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Alex Kotliarskyi
I’m a software engineer based in Seattle. I work at OpenAI on making GPUs do useful things. I like building products, obsessing over UX and little details, and connecting the dots. In the past I cofounded Secta AI, worked at Replit and Facebook building mobile apps, developer efficiency tools, React Native, Oculus and Messenger. I write about technology and side projects.
Latest Posts
We just published a blog post about Symphony – an agent orchestrator I built for my team at OpenAI. Here I wanted to share a few behind-the-scenes bits that didn’t make the cut. Earlier this year I joined a team that had gone all-in on...
Vjeux once told me a story that stuck with me. It was about the good old days of the World of Warcraft. Blizzard shipped regular updates to the game, but their change logs were very sparse. The community had to figure out the details on...
Many years ago, I was invited to an adventure. My colleague from Facebook was assembling a little skunk works crew for a mission at Apple’s headquarters. We were to build the first prototype of the Facebook app for Apple TV. It was 2014....
The pendulum is about to swing the other direction
One of my most successful side projects had exactly 2 daily active users.
Everyone needs a Get Your Shit Together day every once in a while...
In 2017 I gave a talk at Chain React about building great user experiences with React Native. At the time the tech was new and the quality of the mobile apps built with React Native was poor. The gist of my talk was that it’s possible to...
In 2017 I gave a talk at Chain React about building great user experiences with React Native. At the time the tech was new and the quality of the mobile apps built with React Native was poor. The gist of my talk was that it’s possible to...
If you want to build a web app The Hacker News Way, here's the stack you should use.
How do you choose the best tool for the job?
First make the change easy, then make the easy change.
Making reliable systems that expect things to go wrong
This is a story about a side project that I started in 2018, and the reasons I'm shuting it down.
How a random stream of events ended up creating a picture with 57 million views