Tai Rattigan

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Tai Rattigan

@XOptimiser

Founder at @partnerleaders 🚀 Prev: @deel @amplitude_hq @optimizely - Grappling fan 🤼‍♂️

Seattle, WA Katılım Haziran 2014
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Tai Rattigan@XOptimiser·
The grass is greener where you water it. Take that new idea energy and put it into making your existing thing work better. Compound.
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Tai Rattigan@XOptimiser·
‘The signal was clear’ is oddly overused by AI writing. Universal tell across all models.
Rohan Varma@rohanvarma

Cursor’s new alpha product, Glass, shipped 9 months late and is a case study in the innovator’s dilemma. The inverse of what’s happening at Codex is exactly why I’m bullish on OpenAI. 9 months ago, I did a lot of user research on Claude Code as it started gaining traction. The signal was clear: people loved running agents in a separate terminal surface, but the lack of UI created friction. We built a new agent control plane, separate from the IDE, called Agent Window. It felt like the natural next interface to work with agents. Then we got a mandate from above to ship it as a part of the IDE and not as a separate window. That broke the model. Writing code and orchestrating agents are fundamentally different jobs. Developers still needed both, and collapsing them into one surface diluted both. What shipped instead was Agent Mode inside the IDE, a watered-down version of the original vision. By launch, the pitch was how similar it felt to the IDE, which missed the point entirely. Now, 9 months later, Cursor Glass is here. But the window has already shifted. I talk to dozens of companies every week, and most don’t even mention Cursor in their AI coding stack anymore. It’s Claude Code and Codex. Cursor is still widely used, but as an IDE, not a coding agent. Meanwhile at OpenAI, the Codex App started as a hackathon project. The team saw the future and just shipped it. Now it’s used by millions of developers. You can just build things. You should just ship things.

