Imran Khawaja

Treating others with respect and showing empathy is a quality I've seen in the best teams I've worked with. Jerks fails in the long run. #teamwork #empathy

@maverickecom System

Clawdbot + Kling = 550 videos per day No actors. No products in hand. No ghost creators. No missed deadlines. Just viral TikTok Shop sales — 24/7. Here’s the crazy part: This system produces 550+ cinematic, product-ready ads per day from a single prompt. Here’s the full pipeline: → AI generates a realistic UGC persona — face, voice, personality → Arcads clones a natural voiceover in seconds → CapCut auto-edits: captions, pacing, hooks — done → our phone farm method pushes every finished video straight to TikTok Shop → Cruva Social 1 identifies which hooks are already winning in your niche before you film anything The result: 500+ videos a month, per brand, at a fraction of what one UGC creator used to cost. Most brands are still paying $300–500 per video. Testing 10 hooks takes $5,000 and three weeks. With this system, you test 100 hooks in the same timeframe. The ones that win get scaled. Automatically. AI is the new creative director. TikTok doesn’t reward the best video. It rewards the brand that shows up the most — with content that converts. Static agencies are dead. Creator dependency is a liability… and it’s soooo 2025. No more waiting on creators. No more $500 videos that flop after 200 views. The brands that automate content at scale will be the biggest winners of 2026. If you want the full breakdown: Like & comment “SYSTEM” I’ll send you the complete workflow, every prompt, and a step-by-step walkthrough. Free. (Follow first so I can DM.)

@arvidkahl Kettlebells

Okay, enough sitting in front of a computer, slowly atrophying. Dog walks aren't enough. I'm building a home gym. What should I start with?

@svpino I went through an earlier cohort and can confirm it’s worth it! It’s great that you can purchase once and attend all future cohorts as well! I’m looking forward to dropping in on cohort 12!

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@bryan_johnson benjamin button style :)

New achievement unlocked: 0.64 speed of aging. I am aging slower than: + 100% of all 30-60 yr old males + 99% of 20 yr old males How slow is that? I only age 7.6 months every 12 months. How low can we go?

@LBacaj myaimonk.com

@LBacaj Very true. I've used it recently to start up projects in areas I wasn't familiar with. I created a AI Monk Telegram bot over the weekend. Previously I would have spent many more days to get started. t.me/AiMonk_bot

There are big incentives at play now to make AI work even better than it currently does. I am operating with the assumption that stuff that’s pretty good now will likely be optimized to be great soon. I think you should probably operate with that assumption too.

@levelsio Ha 🙃reminds me of the phrase “git push get paid!” I like your interpretation of LGTM!

So for years I thought LGTM meant "Let's Get The Money" and I thought everyone around me was very ambitious But it means "Looks Good To Me" 😅😅😅

@LBacaj I’ve seen this as well building a therapy/advice bot. Will likely look to move off OpenAI.

An observation from using LLM tech in our products in smallbets.com is the models become significantly dumber & less useful the more they are moderated. Moderation seems to cut off entire paths it could go down. Ofc, OpenAi is a black box but I’ll argue as moderation went up, GPT4 got worse at normal requests.

@ShaanVP Great episode. A big takeaway on goals is: not having investors/board to answer to is liberating. Having worked at VC backed companies goals and forecasts is always assumed. The tension grows as the expectations and desire to predict the future increase as the stakes rise

this podcast ad a bunch of nuggets: 1. The story of negotiating his deal with jeff bezos 2. Jason's "no goals" and "no long term plans" system that still built a $100m+ company 3. Nerding it up about landing pages & writing 4. making fun of him about his $26M house purchase being public info :) As someone who's followed @jasonfried for a long time, and a huge admirer of his craftsmanship (products, blogs, books). This was a lot of fun. next tweet for the linky dink

@levelsio Try gpt4all.io/index.html works great

Any LLM stuff I should download on MacOS before going on a 10 hour flight? I already have LMStudio and Mistral etc.

@ramannoodlez Great suggestion! Do you have any you would reccomend?

1. Join an agency Fractional agencies have popped up in the last few years. They do the search + match for you. It’s the easiest way to find a client — it’s how I started. Cons are they take a % of income + it can take a while (months!) before they find a client for you.

Most common question I get about becoming a Fractional CTO: How do you find clients? What most people don’t understand is, you need to go from being a software engineer or eng leader to becoming a salesman. And a good one at that! Here’s some ways I’ve found clients:

@travisstreet_ 👋🏽

@dvassallo imrankhawaja.gumroad.com/l/vitalquestio… Questions engineers should ask during their interview process. Pay what you want!

Are you selling something with a discount today? Tell us about it below 👇

@LBacaj congrats on pushing. I love the idea behind gift cards for smallbets

15 years of hardcore software development, some of it in the grungiest garages & scariest basements, have hardened my coding skills. Toughened up under those conditions, not only do I deploy on Friday. But I just deployed on Black Friday. I hope the day comes when you get to deploy on the year's busiest day, too.

@charlierward @Replit I do think it’s great to start MVPs and maybe more! I was able to create a simple summarizer chrome extension. Documented it here github.com/imrank1/aiassi…

Everyone’s laughing at all the ChatGPT threads, but I (a man who can’t code), just built and shipped a functioning and IMO useful Chrome Extension in ~45 minutes using just that and @Replit - it was the weirdest feeling ever.

@LBacaj 💯 this is great insight . It happens all the time . New leadership brings in their own guard . We are witnessing it real time with Twitter.

A phenomenon I saw at the Big Banks: Whenever a new Managing Director took over an org, first thing they did is fire everyone loyal to the old MD. Tech & business. Like a new lion taking over a pride, all the old cubs were in danger. You never wanted to be a cub still left.

@dvassallo @Delta They should call it “impossible to eat” 😜. It’s just not real.

Today I was on an international flight with @Delta and they tried to feed me synthetic “impossible” meat 🤮

These are just some questions you can ask to get an insight into the team. I've compiled a list of questions here that you should ask : imrankhawaja.gumroad.com/l/vitalquestio… It's free. Let me know what you think!

How do they grow their team members? What challenges has the team recently faced? How will they determine if you are a successful?

As an engineering manager I've interviewed 100+ engineers to join my teams. Most of the interview is geared around if you are good fit for the team. As a candidate how do you determine if the manager and team is a good fit for you? Here's how