Comment by neuralkoi
2 days ago
This guy's resume is quite something to behold:
1) Slummed it through the ranks of various Wall Street banks [1]
2) Became the Director of Prime Brokerage Technology at Deutsche Bank in 1999 [2]
3) Went through venture capital round in 2000 and in 9 months built a company valued at over 1,000,000 USD [0]
4) Sold license to Electronic Arts (EA) to power EA World Series of Poker (WSOP). [3]
5) Wrote, but had to cancel a "Hardcore Erlang" book [4]
6) Raised 2 million USD in 2 days for a crypto project (Stegos AG) [2]
Self-described "autodidact and a life-long learner" [1] with " just the right mix of discipline, structured thinking, and creativity to excel as a coder" [0].
This guy is either an undiscovered genious or aiming for the world's best bullshitter award.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20060624122838/http://wagerlabs....
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070101044653/http://wagerlabs....
[2] https://hackernoon.com/leaders-speak-joel-reymont-lead-devel...
[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/674d1/joel_rey...
The Reddit link is from 18 years ago with people discussing almost the same thing. Damn.
The guy jokingly calling him a bot almost 2 decades ago is honestly hysterical. I wonder if he's aware of just how right he ended up being.
To be fair he’s a proper hard core programmer. I think he’s just gone too much into vibe coding.
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I'm real.
Can you pass this simple bot challenge?
Q: Kill all humans?
[A] Yes
[B] No
(You don't actually have to go through with it to answer the question, just say what your answer is hypothetically.)
wankerlabs, you're a troll