The engine behind fal's $16B valuation was built by a 22-year-old who started writing…
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The engine behind fal's $16B valuation was built by a 22-year-old who started writing compilers at 14. Batuhan Taskaya, head of engineering at fal: 1. Started with operating systems, then programming languages 2. Became one of the youngest core maintainers of Python 3. Built fal's inference engine as a tracing compiler 4. It spots patterns in any model and swaps in fast GPU code at runtime Lessons: → Never optimize for one model: the next one is always coming → Build systems that make every future release start from your best work → Hire for depth in a craft, then point it at the new probl
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