No degree?
Correct. Instead: a from-scratch transformer, tokenizer, optimizer, thirty reimplemented architectures, and a compiler — all public, all benched. Interview the artifacts, not the résumé.
How do I verify the numbers?
Clone the repo and run the bench commands — same seeds, same batches, published tables. The curves on this site are redrawn from those exact runs. If a number doesn't reproduce, that's a bug report I'll fix in public.
How does the private variant change hands?
Email first. Serious interest signs an NDA, then gets the file plus the full loss tables and the method. Acquihire takes it off the market entirely.
Why not just replicate it?
You can try — the loss tables tell you what "working" looks like. But the recipe took the full journey: blown-up runs, warmup forensics, block-size sweeps. By the time a replication lands, it's training real models here. Speed is part of the moat.