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May 13, 2021 • 6 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
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Taylor Swift as notable #AAPI computer scientists. 🧵

Andrew Yao, 2000 Turing Award Winner. Known for proving Yao's Principle. See also: Yao's Millionaire's problem.

#AAPIMonth
Raj Reddy, winner of the 1994 Turing Award for pioneering work in artificial intelligence. Mentor to @kaifulee.

#AAPIMonth
@kaifulee Jeannette Wing, who co-developed the Liskov Substitution Principle. Leader in formal methods research. Head of @SCSatCMU 2004-2007 and 2010-2012.

#AAPIMonth
@kaifulee @SCSatCMU Peter Lee, head of @MSFTResearch. Head of @SCSatCMU 2005-2008. Co-developer proof-carrying code.

#AAPIMonth
@kaifulee @SCSatCMU @MSFTResearch Victor Zue, former head of @MIT_CSAIL (and my student advisor when I was a PhD student there). Pioneer in speech processing.

#AAPIMonth
@kaifulee @SCSatCMU @MSFTResearch @MIT_CSAIL Harry Shum, known for work on computer vision, graphics, and on @bing, of which he was previously the VP. Previously head of MSR Asia.

#AAPIMonth

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Oct 20, 2023
When I started Akita, we had an office and people loved coming in.

In 2020, I pivoted almost my entire team. A big part of it: finding people who worked well remotely.

What I learned about remote vs in-office: they require VERY different cultures. You can't just flip a switch!

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To me, the office was an essential character in every story of innovation. I believed that every early-stage startup needed to be colocated to make it.

How else could you build trust? How else did the magic happen?

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As first, my belief in offices became a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Mar 17, 2023
When ChatGPT came out, I was excited about the ability to prototype with AI. Everyone now has an ML team at their fingertips!

What I underestimated: how much ChatGPT is a *UI* prototyping tool.

Quick thread about how our team prototyped 4+ new capabilities in < 1 week. 1/
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Before ChatGPT, every new capability required building a new analysis in the backend AND new frontend support. This was a lot of work per capability! 3/
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Feb 10, 2023
Today, software is more like a rainforest rather than a planned garden. Code bases are more complex than ever before; the rise of SaaS and APIs means prod is the only source of truth.

But dev tools haven’t caught up.

Dev tools need a ChatGPT makeover. Here’s what I mean.

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Today, most software engineering is about making assumptions about how the mess of reality works, trying your best to code against that, seeing how things shook out, and repeating until it all works.

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Dev tools continue to focus on what is traditionally considered software development: writing code, reading code, and running tests.

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Jan 13, 2023
I was @AdeetiU's guest at an MIT alumni event focused on MIT EECS's initiative to increase gender representation among grad students.

Afterward, we talked about how intimidating was to be a young woman in a male-dominated field.

In case it helps others, here's what helped me.
@AdeetiU There's a lot of advice for women not to get talked over, to get a seat at a table, etc.

What was most helpful for me was to realize that a lot of gender differences are cultural differences. They're often not personal and they're often not consciously discriminatory.
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It helped me pick up a few patterns that helped me more easily establish rapport and get listened to.
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Like many of you, I've been following what's been going on at Twitter Eng with great interest.

The current situation is undeniably extreme and terrible for many employees.

But it does share common patterns with I've been seeing across the software industry.

Quick thread. 🧵/
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Similarly, Twitter isn't the only company with high churn. One in three American workers switched jobs during the Great Resignation. 2/
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This is not fun but unfortunately not uncommon: I've come across lots of teams in this position. Churn leads to owning stuff you don't understand. 3/ Twitter devs oncall for services they didn't write
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Upon popular request: skincare products as developer tools, a thread.

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