🦾Jepson Taylor

I build stuff that doesn’t exist, an AI explorer. 
Unfortunately I have too many connections so please follow me instead. 

人工智能 (Chinese)
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कृत्रिम बुद्धिमत्ता (hindi)
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I watch the watchers, I direct the learners. 

I am passionate about machine learning. My life's mission is to further the boundaries of what is possible with data science. I spend as much time as I can working with deep learning, NLP, and all forms of data science. I currently have a passion project I am managing where I am combining the power of genetic programming with deep learning to automate network design. I think there is a trend happening in data science where human expertise and creativity are being replaced by powerful new methods (i.e. deep learning, big data). 

I am most well known for my machine learning work with the data science community and with HireVue. With the community, I enjoy posting opinions on jobs and tutorials on ML methods. I also enjoy speaking and presenting to all types of audiences. 

I've enjoyed working across engineering, product, sales, marketing, and customer success. This wider POV has helped shape the way I think about innovation, from the innovation farm to the customer's table ;)

CEO/founder VEOX

VEOX Inc is revolutionizing the AI industry by creating an AI-driven algorithm factory, compressing decades of progress into moments. Our technology automates AI science research, continuously improving algorithm efficiency and outperforming human-made algorithms. VEOX is not just building another AI company; we're catalyzing an explosion of technological advancements that will reshape the entire tech landscape. Join us in accelerating intelligence beyond human limits and leading the next wave of AI breakthroughs.

Jepson Taylor

We canceled our team’s Cursor account today. Strange considering I was so smitten by it. 🌹🥀Like a high school fling, onto the next babe. Oh, and I was top 3% globally as a user in 2025 at 22B tokens of code. Should have been on their customer advisory board maybe. AMA

CEO/founder VEOX Inc | Fasted Ultra Runner | Contributing Faculty AIMasterClass NYU | Keynote Speaker | former child

Some of the smartest people I've met in my life are... incredibly stupid. They can't read the room, they don't know how to talk to executives, they lack emotional intelligence and self-awareness. I used to always think intelligence was one-dimensional, I really cared about where I thought I was on this scale, now I see it as being ∞-dimensions. Sure, there are some standard tests we can use on humans to determine their ability to problem solve or do various coding challenges, but those tests are narrow. 

I like to say everyone is a genius, when it comes to their life experience. If you're patient enough to listen every human can teach you a lesson. I also muse with the possibility of the village idiot becoming the new savant thanks to AI. Ultimately, where we are headed the future 'genius' is unknown, and humans are not equipped to access them. Longer term, AI will be the only judge of what actually matters when it comes to human super-competency. I like this, because it tears up the standard resume. It means that someone with a PhD in neuroscience might actually be less competitive than the ambitious Uber driver in Dallas from Uganda who just needs to be enabled with a new 🥕 .

Dear r/LinkedLunatics,
I love that I live rent free in the minds of so many members of your community. I love knowing none of you will ever be able to run as far as I do in the mountains, invent at the pace that I'm capable of, or live life as a ridiculous outlier as I do. Every time I show up in your community, I take joy knowing that you are festering with my existence. Looking forward to many more posts where you feel compelled to engage and what I say/do bounces around in your simple keyboard troll minds. 

For those that don't know this community, they became famous when one of their members was caught commenting on the appearance of women on this platform. Degrading them, sexualizing them, only to be caught by accidentally sharing a screenshot that gave away their true identity. So when I think of this community, I think of a group of wanna-be ass grabbers, who have nothing better to do than tear down those that do.

Spam trick, add an Emoji to your name on LinkedIn, then make an email filter to never see your emoji in an email.

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I'm at the SLC airport, working, getting ready to head to Dubai. 
My 17th trip in 4 years.  If any of you are in the region I'll be speaking at:
http://aifest.ae/

For AI/business leaders, schedule permitting (filling up my calendar now), happy to come and speak to your engineering teams about what I've learn over the last year consuming ~25B tokens for coding agents. The pitfalls, the miracles, best practices, ideas gone wrong, ideas gone right... really right, all of it. And.. happy to show you examples of code that your humans will never be capable of writing, and explain why. #superhumancode

AMA

People who do high volume coding with AI often complain about 'fallbacks', where agents will catch exceptions and quickly patch with a moronic fallback. This can be back up libraries, dummy models, and even synthetic data... beyond stupid. You might get mad at AI, but... 

