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
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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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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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What exactly is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for? -- Thomas Sowell
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what a wonderful world we live in
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Farhan Thawar
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Aug 31
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct — Niels Bohr, Nobel Prize laureate
Farhan Thawar
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Aug 30
The most common mistake we make is to do a great job on an unimportant task -- Kevin Kelly