Comment by p1esk
6 hours ago
Someone from AMD posted this a few minutes ago, then deleted it:
"Anush's success is due to opting out of internal bureaucracy than anything else. most Claude use at AMD goes through internal infrastructure that can take hundreds of seconds per response due to throttling. Anush got us an exemption to use Anthropic directly. he is also exempt from normal policies on open source and so I can directly contribute to projects to add AMD support. He's an effective leader and has turned ROCm into a internal startup based in California. Definitely worth joining the team even if you've heard bad things about AMD as a whole."
This kind of bullshit is why I don't want to join AMD, even if this particular team is temporarily exempt from it.
> he is also exempt from normal policies on open source and so I can directly contribute to projects to add AMD support.
It's crazy that this is a big deal.
I understand the need for some kind of governance around this but for it to require a special exemption just shows how far the AMD culture needs to shift.
Liability is always a big deal.
Sure, but it's not like other large companies don't have policies that address this.
Policies like these are widespread in most companies with >1000 employees
So join NVIDIA instead