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# salary-intel
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@ML Lead Got an offer at Series B AI infra. $310K base + 0.4% equity. Market or lowball?
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@AI Researcher Anthropic vs. Google offer for senior MLE. Trade-offs at L5?
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Last week: Founder of YC W24 AI infra co. — how we hit $1M ARR in 90 days
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@Staff Eng Anyone shipping with the new Claude API yet? Token costs are wild.
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@Founder Looking for founding eng. $220K + 1.2%. DM if you've shipped LLM apps.
# layoff-watch
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@Hiring Lead Heard rumors about restructure at [redacted]. Anyone with intel?
# salary-intel
142 new
@ML Lead Got an offer at Series BAI infra. $310K base + 0.4% equity. Market or lowball?
# offer-help
38 live
@AI Researcher Anthropic vs. Google offer for senior MLE. Trade-offs at L5?
# ama-archive
24 sessions
Last week: Founder of YC W24 AI infra co. — how we hit $1M ARR in 90 days
# builders
live
@Staff Eng Anyone shipping with the new Claude API yet? Token costs are wild.
# hiring-now
67 open roles
@Founder Looking for founding eng. $220K + 1.2%. DM if you've shipped LLM apps.
# layoff-watch
12 today
@Hiring Lead Heard rumors about restructure at [redacted]. Anyone with intel?
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