George Hotz 谈 AI 编程

我相信你已经听说过 AI 招聘军备竞赛：自动化简历垃圾投递系统与自动化筛选系统相互对话，所有人的时间都被浪费了。我们曾经有一套行之有效的悬赏计划（bounty program），但由于 AI 的出现，它已经无法再为招聘提供良好的信号。现在，一些人甚至几乎不理解悬赏任务要求的是什么，就把任务粘贴进 Claude Code，然后提交一个 PR。悬赏过去能提供信号，现在不行了。因此，这一篇章算是结束了。

取而代之的是……如果你想在这里被录用，就开始为 tinygrad 做贡献。我们公司高度公开。我们通过 Discord 和 GitHub 协作，每周举行一次会议，任何人都可以旁听。我们还存有全部往期会议的归档，方便大家补上进度。

AI 公司喜欢宣传，如今任何人（只要向它们付费）都能成为软件开发者。对于某些软件而言，这是真的。如果你只需要为自己粗制滥造的品牌做一个粗制滥造的应用，当然，Claude Code 可以一次性把它生成出来，而且制作成本比以往任何时候都更低。但那并不是软件开发，它看上去更像是一个稍微更灵活的 WordPress。

我们鼓励在软件开发工作流中使用 AI，就像我们鼓励使用其他工具一样；但并不存在这样的人：因为 AI 的存在，我们现在会聘用他、而此前不会聘用他，反之亦然。AI 破坏了悬赏计划这类机制，确实令人遗憾，但这只意味着我们需要寻找新的筛选方式。

所以，是的，如果你想在这里工作，就直接开始做事。慢慢来，理解项目目标，并看看你能在哪些地方提供帮助。通常我们不想要新功能，我们想要删除。我们希望事情经过更清晰的思考。我们希望看到深入的 Bug 修复和回归测试。阅读 Discord 和提交历史，感受一下项目的节奏。

这份工作并不适合所有人。我们在寻找真正想要构建这件事的人。因为归根结底，这不只是为了我们，也是为了他们自己。我（George）花了很多时间思考如何最好地打击大型科技公司的寻租行为，而 tinygrad 是我想出的最佳方案。这不会是一种直截了当的攻击；那样会失败，因为对他们来说太显眼了。我是在以 10 年为时间尺度思考。tinygrad 从基础设施的底层切入。如果科技公司出售重新包装过的 petaflop，而我们将 petaflop 商品化，它们就没有地方可以寻租了。

从实际安排来看，这是一份非常轻松的工作。远程/线下混合办公，在圣地亚哥和香港设有办公室；你可以在两个办公室中的任意一个办公，也可以两个都不去。要求是每周参加一次时长一小时的会议，以及每隔一周提交一份 3 句话的 sprint 总结。全职岗位薪资范围为 75k-150k，另加 0.1%-0.5% 的股权。你在这里做的几乎所有事情都是开源且公开的。

如果你读到了这里，你已经知道该如何申请。

I'm sure you've heard about the AI arms race in hiring. Automated resume spammers talking to automated screening systems and everyone having their time wasted. For a while, we had a bounty program that worked, but because of AI it's no longer providing good signal for hiring. Now, it's people who barely even understand what the bounty is asking for pasting it into Claude Code and submitting a PR. The bounties used to provide signal, now they don't. So that chapter is kind of over.

In place is just ... if you want to get hired here, start contributing to tinygrad. Our company is extremely public. We coordinate through Discord and GitHub and have one meeting a week that's open for anyone to listen to. There's an archive of all the past meetings for catching up.

The AI companies like to promote that anyone (who pays them) can be a software developer now. For some software, this is true. If all you need is a slop app for your slop brand, sure, Claude Code can one shot that and it's cheaper than ever to make. But that isn't software development, it looks a lot more like a slightly more flexible WordPress.

We encourage use of AI in software development workflows in the same way we encourage other tooling, but there's nobody now that we would hire because AI exists who we wouldn't have hired before and vice versa. It's sad that it breaks things like the bounty program, but that just means we need to find new ways of screening.

So yea, if you want a job here, just start doing it. Take your time, understand the goals of the project, and see where you can help. Generally we don't want features, we want deletion. We want things more clearly thought through. We want deep bug fixes and regression tests. Read the Discord and commit history and get a feel for it.

This job isn't for everyone. We are looking for people who want to build this. Because at the end of the day, it's not just for us, it's for them too. I (George) spent a lot of time thinking about how to best attack big tech rent seeking and tinygrad was the best idea I came up with. It's not a straightforward attack, that will fail it's too legible to them. I'm thinking on a 10 year time horizon. tinygrad hits at the base layer in the infrastructure. If the tech companies sell repackaged petaflops and we commoditize the petaflop, there's no place for them to rent seek.

Logistics wise, it's a super chill job. Remote / in-person hybrid, offices in San Diego and Hong Kong, feel free to work out of both or neither. Requirements are a one hour long meeting a week + a 3 sentence sprint summary every other week. Salary range is 75k-150k + 0.1%-0.5% equity for full time. Almost everything you do here is open source and public.

If you read this, you already know how to apply.