prolific open-source contributor. former 100x engineer; now replaced by an LLM. formerly early eng @cursor_ai and @github
San Francisco, CA
Joined July 2008
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Aman Karmani retweeted
The Prime Sandboxes team is looking for Distributed Engineering talent.
Fault-tolerant systems. Deep Linux. Virtualization. Performance Engineering. Go + Rust.
High agency and in SF. DM me your GitHub, highlighting something exceptional.
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Aman Karmani retweeted
TL;DR: LLMs can learn from backpropageted high-level knowledge. They will generalize and apply that knowledge automatically. You don’t always need full example rollouts (though they do help). We hope this inspires future research! 🧵8/8
:goat-huuuge: spotted at the taxidermy store on Valencia
I'm open sourcing one of my greatest cultural contributions to Cursor's slack, in honor of it going away soon. Not sure if I should even be giving competitors access to this tech.
This is :goat-huuuge: one of our most popular emojis. It conveys that someone is a huge GOAT way more than the non brolic and utterly lame 🐐.
Think it's time for it to spread across the Slackiverse
Our family is grieving after the horrific Times Sq attack this week. Please support Madison's future if you would like to help.
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This GoFundMe campaign is legitimate and verified. Erin Piacenti, a 32-year-old mother, was tragically killed in a random attack in Times Square on August 31, 2026. The fundraiser was set up by friends and family to support her infant daughter, Madison.
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Erin Piacenti, a beloved wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend, was killed in a random attack in Times Square on her first day back from maternity leave. Erin's family created this GoFundMe to support her young daughter's future gfme.co/4i9sFBy
Summer in the Eastern Sierra
ALT Convict Lake
ALT Devil's Postpile National Monument
ALT Mammoth Lakes Earthquake Fault
ALT Mono Lake South Tufa
Aman Karmani retweeted
If anyone finding themselves with a newly minted bag of money wants to help make Tahoe better, hit me up. I'm a long-time Tahoe local with connections to awesome people with incredible projects. Happy to have you over for dinner, hike, or bike ride and chat.
Tahoe is the best.
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Sat down to have some shawarma in Amsterdam. The guy next to me had Google Sheets open, working on an LLM eval dataset
Aman Karmani retweeted
It’s in torchtitan. It’s literally implemented in deepspeed. Guys why build this ourselves it is up streamed in huggingface accelerate. Guys just use megatron. We can plug this into monarch, we are using fairscale. It’s all already done in lightning. Let’s just clone torchtune. We can drop this into axolotl, should take a few days max. I don’t understand why we can’t just build on mosaicml composer. I mean nanotron is right there. We can spin this up today with Nemo.
Aman Karmani retweeted
Anoche en @exp8fellowship tuvimos el privilegio de escuchar a @tmm1 - empleado #15 de GitHub y #10 de Cursor - moderado por @davidgomes.
Lo digo una vez por semana, pero la generación que viene es otro rollo🔥
I've been to Spain only twice.
The first time was in June 2018. I was in Granada when Microsoft announced they had acquired GitHub.
This is my second visit, in April 2026. I arrived in Ibiza, and then SpaceX announced they are acquiring Cursor.
