Lover of baseball. Consumer of pastries. VP of Engineering @BrilliantOrg.
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It's hard to overstate how valuable @wafer_ai's stability has been. Previous providers caused latency spikes and eval aberrations. Wafer has eliminated a class of issues we used to lose sleep over. If something goes awry, they're the most responsive partner we've worked with.
This is an awesome customer story (I’m a proud @brilliantorg investor and a huge supporter of their mission).
We heard the same themes over and over again when speaking to @wafer_ai customers.
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Stories like this are why I love building learning software.
Supporting someone's learning makes them better off and better equips them to solve important problems for the world.
Here's to @wafer_ai & @brilliantorg playing a small part in millions more stories like @gpuemi's!
i grew up in Mexico, where it wasn’t always easy to find really high-quality educational resources that pushed me intellectually.
i knew pretty early that i wanted to eventually go to one of the best universities i could in the US, and i spent a lot of time trying to get sharper on my own.
@brilliantorg was a very meaningful part of that.
i still remember being in early high school and absolutely spamming their logic courses. i loved them. they genuinely made me better at thinking, especially around math and logic, and helped build a lot of the skills that eventually got me where i wanted to go.
so there is something very surreal about @wafer_ai now serving Brilliant :)
their AI tutor, Koji, needs to respond incredibly quickly while students are working through math and coding problems. before Wafer, Brilliant was speculatively prefetching AI-generated responses so students wouldn’t have to wait.
on our dedicated GLM-5.2 endpoint, they’re now getting ~250ms time to first token and 300+ output tok/s, 3x the throughput of their previous provider!
that let them remove the prefetching layer entirely and cut inference costs by 50%.
it’s hard to describe how gratifying it is to help power a product that helped me become a better thinker when i was a kid.
very full circle moment.
🧵 Brilliant’s full story in thread.
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This is an awesome customer story (I’m a proud @brilliantorg investor and a huge supporter of their mission).
We heard the same themes over and over again when speaking to @wafer_ai customers.
i grew up in Mexico, where it wasn’t always easy to find really high-quality educational resources that pushed me intellectually.
i knew pretty early that i wanted to eventually go to one of the best universities i could in the US, and i spent a lot of time trying to get sharper on my own.
@brilliantorg was a very meaningful part of that.
i still remember being in early high school and absolutely spamming their logic courses. i loved them. they genuinely made me better at thinking, especially around math and logic, and helped build a lot of the skills that eventually got me where i wanted to go.
so there is something very surreal about @wafer_ai now serving Brilliant :)
their AI tutor, Koji, needs to respond incredibly quickly while students are working through math and coding problems. before Wafer, Brilliant was speculatively prefetching AI-generated responses so students wouldn’t have to wait.
on our dedicated GLM-5.2 endpoint, they’re now getting ~250ms time to first token and 300+ output tok/s, 3x the throughput of their previous provider!
that let them remove the prefetching layer entirely and cut inference costs by 50%.
it’s hard to describe how gratifying it is to help power a product that helped me become a better thinker when i was a kid.
very full circle moment.
🧵 Brilliant’s full story in thread.
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Jared Silver retweeted
i grew up in Mexico, where it wasn’t always easy to find really high-quality educational resources that pushed me intellectually.
i knew pretty early that i wanted to eventually go to one of the best universities i could in the US, and i spent a lot of time trying to get sharper on my own.
@brilliantorg was a very meaningful part of that.
i still remember being in early high school and absolutely spamming their logic courses. i loved them. they genuinely made me better at thinking, especially around math and logic, and helped build a lot of the skills that eventually got me where i wanted to go.
so there is something very surreal about @wafer_ai now serving Brilliant :)
their AI tutor, Koji, needs to respond incredibly quickly while students are working through math and coding problems. before Wafer, Brilliant was speculatively prefetching AI-generated responses so students wouldn’t have to wait.
on our dedicated GLM-5.2 endpoint, they’re now getting ~250ms time to first token and 300+ output tok/s, 3x the throughput of their previous provider!
that let them remove the prefetching layer entirely and cut inference costs by 50%.
it’s hard to describe how gratifying it is to help power a product that helped me become a better thinker when i was a kid.
very full circle moment.
🧵 Brilliant’s full story in thread.
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@brilliantorg 3x’d their tokens per second and cut inference costs by 50%, by making its AI tutor fast enough to answer in real time instead of speculatively prefetching answers.
To keep Koji, their AI tutor, responsive during math and coding lessons, the Brilliant team was speculatively prefetching AI-generated responses so students wouldn’t have to wait.
On Wafer's dedicated GLM-5.2 endpoint, Brilliant reached ~250 ms time to first token and 300+ output tokens per second. This was a 3x throughput increase over their previous provider.
