https://www.thonking.ai/p/why-pytorch-is-an-amazing-place-to
I read a the internal version of this (which also doubled as Horace’s leaving note!) and really glad to see he has published it broadly. Its a great look at working in open source and how it tied in to a (very successful) career as an engineer, as well as covering his thoughts on Thinky and the space as a whole!
In high school, one of the things I feared most was that I would work on some project for 10 years and eventually realize that I’ve wasted my life improving something that nobody cared about. One of the greatest things about working on PyTorch is the certainty that I haven’t.