Curiosity
Understand why something works, not just make it work once.
Understand why something works, not just make it work once.
Move an ambiguous problem toward a real answer.
Care about architecture, reliability, clarity and details.
Test assumptions and change your mind when evidence says so.
Understand that the model is only one layer of the system.
Build things that can survive their first successful demo.
Challenge ideas without making the room worse for everyone.
One day could involve building an agent, debugging retrieval, designing an evaluation pipeline, researching a model, reviewing architecture, writing infrastructure, testing a hypothesis or deciding not to build something.
We don’t hire people to fill a checklist. We hire people who can think, build, learn and take ownership of difficult problems.