Farhan Thawar

@fnthawar

FOLLOWS YOU. VP & Head of Eng @Shopify - Helpful (Acquired), Pivotal, Xtreme (Acquired), Microsoft, Trilogy, Waterloo. Everything you know is wrong! 🇨🇦/acc

Toronto, Ontario

Born March 17

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Farhan Thawar
@fnthawar
Jul 10
It’s super fun to test your ideas with such a smart group of founders Tks @nihalmehta Adding some points 1. You almost always want frontier intelligence. Maybe you don’t need an LLM at all? I do like the idea of “model routing” but I don’t think we know the ideal
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@nihalmehta
Jul 10
Thank you to our dear friend @fnthawar, Head of Engineering at @Shopify, running an org of some of the world's best 3000+ engineers, for speaking with our founders yesterday at @EniacVC in SoHo. Six lines stuck with me: 1) Pairing an engineer with a weak model is like starting
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@fnthawar
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My competitive advantage is that i'm having fun — Logan Kilpatrick
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Farhan Thawar
@fnthawar
Sep 7
To really understand a concept, you have to “invent” it yourself in some capacity. Understanding doesn’t come from passive content consumption. It is always self-built. It is an active, high-agency, self-directed process of creating and debugging your own mental models —
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Farhan Thawar
@fnthawar
Sep 5
Nothing easy was ever worth it!
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Farhan Thawar
@fnthawar
Sep 5
Everything is cool…. Aaaaaahhhhg
New York Post
@nypost
Sep 3
Senior citizens outnumber young kids across the world for first time in human history trib.al/4iiegnL
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