That speed let Koji answer learners in real time, so the Brilliant team could stop pre-generating responses and remove the prefetching layer.
Read how Brilliant made the switch!
🧵 Link in Thread
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"Why are AI labs suddenly talking about a slowdown now?" <-- They were talking about it for years but you weren't paying attention until this week
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AI changed how we code. So we mapped the skills programmers need now.
Brilliant’s Durable Coding Skills Framework provides a complete map from foundational CS to effective coding with AI:
Foundations: 7 Big Ideas, 42 learning objectives, 196 skills
Coding with AI: 7 Big Ideas, 37 learning objectives, 106 skills
Much of coding now happens through natural language: describing a task, setting constraints, and directing an AI agent. But natural language is ambiguous, and generated code still needs to be tested, debugged, and judged.
This means the foundations of computer science still matter. They’re what let you tell an AI what to build, recognize when it’s wrong, and make it better.
In Brilliant fashion, we made the framework visual and interactive, so you can see how we break down categories of skills when we design our curriculum.
Check it out at brilliant.org/coding-skills/ and let us know what you think!
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I cannot emphasize enough how amazing this was. Videos like this do not do it justice. Truly feels like you're sitting on the field watching the game.
Live immersive MLB on Apple Vision Pro. It felt like I was at Yankee Stadium. The whole experience was incredible.
Shot through the lens with iPhone since it can’t be recorded on headset.
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I have a friend who built out the AI enablement workstream / taught everyone cowork / managed skills / etc. at an old-school finance shop.
she's now looking to do this full time somewhere else that's more forward thinking. Anyone hiring or have leads, can introduce.
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The week that we launched our AI tutor Koji, “AI” as a topic was getting commencement speakers booed off stage.
We were worried the launch was doomed, but instead it went super viral.
Why?
It turns out people aren’t “anti-AI”.
They’re anti-idiocracy, anti-job replacement, anti-slop.
But if you show them a product that will help them and their kids be better thinkers, they’ll embrace it.
A positive, pro-social vision of AI is hugely resonant.
Thanks @Jason @twistartups for having me on!
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last week we launched Koji, @brilliantorg 's math and coding tutor.
one of my favorite little design details is a dynamic glow effect that visually indicates when Koji is talking.
to make it happen, we wrote a script to databind the audio waveform of Koji's voice, then built a preview environment that allowed us to fine-tune the effect before handing off to developers.
you can read more about the process below
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A great tutor is expressive!
Thanks to our friends @rive_app for making it possible to break Koji out of the chatbox, and infuse him with joyful dynamic range.
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'@tbpn: “Do you feel like you have a duty to make learning addictive?”
No. My goal is for our tutor Koji to work himself out of a job.
Koji offers more help when you’re doing conceptual learning, then steps back as you reach mastery.
A great tutor creates students who ask the questions that were once asked of them.
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Our household is a huuuuuuge fan of the @brilliantorg app
Our 7yo is an avid DAU, deeply self-motivated to hit what Brilliant calls a “streak of the century” (smart naming)
True story: The day the AI tutor showed up for him in the app, he ran to tell me “mama! mama! Brilliant gave me my OWN personal tutor and I can ask it questions even while you’re on your phone” 😅
Congrats @suekhim and team on this launch. Energizing the next generation to think and learn is an all-important mission, and as parents we all wish we had 1000x more hours in the day to teach our kids. We’re so grateful you’re building to empower kids (and parents!) everywhere.
AI is making kids dumber.
It should be making them geniuses.
Introducing Koji, the first AI tutor that gets kids to actually think. 👇
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Just spent an hour with daughter learning CS 101 from @brilliantorg
She doesn’t want to give up until she beats Joyce B 🔥
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School conditioned generations of kids to ask: “Will this be on the test?”
The next generation will ask: “How far can I go?”
Just spent an hour with daughter learning CS 101 from @brilliantorg
She doesn’t want to give up until she beats Joyce B 🔥
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I'm such a huge fan of what @suekhim and the Brilliant team have built.
When every kid in every country grows up with a 1:1 personalized AI tutor, we'll realize how much potential we really have.
AI is making kids dumber.
It should be making them geniuses.
Introducing Koji, the first AI tutor that gets kids to actually think. 👇
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POV: Thinking is cool again
Insane response to the launch!
I tripled the # of gift invites and only have a few left, then wrapping the promo.
But, Koji is generally available today on Brilliant’s website/apps!
Thank you all so much for the support.
AI is making kids dumber.
It should be making them geniuses.
Introducing Koji, the first AI tutor that gets kids to actually think. 👇
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