Stephen O'Brien
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Stephen O'Brien
@steobrien
Product @tines_hq. Previously, cofounder @considerhq, engineering @intercom
Brookline, MA Katılım Mart 2008
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Stephen O'Brien retweetledi
Wild code is exploding across enterprises, AI-built apps, agents and automations touching sensitive data with no IT or security oversight.
Making that building safe by default is the unlock. It's why I joined Tines.
→ tines.com/wildcode
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When we started Zero, we weren’t even sure there _was_ a correct design for the kind of query-based sync engine we dreamed of. We spent two years finding that design, then hardening it for production use.
We always imagined a hosted version too, because (a) running a sync server is never going to be fun 😅, and (b) gotta make money!
Starting late last year, we were finally able to begin work on that hosted version. Initially it was invite-only and small, but we're now in production and syncing thousands of messages per minute for teams like @productlane, @passionfroot, and @shipper_crm.
Cloud Zero is production-grade Zero hosting from the team that built it:
- no servers to run or maintain
- 24/7 monitoring and alerts
- automatic zero-downtime updates
- fast NVMe-based architecture
- run as traditional SaaS or in your own AWS account
We’re onboarding manually, but it’s quick. And if you’re already self-hosting Zero, we’ll help migrate your setup.
Get started today at:
zerosync.dev/cloud
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Stephen O'Brien retweetledi
We fetched 871 articles published in the Guardian by Bryan Armen Graham over the last six years. It's clear that he is increasingly relying on AI.
In two weeks in February he churned out nine articles classified by Pangram as fully AI-generated.
Receipts below:
Max Tani@maxwelltani
A spokesperson for the Guardian says this is false: "Bryan is an exemplary journalist, and this is the same style he’s used for 11 years writing for the Guardian, long before LLM’s existed. The allegation is preposterous."
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@gavinjoyce Great little tool. `cal 2026` and `cal 9 2025` also handy.
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I usually use a `cl` alias to launch Claude code.
I mistyped `cal` just now and got this nice little calendar, I guess it's built in to OSX?
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14 years ago, four young Irish lads started a tiny software company
Thank you @destraynor @ciaran_lee @davebarrett ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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As much as I love shipping features, systems and performance wins just hit different! 🚀
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@ciaran_lee Give em great code for the weekend! (cc @lol_iveri)
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59 production deploys of our rails monolith already today. Median e2e deploy time is ~11 mins. Fridays are shipping days here.
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The product marketing of private jets (in this case @PilatusAircraft) is truly next level. It's aesthetically beautiful, deep in technical detail, and aspirational at every opportunity.
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Personal news: I’m a dad now! My wife and I are feeling very fortunate 😊
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@simonw We published our definition today, which aims to be precise and objective: tines.com/blog/a-litmus-…
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Does this community have a consensus opinion on precisely what the term "AI agents" means?
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@Padday Main benefit is surely that the thinking actually makes the answers better!
I think it’s interesting how R1’s approach actually has _less_ design than OpenAI’s clever obfuscation. It just prints tokens.
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Seeing DeepSeek 'think' and 'reason' is fascinating.
I think we'll increasingly see AI products expose what is happening in the background.
There are two benefits:
1. It shows that the product is really working.
2. It helps people understand how it works.
For (1) we've long exposed things that help people patiently wait, all the way back to % bars as computer games load.
For (2), AI is a very obscure technology and so there is a new design challenge to expose it's workings.
Here is a great example of DeepSeek working:
x.com/eleven21/statu…
John Schoenith@eleven21
DeepSeek R1. Pick a random number. If this doesn't show you where AI is at and is going, I don't know what will.
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@RonanKMcGovern Yep, agreed. Feels to me like the state should help startups by simplifying regulation, fixing options, shaping tax policy, etc. Not by trying to be an incubator.
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I'm unsure whether it's best for Irish entrepreneurship that governments fund startups...
Because:
a) startups do best when engaged with the market, and
b) government investment can crowd out early stage investment (more so than gov funding of early R&D)... BUT
1. It is energising to see entrepreneurs be proactive like this below.
2. I've met a few of the people below and am big fans
3. I hope to meet the rest of you
There is big é/lfg energy and I like it
will o’brien@Willob
Yes, we did this. This is us sending a message to the incoming government that we want Ireland to be a better place to build a technology company. We have a long way to go. Over 400 local founders, employing 8,000+ people, with €2.4 billion raised, want our government to take startups more seriously. We NEED to diversify our economy away from being a tax avoidance shop. Building homegrown technology businesses is the way we do this.
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@ciaran_lee US regulators had also signaled they would block.
Defund antitrust!
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A decent acquisition offer was on the table for them, but the Euros put a stop to it:
fortune.com/europe/2024/01…
It just seems so spiteful. Are consumers better served by this outcome? Am I as an owner of multiple of their products?
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The iRobot arc is so sad.
It was such a cool product decade ago. I guess they struggled with competition in the space though. Now they are in a bad way, and the share price is ~5% of its peak.
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“AI is whatever hasn't been done yet” — Larry Tesler
“Culture is everything we don’t have to do” — Brian Eno
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@bog_beef Hate speech component was removed: rte.ie/news/2024/0921…
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