Chance Kelch

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Chance Kelch

@ChanceKelch

Used to work in tech. Still do, but used to, too. Building reliable AI systems. Prev Stripe, VP @StockX, 10yrs @Amazon.

Seattle, WA Katılım Ocak 2009
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Chance Kelch@ChanceKelch·
You’ve got this
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But KTLO + Tech Debt is cool when repackaged as AI Adoption.
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More often than not, AI is just the useful vehicle to closely inspect processes that everyone already knew were broken.
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I have been doing exactly this type of work the last few months, and honestly it’s super fun. Reminds me of the early process engineering days of my career. I have drawn more process diagrams in the last six months than in the last ten years combined.
Aaron Levie@levie

One corollary to the fact that AI agents take real work to setup in company at scale, is that the role of the forward deployed engineer -or whatever it gets called in the future- isn’t going away any time soon. When a vendor sells any kind of agents into an organization, you’re no longer just selling a software tool that gets implemented and you’re done. You’re fundamentally selling some form of the actual workflow being done by your technology. This is far closer to a customer buying from a professional services firm than implementing traditional technology. This will almost always require a deep understanding of the domain that the customer operates in, the ability to help a customer wire up their systems to support the agents, make sure all the context is setup in the right way, and help provide change management to actually get the company to adapt its business processes. The ability to do this across customers, figure out best practices in a specific industry and customer segment, take new features back to go build in the product, and so on is going to be key. There’s no shortcut to getting this work done by the enterprise, and the vendors are going to have to do a lot of this or risk low adoption. Finally, this is a big opportunity for existing and next gen professional services companies. There are all new practice areas emerging in every system integrator and consulting firm just to do this kind of work, and this is going to continue to be in demand for quite some time. Yet another example of jobs that aren’t actually going away.

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Claude code 500s… This is exactly why I have my entire workflow mirrored across Claude and Codex. It was effortless to pivot.
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@keter_slater except that it allows me to switch to the best in class model for the use case—which I use all the time.
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I am so happy I setup all my SDLC skills / hooks / agent instructions to work with either Anthropic or OpenAI because Claude Code is unusable this week.
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Allie K. Miller
Allie K. Miller@alliekmiller·
Almost 20,000 people have signed up for my free AI Agent Workshop tomorrow. I did NOT expect this. That number tells me something important though. There are a LOT of people out there who keep hearing about AI agents but haven't had a clear, jargon-free place to actually learn how they work. That's exactly why I built this. No coding required. No prior experience required. Just show up curious. I've spent years translating AI from engineering speak to business professional speak - at IBM, at Amazon, and now for millions - and this is the session where I (hope to) bring it to the world of AI agents. Tomorrow. March 25. 12pm ET. Free. events.alliekmiller.com If you've been waiting for the right moment to start - this is it.
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Allie K. Miller@alliekmiller·
I’m gonna be honest about Clawdbot. I’ve seen dozens of tweets on it, watched tons of videos, read whatever docs and guides I could find, and I’m with @omooretweets on this one. I’m glad tinkerers are loving it. I’m glad people cleaned up 10,000 emails or coded entire apps in their sleep or ElevenLabs’d their way into a dinner reservation. The killer feature for me is actually none of those things. It’s much simpler. It’s text. My phone is my primary device. Computer is secondary. My most inspired moments are when I’m on a walk or gazing out a car window, not when I’m slumped over some hotel desk chair. I’m constantly on the go, in an uber, at the airport, running to a meeting, grabbing 5min free here and there. I am dictating non-stop through all those moments. Always dictating. And so… I want to phone-in to Claude Code. Alas, as a decently technical non-engineer, I just don’t want to spend hours/days setting something new up right now (I can also appreciate that many in my same position have set it up and love it). I’m in a big dive deep moment with Claude Code and multi-agents, and I’m happy. Also, I still like manually reviewing and approving high risk tasks (like Claude grabbing a random GH repo). Maybe I’ll change my mind. Maybe one of you will change my mind. Or maybe Claude/ChatGPT releases all of this soon and I won’t have to wait. But if you’re one of the 2M people that follow me for my AI business takes, it’s this: I think Codex is built for SWEs atm, I think Clawdbot is too technical of a lift (and agree with @gregisenberg that someone could make bank bringing this into SMBs or startups), I think Claude Code is perfect for gung-ho lightly to heavily technical business users, and I think Claude Cowork is a great start for less gung-go but still very AI-curious non-technical business users. And I think all my answers change in 2-4 months anyways 😉
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@alliekmiller Gemini has been making so many mistakes for me on a really straightforward change for me. It’s tripping over itself with correcting errors. Sonnet 4.5 looked me at like, “put me in coach” and cleaned it up instantly.
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Allie K. Miller@alliekmiller·
Gemini 3, are you freaking kidding me. Vibe coded a sign language recognition app with video enabled, confidence scores, sampling settings, and tips in under 5 minutes. Code written with Gemini-3. Gemini-2.5 handling detection. Video is sped up 2x.
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Chance Kelch@ChanceKelch·
You don’t really learn AI by prompting it — you learn by wiring it into your workflow and seeing what breaks. Mine forgets constraints fast, so I added a canary test in .cursorrules: Ask “What’s the repo canary?” → it should reply “orchid-72.”
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edwin@edwinarbus·
This is my last week at Stripe. 🫡 I’m grateful for the past ~9 years—I learned a lot, met a bunch of smart people, and we were able to ship many things that I’m proud of. And as somebody who has a small snapshot of what’s to come, I’ll be cheering on from the sidelines for the future of Stripe and its millions of users. Stripe’s Community Comms team continues to be in excellent hands with @alypavs and @caitbhri. @freddiewilliams will now lead the team and we’re hiring a few new members, including the great @ndimichino. Next, I’ll be investing in more startups and working on a few new things, which I’ll share about soon.
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@IanColdwater I interviewed someone from Samsung once who was working on millimeter sonar that could detect facial expressions for marketing research
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New Turing test just dropped
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Chance Kelch@ChanceKelch·
@rchrdbyd Fortunately there is zero elevation change in Illinois, and basically two road until you get to Joliet where you can see downtown. Unless it is overcast, it is over for them.
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Richard Boyd
Richard Boyd@rchrdbyd·
@ChanceKelch nah, the number of farmers who've never left the county where they were born makes me think they'd get lost on the way to Chicago and accidentally invade Indianapolis
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Chance Kelch@ChanceKelch·
@IsForAt Genuinely one of my favorite pieces of hardware. I had an Amazon image on it, so completely bricked once I left.
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