Another, long term solution is broad and big picture, and is definitely day dreaming, but important:
There could be a major project that focuses on building a strong generalist EA software community (by deliberating hiring and stocking a pool of mentors, generalists, and paying large salaries).
This would be useful to build up a strong culture that consistently attracts SWE of high quality to EA. This supporting newer and growing organizations, for example, supporting nascent and growing AI orgs.
This is hard(er) to do, but extremely valuable (impact of a good version probably over $100M, justifying significant up front investment)
It’s probably generalist software talent that is limiting at AI orgs, and it seems like this won’t change for the next few years
To calibrate, several orgs are paying hundreds and some over 7 figures for generalist software talent right now. This comp is only one thing that attracts talent, and creating these conditions is hard
The corollary is that, this talent allocation, not forum writing, not cause prioritization, decides the fate of much object level work.
Another, long term solution is broad and big picture, and is definitely day dreaming, but important:
There could be a major project that focuses on building a strong generalist EA software community (by deliberating hiring and stocking a pool of mentors, generalists, and paying large salaries).
This would be useful to build up a strong culture that consistently attracts SWE of high quality to EA. This supporting newer and growing organizations, for example, supporting nascent and growing AI orgs.
This is hard(er) to do, but extremely valuable (impact of a good version probably over $100M, justifying significant up front investment)
It’s probably generalist software talent that is limiting at AI orgs, and it seems like this won’t change for the next few years
To calibrate, several orgs are paying hundreds and some over 7 figures for generalist software talent right now. This comp is only one thing that attracts talent, and creating these conditions is hard
The corollary is that, this talent allocation, not forum writing, not cause prioritization, decides the fate of much object level work.