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Currently at Meta Superintelligence Labs. Previously at OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Augment Code. Public projects I contributed to include Gemini 1.0, ChatGPT o3/o4-mini, the Lion optimizer, and more.
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Selected work
- 2025 · Meta Superintelligence Labs — Push the boundary of single prompt optimization, agentic coding, and kernel generation.
- 2024 · OpenAI — Contributed to infra, ChatGPT o3 / o4-mini, and the pretraining data wall.
- 2023 · Augment Code — Led RL for coding models from real developer IDE behavior.
- 2020 · Google Brain/DeepMind — Research on LLMs[1,2] and AutoML[3,4,5] at Brain; later a founding member of Bard (now Gemini); contributed to Gemini 1.0 and 2.5.
Recent writing
January 31, 2026
Being an AGI Believer, Not Skeptic - Lessons from Augment Code
What it takes for AI research to compound—and what happens when it doesn't. Lessons from Augment Code on the gap between being right and winning.
November 26, 2024
Reinforcement Learning from Developer Behavior and Real IDE Environment
How we achieved a breakthrough in AI code completion by learning directly from natural developer IDE interactions, matching the gains of doubling model size and 10x more finetuning data.