Ex-Meta's Yuandong Tian: After Writing a Paper With GPT-5, I Realized My Job Could Be Replaced in 5 Years
ziv_ravid · x · 2026-10-07
A podcast episode with Yuandong Tian, previously a researcher at Meta and now co-founder of Recursive Superintelligence. He revealed that after writing his last paper at Meta with GPT-5, he realized his job could be replaced within five years — "instead of losing my job involuntarily, I think it's good to start a company."
He also argues current models still can't produce genuinely good ideas: ask for one and you get something mediocre everyone has already thought of. The conversation also covers RL, Go, Continuous Latent Space CoT reasoning (Coconut), and calls to restrict self-improving AI.
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