Former Googler Nostalgic for Google Brain's 2016 Golden Era
daibond_alpha · x · 2026-08-28
A developer praised Google Brain as the best place they've worked for its freedom and compute. The quoted tweet revisits the 2016 Brain Residency program, a visionary idea by Ilya Sutskever that bypassed rigid hiring pipelines to select from 3,000 applicants, fostering a team of bold innovators.
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