Steve Pereira - Flow Engineering

Organize intentionally in 4 ways: 1. Organize towards value. 2. Organize within value streams. 3. Organize to minimize dependencies. 4. Organize to maximize capabilities. #FlowEngineering makes this a straightforward practice. #valuestreammapping #wardleymapping

@GergelyOrosz This shouldn't be happening. There should be a default mode on all these services that does a quick triage to route requests based on complexity until you define your own rubric or disable it. It's way too easy to even voluntarily set it to max and then forget about it.

I am hearing tons of complaints from Cursor customers at enterprise companies: A silent change put almost all models Cursor uses behind Max mode. Devs who used to manage to “spread out” monthly credits over a month see all of it used up in 1-2 days. Are furious + switching.

*grabs popcorn* Apps are 1% shipping v1 (f-ing around), and 99% dealing with the consequences (finding out) Once again, building software has never been the bottleneck

@GergelyOrosz The Web 2.0 graveyard is already full of the bodies of these apps 😂

Cannot wait for teams that build their custom JIRA/Workday replacement/custom CRM to one day turn around and ask: “Why do we have so much internal software that is buggy / has poor UX + we need to maitain?” Seen this movie well before AI, when Uber built uChat (custom Slack)

@toddsaunders Why not hold them accountable?

We all knew this was coming… but today I heard about it actually happening. A seed stage company backed by a well known VC openly admitted (in a board deck) that their strategy is to get access to a large incumbent’s software from a customer, clone the entire thing using Claude Code, and offer it at 90% less. Not “build something better.” Just copy it and offer it for less. The VC endorsed this as the GTM strategy. And even wrote back in writing that it was a good idea. Using a customer’s licensed access to reverse engineer a product and clone it is ethically bankrupt. I don’t know how else to put it. It likely violates terms of service. It may violate trade secret law as well (but I’m certainly not a lawyer). And a reputable VC putting this in writing in a board deck is genuinely insane. But it’s going to happen anyway. Everywhere… all the time. I don’t know where this ends, but we all knew this was coming and now it’s here.

The greatest way for a hotel chain to gain and retain my loyalty would be to let me set a preference for not having my sheets tucked in.

@ClearThinkinAi @ylecun 🤢

Yann LeCun just left Meta. And raised $1.03B on day one. That's not a startup launch. That's a statement. The man who spent years arguing AGI wasn't coming anytime soon just bet a billion dollars on building something closer to it. When the skeptic becomes the founder, pay attention.

Unveiling our new startup Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs). We just completed our seed round: $1.03B / 890M€, one the largest seeds ever, probably the largest for a European company. We're hiring! [the background image is the Veil Nebula - a picture I took from my backyard, most appropriate for an unveiling] More details here: techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/yan…

@ToddHagopian What's also incredible about VSM is that even utilization is often 90% waste. If your contributors need to battle unclear requirements, rework, interruptions, etc - your utilization is just measuring how much time you spend wading through a swamp, not building value.

Value stream mapping reveals hidden bottlenecks. One division needed 17 signatures for routine changes! Sketching it out exposed 31% utilization and a 9-day decision cycle. #LeanThinking #Efficiency

@jaltma There’s always a spot for the next Kyle Reese 🙌🫠

I might be too much of an optimist but I just don’t buy the permanent underclass thing. I just think no matter how smart AI gets, there’s no way a motivated person will wake up each day and be unable to contribute to society.

@GayOliveGarden Why?

if canada had high speed rail between toronto, montreal and halifax we'd be the greatest country on earth

@Pirat_Nation Obviously he loves it because it drives demand for his products, Linux doesn’t. Yes it’s very important, but his bias is clear here.

NVIDIA’s CEO says OpenClaw did in 3 weeks what Linux took 30 years to achieve "OpenClaw is probably the single most important software release ever. If you look at its adoption, Linux took some 30 years to reach this level. OpenClaw, in what is it, 3 weeks, has now surpassed Linux. It is now the single most downloaded open-source software in history, and it took just 3 weeks."

@ycombinator @Heypocket @AkshayNarisetti @gabrieldymowski Hilarious

Pocket (@heypocket) is your notetaker for real world meetings. In the last 5 months, the team has delivered over 30k units with a $27M annualized run rate, growing 50% month over month. Congrats on the launch, @AkshayNarisetti and @gabrieldymowski! ycombinator.com/launches/PaX-p…

@HarryStebbings Totally cooked. Regardless of value this the equivalent of retail vs Amazon. There’s no way for point solution to compete with pure agents using end-to-end value streams.

Monday.com was once valued at $15BN. Today with $1.3BN in ARR and $1.5BN in cash, Monday is valued at just $3.8BN. A 70% decline. One of the hardest hit public SaaS companies. Today I sat down with Monday CEO, Eran Zinman, to ask the really hard questions that no one is asking. Spotify 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/5rt1cG… Youtube 👉 youtu.be/zjcYlEiwnKI Apple Podcasts 👉 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/20v… @zzeran

@TheChiefNerd Sacks can’t understand nuance when it comes to obvious scenarios that don’t fit his narrative, and you could drive a truck through the room he gives to anything that fits his narrative. He’ll criticize a company making rational decisions and then defend trump being a lunatic.

🚨 DAVID SACKS: “Anthropic has a job listing for a software engineer on their website right now for $570,000 … So what Anthropic is saying is they're still trying to hire software engineers, at a very high wage, but somehow they think these jobs are going to be eliminated.”

@HistoryBoomer @NYCMayor This looks insane. Multiple screens and readers, literal duct tape, fine print signs all over.

Here’s something the Euros do better. Tap your credit card, pay 1.2€, and get a well-maintained public toilet. Hello @NYCMayor ? Can’t we have this?

@snowmaker @paulg What’s your use case for automated signup?

Even the best developer tools mostly still don't let you sign up for an account via API. This is a big miss in the claude code age because it means that claude can't sign up on its own. Putting all your account management functions in your API should be tablestakes now.

@BobSummerwill Ah I see, very cool!! Thanks for sharing this and the trip down memory lane!!

@SteveElsewhere All happening within my OpenClaw setup, with the qwen models for the sub-agents. All the coordination is done by the Opus orchestrator. To your question - nothing explicit for that, no. (Greetings from 2015, btw, when I still had some hair, though you did not!)

Everyone's talking about running AI locally. Here's my actual 24/7 setup — and it cost $1,400. Hardware: 2x RTX 3090s (48GB VRAM). Running Qwen3-Coder-Next — an 80B MoE model that rivals Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks. Completely local. Zero API costs for subagents.

@BobSummerwill Very cool! What app do you use for the handoff and how is it handled? Do you have a way of instructing qwen3 agents to reach out to Claude for decisions, reviews or analysis?

The architecture: "Opus thinks, qwen3 does." Claude Opus 4.6 is the brain. Local GPU models are the hands. Main session stays lean. Heavy work gets spawned to local subagents.

@jasonlk Who leads all the staff and drives the vision down to actionable detail?

I am against Chief Product and Technology Officers Why? In theory, it makes a lot of sense But in practice ... they generally are neither They don't code, and they aren't close to the product. They just want to be strategists. They don't want to do the work. You don't need that I don't even think Oracle needs that Hire one of these, you will lose in the Age of AI

@KSimback @openclaw “Cost comparison (why this setup saves money) Estimated monthly cost: $5–20/month (down from $50–150 with Opus 4.6)” Hilariously useless

I’ve now done a half dozen @openclaw installs across home machines and VPS - this is really the best overall guide If you’re not sure which VPS provider to use, I wrote an article comparing them (link in comments)