Andrej Karpathy joining Anthropic sparks industry debate over the prestige of Member of Technical Staff titles

@shreyansj It’s refreshing to see a company of this size successfully call bs on the whole thing to this extent. One group of MTS on a mission, clean.

@agihippo RS/RE/SWE is such a weird split by now. It should be all R

Tweets like that are from people who don't understand what it means to love working on technology. MTS is the best job in the history of humanity!

Let's not forget the applied scientist title. It is the most fun one.

I was once introduced on Slack as “senior as” (at some prior employer). I kid you not, this was the line.

Thoughts in my head: ah yes, after all these years, I finally became a senior a$$.

Let's not forget the applied scientist title. It is the most fun one.

I was once introduced on Slack as “senior as” (at some prior employer). I kid you not, this was the line.

Thoughts in my head: this is how one graduates to become a senior a$$.

I've had all of these, plus AS and just S, but most of my SWE jobs weren't "researchy". Anyways, I am all about unification of titles. Even more importantly I would abolish fine-grained hierarchies. That said, there's still a line between people who mostly deploy code and people who mostly do research.