It makes you wonder? Was it trained with some of the worst human Q/A engineers in the world? My test isn't passing... there we go. This isn't installing... fixed. I can't find this dataset... this will do. Imagining the Q/A engineer that would behave this way makes you wonder, do they exist? If they do, I bet it’s the same people who leave dog poop in plastic bags on walking trails. 

Or is AI just making up some of the most terrible fallback short cuts to satisfy bugs? I've seen this bad behavior in all LLM providers.

Words can't describe how much I love the work I do. I can't type fast enough, I can't ask fast enough. I often will have 4-5 parallel threads of work that I'm managing, if only my brain could handle more. In the future as agents level up, it will. Working in the field I work in, with the technology vertical we are chasing is like waking up for Christmas daily. To review algorithms, and insights that I would never be able to produce on my own regardless the time, pressure, or budgets, is inspiring. 

Once when I was giving a talk to college students (I like giving talks to college kids, taught in a box, ready to break out, brains are like playdough). I think it was Berkley or Harvard, can't remember. I told them.

"When you do a startup, I hope you do, you need to find an idea that is so big you're willing to fail"

"What do I mean by fail? You need to be willing to foreclose on your home, have your cars reposed, max out every card you can get access to. Worry about your banking card clearing when you're buying gas and food. Where you need to awkwardly beg your friends and family for favors and emergency loans."

The college kids faces... eyes wide... 

Then I went back to the idea. If you aren't willing to endure that, then the idea wasn't big enough. I'm not talking about big enough for your professor! Your friends! Your parents! For YOU! Too often people want validation on their ideas, the best founders I know needed none. They were determined to chase the heroes journey despite head winds from their tribe. Parents and friends telling them they were stupid, and should get a real job. Find that idea big enough for you, the idea burning a hole in your head. The idea that is beyond passion, beyond obsession, entering the realm of purpose. 

For me, I have that idea, and couldn't be happier.

For all my 'fast typers' out there in Antigravity, Cursor, Claude, Chrome, etc... who are on Macs. I'm sure you have accidentally in your typing storm pressed Command+Q and closed your application. Very upsetting, well... you can change that close command on all your applications to Command + Option + Q (or any custom command). Now? Type faster!

Flights, time to think when the internet sucks. Qatar Airways was a dream my last trip with Starlink 100-150mbs down the entire time with great latency. I felt like I was (nearly) home in my office. Emirates.. gave the 2014 feeling with Onair 10-12mbs down experience with constant outages. I'm surprised more airlines don't get with the times, especially with those of us that work 24/7. In the future I'm going to call ahead to check if the plane I'm committed to has Starlink or not. 

During my thinking time, I was thinking more about the vast majority of the world is not ready for AI and will never be. You have toe dippers, and you have sprinters. The sprinters are leveling up every day, moving past 10x engineers and into territories that feel mythical. All of the 'vibe coding' nightmares are getting fixed, the wack-a-mole game is being won. Every problem found has a solution. Also, new technologies keep showing up that provide huge strides forward. 

I think a year from now, the toe-dipper engineers will be cave men compare to aliens. Are you a cave man? Or are you becoming an alien? What is your favorite tool/trick that makes you feel like you have more control over the chaos?

CEO / Co-Founder @ Skywalk Innovations | Technical Innovation

I’m the CEO & Chief Innovation Architect at Skywalk Innovations, partnering with forward-thinking organizations to define their future desired state and build the bridge from today’s landscape to tomorrow’s breakthroughs.

With 10+ years at the helm of Skywalk, I’ve spearheaded 50+ innovation initiatives and launched 6 startups (5 still thriving, 50+ team members). I’m equally at home sketching high-level strategy or diving into GenAi use cases and business models, and I invest 20–30% of our revenue into R&D, so we’re always pushing the envelope on AI, CloudNative, Video-streaming, and beyond.

