hiring in the age of AI is really going to get strange. he thinks we're ~20 years out from developer jobs being gone. Yes he is essentially asking people to do work for small bounties. in some circles, that's a no go. but it basically guarantees that the candidate will be a fit, and is fine if you want to keep the team tiny anyway. he also changed his mind on remote work which is cool. - this was the first time i heard anything materially different about GPT4 architecture being a mixture of experts rather than a 1 trillion super model. does raise the question about what GPT5 will be built on if we have indeed run into the limits of scaling model size. - notes to future interviewers: george is ultra open (he identifies strongly as a streamer, is very comfortable with what he is saying and doesnt need a ton of prep or post recording review) - just be super attentive to what he does and does not want to talk about and let him riff and he will indulge. i think we were maybe like a 7 out of 10 on getting the best out of him, but hopefully we will be a lot better by the time we go down to San Diego for the tinybox launch :fingerscrossed: - He gave us advice on whether or not we wanted to go big and be the next Lex Fridman or stay niche and I think we were pretty convicted on wanting to stay niche and technical. To my knowledge there's no other podcast in the world that could have had this deep-but-still-kinda-accessible conversation with George and I strongly feel like something like this has to exist.