Sean Knight

@Hesamation As an over-communicator, the transition has been great for me

you became a programmer to write high-quality code with zero communication skills, but now you must communicate with AI to “solve problems”.

@developedbyed Okay, this is pretty cool

Coming soon! One click add ASCII animations to your apps, with light dark mode support, adjustable qualities and framerates!

I've started to think of people describing AI products as "like magic" as a bad sign. Magic implies that you don't know how it works and you can't find out. Magic implies it's not auditable or explainable. Production AI won't be magic, it'll be boring.

It's a weird time to be working on an AI startup. The tech is moving so fast, it is hard to keep a grip on whether your startup still makes sense from one day to the next #BuildInPublic

@waynesutton I am. Using it as the full backend for our product at RubixCube.ai

If you’re using convex at work dm me please! Thank you!

Launching a new thing: RubixCube.ai

Giant robot hand demolishing cars at the @awscloud Re:Invent afterparty

"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect" - Teller

Visual AI workflow builders miss the point: AI agent development is about context, not flowcharts

This was one of my projects for the #30DayMapChallenge 2150 map. A cyberpunk WKT polygon viewer. Repo: github.com/SeanLikesData/… Live version: seanlikesdata.github.io/wkt_viewer_cyb… #geospatial #gis

I'll be at AWS Re:Invent next week. If you're going, reach out and let's grab a coffee.

@ImSh4yy 100% this

LLMs have gotten very good at writing code, but you still can't build non-trivial apps without understanding code yourself. Anyone who says otherwise is either selling you something or has no idea what they're talking about. That said, it has never been easier to learn how to code. You have access to the best language models for almost nothing and you can have them teach you anything you want. You're a couple of months of intentional learning away from being able to use LLMs to build non-trivial apps yourself.

A weird thing about the way we experience time and form our concept of self is that all of your memories of yourself are based on outdated information. Your self image is a lagging indicator.

The vast majority of AI Agent uses right now are replacing existing human activities. When looking for uses for AI we seem to be limiting our gaze to direct human substitutions rather than exploring what entirely new capabilities might be possible

We'll look back on this era of AI Agents and regret naming them that

I don’t like nested functions. So here's a small stylistic thing I do. I wrote a simple Python Class that allows you to define functions and then add them to a pipeline that works similar to how method calls work. #python #DataScience #dataengineering

Startup Idea: A job posting platform where a company has to report to the platform what resume’s they’ve reviewed and what interviews they’ve conducted. If they don’t do either, their listing gets taken down. No more applying to ghost job postings.

@auren @Life360 @ChrisHulls Or to put it more aggressively, I suspect that most of the people who created YC would not get accepted into YC today.

@auren @Life360 @ChrisHulls I suspect this is a consequence of the college→incubator pipeline. Startups used to get created by the outsiders who were smart in unstructured environments, e.g. they didn't excel in highly structured settings like college.

“the lean startup is one of the most toxic and terrible moves for Silicon Valley.” @Life360 $LIF CEO @ChrisHulls on why tech has outgrown the lean startup

@auren @Life360 @ChrisHulls Now you get into programs like YC by showing your education credentials and are immediately handed things to do that are structured like coursework I think the people starting startups now are a completely different group and personality type than those that created the industry