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Dimitrios@dimitrioskonst·
@SIGKITTEN You see this the wrong way. If sales people can sell the worst CRM in existence their job selling Anthropic products will be walk in the park
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SIGKITTEN@SIGKITTEN·
Anthropic getting a lot of ex-Salesforce sales guys gives you a pretty good idea of what things are gonna look like
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Tai Rattigan@XOptimiser·
I have a book at my desk I read a couple of pages of during long AI runs. Lots of people going for walks and still using their AI. Early signals of potential lifestyle improvements I think. Late night/less sleep sessions obviously the inverse signal.
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Tai Rattigan@XOptimiser·
The hardest part about doing consulting-style work as an operator is knowing the size of the impact it would have if you just did it, vs recommending clients do it. There is still a ton of valuable impact to be had, but it is a much lower probability than just doing the work.
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Tai Rattigan@XOptimiser·
Very bizarre. All of a sudden Opus is just going rogue make mistakes, skipping steps, doing trash work. I've run this successfully a ton of times in the past, but now Claude seems to be getting really 'anxious' that things are taking too long.
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Tai Rattigan@XOptimiser·
@CGarrett_15 Reduce the burden of going public so more companies IPO and give retail investors access to upside
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Tai Rattigan@XOptimiser·
@AndrewCurran_ This is a pretty bizarre story to make the press, every company wants to sell to the enterprise. OpenAI are on the back foot. Go do it, don’t talk about doing it.
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Tai Rattigan@XOptimiser·
@stephanie_vee Yes! Let me figure out how I can do that! My best bud claude is working on it as we speak 😂
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Tai Rattigan@XOptimiser·
We successfully played my murder mystery game this weekend! Over the last ~2 months I used Claude code to build ‘the disappearance of Vincent Mangano’, a ridiculously intricate RPG with player backstories, clues, documents, websites etc. AI is going to enrich our lives even more than we can possibly imagine!
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Tai Rattigan@XOptimiser·
@danielpearson 😂 thank you for battling flight cancellations to get here! Made it that much better!!!
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Tai Rattigan@XOptimiser·
What’s interesting is this started out as a search for a Murder Mystery Game company in Seattle, there was only one I could find and it seemed a bit too tacky. I genuinely would have just paid someone to do it but the service didn’t exist. This is the trend for AI, I expect.
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Pete Hunt 🚁
Pete Hunt 🚁@floydophone·
Was anyone else underwhelmed by Claude cowork?
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Tai Rattigan@XOptimiser·
I've spent the last 3 weeks designing an extremely intricate Murder Mystery game together with my AI buddy - backstories, clues, print-outs, props, etc. Tonight I have 22 people coming over to play it, and I will discover if it's good or if I have AI psychosis.
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Sully@SullyOmarr·
serious question how does everyone keep up with all the new releases basically every day i open this app and there 5 new agents/clis/tools that I “need to try”
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Thariq@trq212·
@tylerangert is this the first time it happened? or has it happeened in earlier versions?
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Tyler Angert
Tyler Angert@tylerangert·
hey @trq212 there's a bug in CC where after approving a plan claude will keep asking you to reapprove the plan or it mistakenly thinks you want to make edits to the plan
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Tai Rattigan@XOptimiser·
@juliey4 @IterIntellectus 100% - the hospital staff struggled to hide their terror when we told them to not wake us up and that well our giant healthy baby when she wakes up.
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Julie Young@juliey4·
@IterIntellectus lol it's funny on your second baby though bc they'll be like "you need to WAKE THEM UP to eat also DO NOT use a pacifier bc it will CONFUSE THEM" and you can just laugh in their face instead and take a nap
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vittorio@IterIntellectus·
the unspoken rule of postpartum nursing is that you must know everything and nothing at the same time. know too little and they look at you like you’re endangering your child. know too much and they look at you like you’re questioning their authority. the acceptable range of parental knowledge is whatever they personally believe, told back to them with revering deference. like when nobody told us our daughter needed to eat every three hours the first few days. when she slept three and a half hours the head nurse looked at us like we’d committed a geneva convention violation. sad how deep down the medical system wants compliant patients who look informed enough to not require extra paperwork​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ but uninformed enough to do whatever they have been told to say basically you need to figure things out on your own but when dealing with “professionals” pretend like you don’t know anything and they are your own messiah
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Brett Berson@brettberson·
Zipline has always done things the “wrong” way. They launched a drone company when drones were essentially illegal in the US. They moved the whole team to trailers on a farm in Half Moon Bay to figure out how to fly. Their launcher was deep sea fishing poles from Walmart. Their landing pads were made by a bouncy castle company. They went to Rwanda with no aviation experience, no logistics experience, no healthcare experience. Co-founder and CEO @Keller wore tennis shoes and a hoodie to meet the president of the country. The night before the launch, he was on his back in the dirt with a screwdriver in his mouth, trying to rebuild a launcher that kept destroying itself, while the president's special forces watched. The aircraft flew. Keller was just as surprised as everyone else. Nine months of all-nighters after that Rwanda launch, they got one hospital working reliably. Then 20 more in three months. Then 50. Then 400. Today Zipline serves 5,000 hospitals globally and has flown 135 million autonomous miles. To find the best hardware builders in the world, Zipline often hires teenagers. Not as interns fetching coffee — as engineers who own real work. One kid joined at 15 and got offered $180K to lead a team of mechanical engineers instead of going to Stanford. He took it. Another applicant had built a full GPS system for a 3D-printed quadcopter using onboard Nvidia GPUs. While at boarding school. Keller's question for candidates: what have you built? Keller summarized everything in one line: "We specialize in turning the impossible into the merely late." He shares Zipline’s wild origin story in full in our conversation on In Depth. Timestamps: 02:11 Why Zipline doesn't hire for experience 06:04 Are founders born or made? 07:37 Why Zipline hires 17-year-olds over PhDs 17:03 The employees Zipline doesn't want 18:53 The ultimate startup hire is a "heat-seeking missile" 20:36 Why blind references are a non-negotiable 23:07 Can candidates admit when they screwed up? 30:10 Zipline's secret leadership playbook 35:16 Why you should always fire quickly 36:26 The early vision for Zipline 39:48 How Zipline almost died - twice 44:55 From toy robots to drone delivery: Zipline's pivot 51:35 How Rwanda's health minister changed everything 57:10 Why Zipline's launch was a "complete disaster" 1:04:05 Scaling from 1 hospital to 5000 1:05:17 The 10x hardware cost rule every founder should know
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Tai Rattigan@XOptimiser·
The most valuable AI adoption in my company has come from making Slackbots, which kick off agent workflows. This one will analyze any CSV and come up with analyst insights and areas for exploration. Much easier than trying to teach Claude Code to everyone.
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