Brent Summers (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈

I’ve always had ambition. As I’ve gotten older, my interest has shifted from being productive (copious outputs) to being strategic (delivering outcomes). I still enjoy creating. These days, I’m just much more intentional about what I’m creating and why.

@saschasegan Personal project or at work?

I've been experimenting with Claude Cowork and it's interesting, but so utterly profligate with tokens that I get told I've hit my token limit on every task. Is anyone working on agentic systems that are somewhat more token-efficient?

@businessbarista Job description and skills required to do it.

What’s your simplest, yet high fidelity definition of an agent harness? Get this question from non-technical execs all the time

@levelsio Do you actually have +88k email subscribers to this?

✨ To inspire more people to go build something now that we have AI to help us (especially non-tech people, cause I still know so many who are scared of building something): I added a [ BUILD IT ] button to IdeasAI.com It's like a mini-Lovable/Replit/v0: Any idea you see you like, you can click [ BUILD IT ], and it will use Opus 4.6 to build a landing page for it And then you can download the code it generated It's not a full startup of course, but a nice preview of what it can be, to give you an idea and inspire you to build it out further The code is live streamed also so you can see it being built 😊 Ironically this itself took me 1 hour to build with AI too Completely free and I pay for the tokens (please don't abuse it :D)

@levelsio I can!

Okay let's see who can reply to this

@icreatelife 👋👋

Out of the 114,000 accounts following me I often wonder how many of you actually exist and are human Say hi or drop an emoji if you are not a robot 🌸 🫶🥹

@levelsio I really think you’d like the product. Here’s a story about Matthew. ljcds.org/news-detail-?p…

@levelsio Check out Sunflower by Thaasa. They were at CES. Shipping soon. Can vouch for it. I know the founder. :) thaasa.com

Got this cute new air quality sensor in Brazil because we forgot ours at home It was $50, kinda cheap so we were already sus Then I tried it at home and in mall and it showed same exact values (hmmmm 🤔) Then I searched fake air sensor on YouTube and found my exact one 😂

@GamingNaRoli No. snopes.com/fact-check/ube…

Wait, Uber can see your battery percentage and if it's low, they charge you more? That's crazy. 😂

@sarah_edo This is really cool.

💥 I did a drawing that breaks down Transformers in AI Spent a good amount of time on this one, breaking down concepts in a way that someone new to the subject could come away with basic high-level understanding. I hope it's useful!

@businessbarista Compensation Analysis

Recording a Claude cowork walkthrough/review in 30. What tasks should I test on it?

@businessbarista There’s a massive pay difference between AI Strategists and the Engineers? Listing shows Eng making 2-4x (plus upside). Curious: Can your Strategists also make a “fuck ton” of money?

My cofounder spends 50% of his time in interviews convincing candidates why not to join our company. I think it's genius & more founders should do it. He'll say things like: - "I was here until midnight last night. Someone is always here until 10pm." - "A lot of the work is unsexy & mind-numbing." - "If you don't think about your work in your free time, we're probably not the right co for you." - "We do not believe in work life balance. That doesn't mean family & things aren't important. They are. But balance doesn't exist." This has absolutely caused candidates to pull out of the process. They concede that @tenex_labs probably isn't the best fit for them. It's a bold strategy & invites short-term pain, but it is SOOOO much better than the alternative.... Someone quits 3 months in because they didn't truly appreciate what they were signing up for. They're burnt out & disenfranchised. We've spent 3 months developing/supporting talent. And we need to gracefully transition client work to a different eng. It's a mess. Now, are there a lot of redeeming qualities that make working at our company great? Ofc. - You're part of a massive mission, to build a modern-day Bell Labs. - You'll learn more here than anywhere. Guaranteed. - You'll make a fuck ton of money (if you're good). - You'll work with the smartest, kindest, and most fun team of your life. But we need you to say yes with the clearest of eyes to all of the shitiness that lies ahead.

