Bio
Nick Heiner is the Head of RL Environments at Surge AI, the post-training company founded and bootstrapped to $1B in revenue by CEO Edwin Chen, where he works directly with top labs to help shape frontier models.
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Nick Heiner leads RL environment development at Surge AI — described as the largest post-training data and evals provider to frontier labs — and brings practitioner insight into why even top models fail ~40% of real-world business tasks. His session offers ground-truth data on model capability gaps from someone running evaluations at scale.
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Battle-testedClear teacher
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GitHub
@NickHeiner- NickHeiner/jscodemod★ 46Codemod runner — 30x-50x faster than jscodeshift on codebases of 10,000+ files
- NickHeiner/eslint-bankruptcy★ 8Mass eslint-disable existing rule violations so a new rule can be enforced on future code without fixing all legacy violations
- fixie-ai/ai-jsxorg★ 1,131The AI Application Framework for JavaScript — Nick was a founding engineer at Fixie.ai and is the top contributor to this repo
Podcasts & interviews (1)
- Inside the Secret Labs Where AI Learns to Work · The Neuron: AI Explained · Mar 2026