Devin Pigera

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Devin Pigera

Devin Pigera

@dpigera

ai engineer @AlphaSchoolATX, gauntlet ai (w25), ex-founder at enspire (acq by empyrean)

Austin, Texas Joined Haziran 2010
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Boring_Business@BoringBiz_·
Chamath on why organizational charts tend to reward the wrong types of employees Rings very true from my experience as well. The more layers you have in a company, the more it accelerates the careers of individuals who are good at playing the corporate game Over time you create a loop where actual technical talent leaves due to lack of career mobility, until you are left with people who sound smart but can accomplish nothing
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Devin Pigera@dpigera·
@Austen made the switch to downtown after living for years in the south austin suburbs. worth it. Maybe something facing east? more peaceful
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Austen Allred
Austen Allred@Austen·
People who live walking distance to the office: Is it worth it?
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Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca·
Overheard in Silicon Valley: "LinkedIn is prison for middle managers."
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malekai@malekaimischke·
We asked Texas Sports Academy students to describe their school: - "This is the first year I've ever been happy after school" - "Moved up from 6th grade to 11th grade reading" - "2 homers and we've only played 4 games" - "I just want to be at school all the time" Texas Sports Academy students get 2 hours of AI-powered academics and 3 hours of elite sports training - all before the school day is over. Hear from our students:
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Lamar@LamarDealMaker·
A school built for student-athletes just became the fastest-growing in Texas. Fox Business just covered it. We built it. It's called Texas Sports Academy.
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Ethan Mollick@emollick·
AI really can help education: Randomized controlled experiment on high school students found a GPT-4o powered tutor that personalized problems for students raised final test scores by .15 SD, "equivalent to as much as six to nine months of additional schooling by some estimates"
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Devin Pigera@dpigera·
@posthog is your mcp server down? seeing a 'error 1101: worker threw exception'
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Ian Miles Cheong@ianmiles·
Marc Andreessen: There are two ways to think about education. One is at the national level — how do you educate all kids? But the real question is N = 1: what do you do for one individual kid? And for centuries, the answer has been obvious. If your goal is to maximize a single child, the best method by far is one-on-one tutoring. Every royal family knew this. Every aristocratic class knew this. It’s why Alexander the Great was tutored by Aristotle — and then took over the world. There’s actually statistical proof of this. The Bloom’s 2-sigma effect shows one-on-one tutoring can move a kid from the 50th percentile to the 99th percentile. No other educational method comes close. AI changes that. For the first time in history, every kid can have access to infinite questions, instant feedback, personalized explanations, and real-time quizzes — all at N = 1 scale. This is the most powerful shift in education we’ve seen in centuries. One-on-one tutoring was always the gold standard. AI is what finally makes it available to everyone.
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Austen Allred
Austen Allred@Austen·
My favorite product of the day: BuildMyIdea.com Submit a product idea you have, Kelly will choose one each day build it for you to production quality (with team putting in required finishing touches) in <48 hours You own it. BUT Each bid costs a non-refundable $1
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Creators@XCreators·
We know you’re anxiously waiting 👀 The $1M X Article winner will be announced early next week. We’ll be contacting the winner via X Chat from this account soon. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed thoughtful, compelling Articles.
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Devin Pigera@dpigera·
It’s a matter of time before this Gemini text box does everything your startup does.. with all the ui too
Google@Google

We’re launching full-length, on demand practice exams for standardized tests in @GeminiApp, starting with the SAT, available now at no cost. Practice SATs are grounded in rigorously vetted content in partnership with @ThePrincetonRev, and Gemini will provide immediate feedback highlighting where you excelled and where you might need to study more. To try it out, tell Gemini, “I want to take a practice SAT test.”

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Devin Pigera@dpigera·
@lennysan Really cool of you to share this Lenny! I love your podcast. Your talk with Nikita Bier might be an all time fav for me
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Lenny Rachitsky
Lenny Rachitsky@lennysan·
Here are the full transcripts from all 320 of my podcast episodes. It's been super fun for me to play with AI to extract insights from this data. Now you can to. My only ask is that if you do something cool with it, just let me know. I'll keep this folder updated with as each new episode comes out. Have fun. dropbox.com/scl/fo/yxi4s2w…
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Devin Pigera@dpigera·
unreal
Or Hiltch@_orcaman

Today we are launching @openwork_ai, an open-source (MIT-licensed) computer-use agent that’s fast, cheap, and more secure. @openwork_ai  is the result of a short two-day hackathon our team decided to hack, which brings together some of our favorite open source AI modules into one powerful agent, to allow you to: 1. Bring your own model/API key (any provider and model supported by @opencode is supported by Openwork) 2. ~4x faster than Claude for Chrome/Cowork, and much more token-efficient, powered by dev-browser by @sawyerhood (legend) 3. More secure - contrary to Claude for Chrom/Cowork, does not leverage the main browser instance where you are logged into all services already. You login only to the services you need. This significantly reduces the risk of data loss in case of prompt injections, to which computer-use agents are highly exposed. 4. Free and 100% open-source! You can download the DMG (macOS only for now) or fork the github repo via the link in bio (@openwork_ai). Let us know what you think (or better, send a pull request)!

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Devin Pigera@dpigera·
What have been the best context management strategies you’ve seen implemented? My most recent one on long-running AI agent convos is to leave the most recent N messages in tact and keep ‘compacting’ the previous messages with a vertical-specific prompt. Does well 98% of the time but the 2% when it fails is UGLY
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Matthew Cassinelli
Matthew Cassinelli@mattcassinelli·
@dpigera There’s been a few, but I intentionally choose not to push further because of the reliability – I wouldn’t want someone to rely on this and then have it not work. That’s basically on me for putting them into that situation.
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Devin Pigera@dpigera·
@mattcassinelli any tips on how to get past this error? testing out the anti-theft shortcut → (fyi: grok referred me to you as a shortcuts specialist)
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Devin Pigera@dpigera·
@mattcassinelli That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. Have you seen any similar automations built that solve this in a cleaner way?
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Matthew Cassinelli
Matthew Cassinelli@mattcassinelli·
@dpigera It only works if the phone is unlocked because it’s trying to take a picture. I tend not to recommend these because they are a viral idea but not realistic in practice.
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Devin Pigera@dpigera·
@AmericanExpress Howdy! Some feedback on a recent customer support/voice agent experience → - Signed into AMEX website and clicked Chat. Prompted me to sign in again. Fine. I clicked the chat icon again. It asked me to sign in again. I got stuck in a loop. - No biggie. I called customer support number. Voice agent answered. I verified my last four SSN and last five card digits. - The agent asked if I wanted a push or text to start a chat. I said yes. I waited. The agent said both options failed. - The agent tried to send me back to the main menu. I asked to speak to a human. I was finally put on hold. - While waiting, I was asked if I wanted to setup voice verification. I declined (With AI/Eleven Labs voice cloning out there?) - Finally spoke with a human. She was great. tl;dr: Been with you guys for years. Love everything you do. Customer voice agent could use some help.
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