What I Do

Vision & Roadmapping: I lead Technology Radar workshops to spot white-space opportunities, then co-create a metrics-driven roadmap, complete with compliance by design.

Modular Architecture: Our modular-first approach lets you introduce new capabilities (LLMs, payment rails, IoT feeds) without costly rewrites, accelerating time-to-value.

Tiger Teams & Stage-Gate Sprints: We embed cross-disciplinary squads (engineers, product managers, domain experts) into your organization, running rapid prototyping cycles, customer co-creation workshops, and “innovation retrospectives” to continuously tighten the flywheel.

Ecosystem Orchestration: As proud AWS partners, and through alliances, we combine domain access with delivery excellence, de-risking complexity and expediting adoption.

How We’ve Delivered

Public Sector Digitization: Helped a government financial services division drive 40,000+ monthly user engagements through a new digital platform.

Professional-Services Modernization: Integrated our bespoke BPM engine into a facilities-management operation, automating resource allocation and approval workflows to reduce manual handoffs by 45% and accelerate service delivery.

Telecom Billing Re-Architecture: Rebuilt a telco’s core billing engine to support six distinct channels and daily product launches.

Global SaaS Expansion: Partnered with a U.S. enterprise to launch a new platform serving global customers alongside their legacy services.

PropTech Innovation: Designed a seamless home-buyer journey that facilitated 30,000 property sales.

Why Work With Us?
We don’t do one-off pilots, we build enduring innovation engines. If you’re ready to map your future state with crystal-clear metrics, assemble the right teams, and execute at velocity, let’s connect.

👉 Book a no-obligation strategy session:
https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/415f8af9b5554ef384261c2804571094@skywalkinnovations.co.za/meetingtype/SVRwCe7HMUGxuT6WGxi68g2?anonymous

Tyrone Adams

Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling… that’s what LinkedIn feels like lately. I’ve avoided posting because it can feel like you’re competing with an AI content machine and a biased algorithm.

But I recently watched a conversation between two South African media veterans about the outspoken business champions we used to have - builders who weren’t afraid to speak up, back themselves, and sell a bold vision to corporates, government, clients, and investors. It made me look at today’s feed and ask: what happened?

Despite what 2025 put me through as a founder and South African, I’m choosing to write again - part journal, part signal. Not to perform. To document real lessons from building a technology company here, and to make sure the story is written with my own pen.

So, a re-introduction:
I’m the CEO of Skywalk Innovations - award-winning inventors who’ve built technology across multiple sectors and 9 countries. Last year, we began launching our latest invention: an AI-assisted process factory designed to reinvent how enterprises run cross-department work.

Imagine renting a factory of agents (with human oversight) for complex workflows with messy documents and many handoffs - agents that learn your process once, handle the flow end-to-end, flag only the exceptions, and maintain a clean audit trail as the system improves over time.

If you’re building, hiring, or modernising - welcome. I’ll be sharing the journey.

#entrepreneurship #technology #flowsync

I’ve noticed something about wave changes.

They don’t only create new opportunities. They create panic.

People split fast:

Some see a chance to reinvent.
Others treat it like an existential threat and start clinging to what’s left.

I’ve been through a few shifts myself, product → consulting → product again.
Different moves. Same pattern.

And the only way I’ve found to stay sane is a simple combo:

1) North Star
Pick a target.
6 months, 12 months, 3 years, whatever.
Without a target you can work like hell and still feel like you’re going nowhere.

2) Compounding actions
Not ideas. Actions.
Compounding doesn’t show up quickly, that’s the trap.
But small actions done consistently become unfair over time.

3) Rate of learning
Compounding is useless if you’re compounding the wrong thing.

So the edge is the loop:
Act → observe → evaluate → adjust.

I think of it like rudder on a boat.
Effort is the horsepower.
Learning keeps you on course.

When a wave hits, I come back to the same questions every time:
What am I aiming at?
What can I start compounding today?
How quickly can I learn and adjust?

Keen to hear how others are navigating wave changes.

#Business #Technology #SouthAfrica

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