@felixleezd @ADPList Looks incredible! 🙋‍♂️

Design is the differentiator in AI era. Companies are waking up to the importance of having good design. Today, @ADPList is releasing an extraordinary collection of 90 winning design tactics used by the world's best products like Duolingo, Airbnb, Figma and more. This is a blueprint for design, proven by the best, and ready for you to use—we believe craft is eating the world. Want a copy? Just raise your hands below, I will send it to you!

My new beauty regimen

@raymmar @Replit @pirroh Great match 👏

Soooo…. I can finally share that I’ll be working with @Replit to help scale their global community. 🚀🚀 Few months back I sent a DM to @pirroh told him I was born for this moment and that he should give me a chance. And he did! 💪🏽 Honestly feels a little surreal. Excited to be working with the legendary @Franciscocrz and the rest of this amazing team The community around this product is electric and I can’t wait to help take it to the next level. P.s. Shoot your shoot and share your work... You never know who’s watching.

@kevinroose @CaseyNewton Long time listener. Would love for y’all to cover @Get_Writer. 🤓

@round Spe-fu ftw

i refuse to even call it ‘sci-fi’ anymore, it’s simply speculative futurism

@zendadddy Shared my team’s AI adoption story on 6 different stages.

brag about something you're proud of accomplishing in 2025✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

@RyanCohen24 SD FTW

will never, ever get sick of this

@levelsio Does @sfcompute work for your needs?

🇪🇺 As a European citizen and AI founder, I can apparently use these "AI Factories", so I just signed up to use them! Every "supercomputer" has an [ ACCESS NOW ] button which made me very excited I expected to sign up, maybe pay a discounted H100 rate (funded by EU, that'd be nice?) and get a Jypyter notebook, or some SSH login so I can access my GPU like I'd do on @lambdaapi or @awscloud or @Hetzner_Online But I celebrated to early, I signed up, confirmed my email, then ended up in a "Supercomputer Access Calls" page, where I had to select from a tedious list of "Call For Proposals" to get access to a GPU So I could NOT just access a H100 GPU, I have to make sure my project (in this case my business) fits a specific proposal, ok fair This process was already tedious enough but then when I tried to actually go through with it, it started asking me if I had "Respect for Human Agency?", I do I think, and if I was mindful of "Individual, and Social and Environmental Well-Being?", well I am, right guys??? Right??? The questions didn't stop, just endless pages of this Look I get what they're doing, they pivoted the classic university "I need to rent a giant computer for my research" to an EU wide thing and then present it as the "European AI plan" But this isn't really how AI works in production? As a founder in AI, if I wanna do stuff I'd rent a whole bunch H100 GPUs again at @lambdaapi or @awscloud or @Hetzner_Online and SSH into a box Or if I want it more simple I run AI models on @FAL, @wavespeed or @replicate which is just an API call or web front end I can click stuff and run a model The EU has the right intentions here but it's just the wrong execution, this thing will 100% go nowhere, and I'm a born optimist, I want to believe, I'm also a proud European, and I'm in AI a bit and not a complete idiot. There's just better ways to do this If you really want to have the GPU servers in Europe (which arguably isn't that important), then let me rent a GPU box with SSH access at @Hetzner_Online or @OVHcloud that's hosted in Europe and subsidize that for European citizens and European businesses. I don't even believe in that, but at least that'd make it accessible for Europeans. Now it really isn't? What's REALLY much more important though if you want to be a part of the AI race and I've posted for years here with @euaccofficial is to make Europe a really extremely attractive place to start and run an AI business. Remove regulatory obstructions and give tax discounts for startups. Let them build a business first that can compete worldwide and once they make enough money (let's say $100M/y), then slowly start adding regulation. Because right now the regulation only benefits the European incumbents, the dinosaur companies, while making it very difficult for European citizens to start new AI companies here. Which is why we literally have none left. Anyway, I applied to get my GPU, let's see if I get it!