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AI Job Search: My $340K Headway Offer, Including a $20K Sign-On
How I used AI to improve my resume, find matching software engineering roles, and apply, leading to a $340K Headway offer that includes a $20K sign-on bonus.
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Shorts I filmed while building NexusTrade.
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AI Startup Costs: My $5,756 Credit Card Bill, Before the Big Bills
My September AI startup costs: a $5,756 credit-card bill for market data, AI providers and daily life, before rent, mortgage and other major monthly bills.
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How I Code Review a 50,000-Line AI-Generated Feature
How Austin Starks code reviews a 50,000-line AI-generated pull request before shipping it to NexusTrade, the platform trading $40,000+ of his own money.
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How I Use Codex to Find and Apply to Software Engineering Jobs
How a software engineer uses Codex to find remote, high-paying jobs, apply directly on company sites, and land offers at Coinbase, Figma and Headway.
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Why Smaller Language Models Hallucinate More. I Turned Down $475,000.
Why smaller language models hallucinate more. Senior AI engineer. I turned down $475,000. More weights and more data make a more accurate function.
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They Knew About My Trading App From Day One. Then Coinbase Fired Me.
Coinbase knew about NexusTrade from day one. I disclosed it on LinkedIn, GitHub, and to People Ops. They fired me after Coinbase Advisor shipped.
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I Spent 1,400 Days Building This. 35,000 People Have Tried It.
I spent 1,400 days building an algo trading platform. 1,873,324 lines, 35,000 people, and a live public book. Google Public Portfolio Challenge.
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How to Succeed in Life: The 11 Steps I Actually Took, With Receipts
How to succeed in life, shown with receipts: open heart surgery, Cornell, CMU, Princeton, Coinbase, Figma, and turning down a $475,000 offer.
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What Can You Do With a Biology Degree? Mine Led to CMU and Big Tech.
What can you do with a biology degree? Austin Starks used his to earn a CMU master's, work as a software engineer, and run a public AI trading experiment.
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Is NexusTrade legit? Does NexusTrade work?
Is NexusTrade legit? Austin Starks shows the public record: Coinbase, Figma, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, 1.6M lines of code, and $25,000 of his own money in a live book.
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I let two AI agents trade $44,000 of my own money
Two AI trading agents manage $44,000 of Austin Starks' own money. The $25,000 Public Portfolio Challenge, the August strategy swap, and the paper control that measures it.
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They Called Me a DEI Hire. Here Is the Receipt for Every Claim.
Called a DEI hire, Austin Starks lists the record: Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, a $40M integration at Oscar Health, an Ivy League powerlifting title, and 1.6M lines of code.
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Open Heart Surgery Six Days Before Christmas. I Learned to Code Two Weeks Later.
Open heart surgery at 2019 Christmas for an atrial septal defect and PAPVR, then teaching myself React two weeks later on max-dose painkillers.
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They Said Affirmative Action Got Me Into Cornell. Here Is What I Did There.
They said Cornell was affirmative action. The record: Ivy title, Princeton, a CMU full ride, Figma, and 1.6M lines of code.
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Is a 3.6 GPA Bad? The Lowest Calculus Score at Cornell, and My Transcript.
I had the lowest score in my Cornell Calculus II class, finished it above the class median, and graduated with a 3.631. The full transcript is on screen.
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How I Made $400K a Year as a Senior AI Engineer
Senior AI engineer Austin Starks on making $400k a year in big tech, the W-2 that proves it, and how he helps students land the same jobs.
1:37Transcript
Stop Using GitHub Job Repos and LinkedIn for SWE Jobs
Why a software engineer with a $350K offer skips GitHub job repos and uses LinkedIn sparingly when looking for software engineering jobs.
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How to Negotiate a Software Engineer Salary: My $210K Base Offer
A software engineer's three steps to negotiating a $210K base salary and a $20K sign-on bonus: interviews, rare expertise, and a competing offer.
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I Turned Down Figma for a Series D Startup. Here Are My 3 Reasons.
Why a software engineer turned down Figma for Headway, a Series D startup: the recruiting process, a side project policy, and a $210K offer.
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Figma vs. a Startup: Two $300K Jobs, and I’m Leaning Figma
Figma or a Series D startup? Austin Starks compares two remote software engineering opportunities around $300K and explains why he is leaning Figma.
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Figma Job Offer: I Turned Down $475K, Then Accepted My Dream Job
Austin Starks accepted a $300K-plus Figma software engineering offer after rejecting a $475K-plus package. His dream-job announcement sets up part two.
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Figma Software Engineer Offer After 6 Months of LeetCode: $300K a Year
I got a Figma software engineer offer after six months of LeetCode and system design prep. Around $300K a year, with Figma's revenue and gross profit growth.
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What I Think of Palantir as a Software Engineer. I Turned Down $300,000.
What I think of Palantir as a software engineer. I turned down over $300,000. The stock can be a trade. The job is not.
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I Don't Write Any of My Code. The Project Is 1,873,324 Lines.
Senior AI engineer. I don't write any of my code. The project is 1,873,324 lines. I only read orders, Stripe, and real money paths.