Max Buckley's Recent LinkedIn Posts

Exa Zurich is now hiring ML Research Engineers and Systems Engineers! Have you got a very particular set of skills? Are you an outstanding ML mage, or a systems engineering paladin looking to join a party to take on harder content and level up? We're building the search engine for the AI age — a neural search eng…

Vibe coding and the death of mastery Over the last few months a lot of junior engineers have reached out to me for career guidance, and they all have roughly the same complaint. They're shipping more features than ever with vibe coding, they're succeeding at what they're asked to do, and they don't understand what…

Ever wonder why some companies appear so benevolent, giving away software worth billions for free? In 2002, Joel Spolsky wrote one sentence that explains much of the big tech industry: "smart companies try to commoditize their products' complements". His logic is straight from microeconomics 101. The demand for a…

Vibe coding and the death of mastery Over the last few months a lot of junior engineers have reached out to me for career guidance, and they all have roughly the same complaint. They're shipping more features than ever with vibe coding, they're succeeding at what they're asked to do, and they don't understand what…

Nebius, NVIDIA, and Tavily are hosting a search event in Zurich on October 7th, and I will be one of the speakers! Come join myself, NVIDIA's Artem Chirkin, Nebius's Michael 🏔️ Gygli, and Maksim Nekrashevich as we go deep on several facets of modern search engines. Sign up here: https://luma.com/mgmq5ipe Fun fa…

What will you do when you never have to work again? Not on a temporary pause, not waiting for the market to turn. No CV to pad, no course to take for the next job. The thing you did for money is gone and it ain't coming back. Take a second and actually answer. Now look at your answer. Travel, write, build things,…