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Personally, no.

I think around the time I left Meta, there was, I think, a fused RMS norm, which was the first AI-generated kernel that was merged, but that was not my work.

That was Laura's work on the kernel agent team.

I do remember, though, the main experience we had at the time was that the kernel was quite long, and so I think it was important to desloppify it.

I've got another way to put you on the spot.

Meta question.

Are you using your own layers of software that you've built on your own business?

Great question.

So, like, it depends on the streamer, too.

Like, TimTheTatman, I'm not a TimTheTatman viewer, so I'm not even gonna mention him.

But, like, who's a streamer I actually, like, watch and respect? Like, Desmond, okay? If he goes and plays Marathon, which I think he did, or, like, Metaphor, okay? He goes and plays Marathon for a while.

He has fun for a little bit, and then he stops playing it.

Like, I respect Metaphor's opinion, and I know that he knows what he's talking about when it comes to FPS games.

And if he were, like, still playing Marathon, that would mean it's probably a pretty fun, good game.

So because I respect his opinion, evaluation and opinion of a thing, that would make me more likely to buy it.

You're trying to say like, what can we automate so that we free up new bandwidth so that we can test new hypotheses? And what of those new hypotheses are actually like showing, you know, gains? And I think there's also distance from the customer problem here.

Meta and Google have reported increases in ROI based on use of AI and ad technology, right? The ROI equation is very specific.

There's a customer, there's an ad you put in front of them.

Can we do this more efficiently? That's the type of thing where you're close to the customer.

Right now, we're making a podcast and a radio series all about shortwave radio, and we want to hear about your shortwave radio experiences.

Meta, huh? Yeah, people have been writing us in.

It's nice.

Good.

I'm, I was sure you had used it before.

Meta.

It's not meta [laughs].

Meta is M-E-T-A.

Why are you playing a guitar for meta?

It's meta.