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automating myself @coreauto
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its just code 👨🏼‍💻
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skcd Verified account @skcd42
one of my best feelings about working at coreauto is that we build experiences which shape and also shaped by the research.

we are hiring for 1 more backend engineer and if you are excited about working across the stack of agent harness / runtime / RL infra and more… please reach out!
Cheng Lou Verified account @_chenglou 1d
My dear friends, I’ve got 3 pieces of news

First off, I’ve retired from @midjourney after 3.5 years. It’s been an honor; we've pulled off great projects, and a few open-sourced pieces like Pretext & Handwired have been well-received. I’d do it again with the team, but they’re in a great stable place now and I planned to take >6 months off

Second, unfortunately the words spread. Life comes at you fast and (this is a crazy story best told in private) I was taken hostage by the good folks at @coreauto. I started last week. Retirement will have to wait for another few years

Third, I’ve figured out a few pieces of technology I wanted to exist for a while now. Some more like Pretext, some more like Handwired, and a mysterious new thing (pic attached. First one to guess right gets a repost). Stay tuned as we start training these at Core Auto.

We’ll show the world what AI can truly achieve in the hands of kind, capable & grounded folks who choose to look up.

P.S. we’re hiring one (1) backend engineer. Only requirement is showing us your previous project’s dependencies list
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skcd Verified account @skcd42
using astra as a system2 model is very interesting and also bitter lesson pilled! eagerly looking forward to reading on the approach here.

congrats on being the only independent research team to make it to top 10!
keerti manney✈️CoRL’26 Verified account @keertimanney 4d
What a ride! 🚀 9th overall and #1 among independent teams at the BEHAVIOR Challenge 2026 led by @drfeifei and the @Stanford team!

We explored VLA policies alongside Astra-powered reasoning and interventions to recover from failures during execution.
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skcd Verified account @skcd42
you can do frontier training runs across continents and even in orbit soon.

Elon has said many times that almost all compute will be in space and we have proof that it works!
rohan anil Verified account @_arohan_ 5d
Hi! this is Rohan Anil, I develop training algorithms among other things - my work trains various frontier models.

At CoreAuto, I was fascinated by the problem of training on compute islands, eventually in space training.

I hope you all enjoy this write up!🪐🛰️

coreauto.com/hitchhikers-gu…
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