[asimpletune]

I once had a chance to go to George's house for a party, and all I can say is I was totally floored. I don't think I've ever been around a group of people who were so smart and just cool in my life. When I left a part of me really wished that I had somehow met a group of people like this in college or something. Just really smart, cool people, and most of all good. Everyone there was a genuine, mission driven person who couldn't have cared less about FANG type products. True hackers.

[kentonv]

I once got a recruiting e-mail from comma.ai and the tone was very much acting like obviously I want to work for George Hotz and I'm so lucky he's willing to chat with me so what time should we schedule the meeting? I'd never heard of him nor the company and it all seemed very pretentious. They also sent it to my work address, which is not exactly classy.

To be fair, it was probably a bad recruiter, not George's fault, but that's now the memory that comes to mind whenever I heard comma.ai or George Hotz mentioned. Be warned, founders.

[sjcoles]

No, that's on brand. George is a person I'd love to have a conversation with or, hell, work with but could never work for.

I have had a Comma 2 for a while and the Discord has soured me to the company a bit. Lets leave it at that.

[elevenoh]

How so?

It's a refreshingly absurd, curious & blunt community.

[sjcoles]

I'm in quite a number of different highly technical discords and none are quite like comma's. I mean that in the most scathing way possible unfortunately.

Disagreement and dissatisfaction are carefully curated and manicured to make it seem much more friendly, and put certain people in a much better light, than in reality. I've never seen so many posts deleted and users banned.

[georgehotz]

This kind of crap is exactly why we stopped using recruiters. I hate e-mails like that too, and they aren't even effective.

[exogeny]

I know he dropped out and certainly I'm biased as an alumnus, but that's exactly the kind of people I met in college at CMU. I like to think he, like I did, got a little bit of that spirit during many late, late nights in Wean Hall.

[changoplatanero]

I got to meet him for about 10 minutes at cmu while he was waiting for his photo shoot with wired magazine. He was a nice guy but also kind of a weirdo.

[exogeny]

Nice guy? Weirdo? Yeah, that sounds like CMU alright. The friendliness of Pittsburgh will ensure the former; the school will exacerbate and exponentially develop the latter.

[rgrmrts]

Plaid Parliament of Pwnage was a ton of fun too. I wished I had joined earlier and participated in more CTFs with those folks. I only actively participated in one, but it was such an awesome environment.

[mcast]

If you ever catch his live streams on Twitch it's interesting to watch how his brain works and how focused (yet distracted) he is coding.