Andrej Karpathy visited my weekly coworking in Portugal
✨ Yesterday we had a VERY special guest at the 9th edition of the Weekly Coworking in my house
@karpathy dropped by!!!
It's an extreme honor to meet one of the greatest minds of AI. I make little AI startups, but a lot of the technology I use, he was involved and foundational in and my stuff exists because of people like him
So I made him my specialty V60 coffee with the best freshly ground 🇧🇷☕️ Brazil beans :D there was no time for 🥩 local steak but maybe next time!
Then we worked a bit, he judged the top 50 games for the #vibejam as he's part of the jury (and inventor of the word "vibe coding")
And then we walked around to show him our little surf beach town in Portugal, the weather was great and sunny so that helped
He noticed how Portugal looks oddly similar to the Bay Area, I mean Lisbon literally has the Golden Gate Bridge, it has the trams from San Francisco, and then walking in our beach town you see the cliffs and fog in the distance, exactly as you see them in California too. And the mild climate and even the color of the sunsets are super similar
Crazily enough he told me he was a Nomad List member from when it started 10 years ago, because he wanted to go digital nomad then!
What's cool about @karpathy that he seems to be in a sweet spot of being a high level engineer but with a very creative side to it. He seems very interested in seeing AI used by as many people as possible in creative ways.
And that's also kinda what he's working on next with @EurekaLabsAI building a school where AI is heavily integrated as a way to teach billions of students in the future
A very fun day and I wonder who will be the next special guest for our weekly coworking day, maybe this can become a thing
You can just start a weekly coworking in your house and people will start showing up! ☺️☺️☺️
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