Sydney Wingender

teenage engineering is just taking advantage of the fact that industrial design has gotten so vapid that people will pay outlandish sums of money for anything demonstrating a hint of authenticity

@jasonfried Here’s my email: sydney@tedy.app

@jasonfried I can’t DM you because you don’t follow me!

@jasonfried Anything you can sneak peek from BC5? Super psyched about trying out for my team!

@glazeapp can I haz accs plz 🙏

Build your own Spotify 🎶

@karrisaarinen @tobi @linear We’d love to give it a try at Tedy!

Good read on the value shared organizational intelligence @tobi This matches what we’ve been seeing with the @linear Agent, and honestly I think the industry forgot what organizations are for, working together from a shared understanding. We're to starting to see this puzzle and full loop to come together on Linear where organizational leverage that comes from captured context, shared understanding & agent systems. AI discourse has focused on personal agents and individual efficiency, like how this skill or markdown file works for me, this custom agent I built. But what about your team, what about when you leave the company or the team? Where does the customer feedback come from? Where are the discussions or decisions managed? Who changed what? Organizations run on shared understanding, and I believe more leverage will be found in these shared systems where context persists and improvements compound across the team. Linear Agent can work in Linear, Slack, in GitHub, and across other systems. Linear both the context store and a way to action on it. It can capture and organize information from different sources (support tools, gong calls, slack, mcp etc), read code, write code, connect to external systems, open PRs, show diffs live, and support review inside the same workflow. Everything stays in the same loop. You can see that in how our team uses it. - A lot of the time people drop findings, feedback, or early notes into project channels and ask Linear for more context, or a first pass. This starts a discussion on the change, not just the change. Anyone looking at the PR has the same connection to the initial discussion. - The agent debugs customer problems by looking at context and the codebase. - New bugs in triage all now start with Linear Agent reading the codebase (beta), debugging and writing fix (beta). Around 30% of our bugs now get solved this way. In the last 30 days, Linear Agent opened about 1,330 PRs. The other thing we’ve seen is that the system gets better as people use it. We’ve been iterating on our bug-debugging prompt together. A bug debug prompt does not as the team wants it, the team discusses it in Slack, and then asks Linear to update the prompt based on that discussion. The learning gets folded back into the system instead of staying with one person. Discussions on features get more context by mentioned Linear. What are the customers saying about this feature? What were our decisions on this project before? What is the state of this project? Then everyone else has the same learnings or context. I use it for most of my own work now too: getting customer briefs before calls, evaluating features, getting a technical read on scope, writing investor updates, fixing UI issues, building features, and following on project progress. It does not feel like a separate AI tool off to the side, it feels more like I'm accessing the company brain, and the context from all of the operations. If you’re interested in the full capability beta, let me know!

@aesofaces @karrisaarinen @linear I mean… He’s Linear’s CEO, that might explain it

@karrisaarinen @linear Interesting but why linear and not say notion or Google Docs with Gemini

Surprisingly, found a nice way to write with AI: 1) apple notes for the raw draft 2) @linear agent to shape, iterate with my writing guidance 3) asking to create a doc to read, edit, comment on, and share No more endless chat stream, full rewrites, or slow, blocky writing

@theo @grok context?

A letter to my friends at Anthropic I hate that I feel obligated to do this. I hate that I've had to be so harsh towards Anthropic for the past few months. I really, really don't want to. I know it might feel like I'm doing this for clicks or something, but I promise I'm not. My pro-Anthropic content ALWAYS outperforms my anti-Anthropic content. I have cost myself a lot of money, opportunities, sponsors, and more. I'm doing this because you work for an evil cult. I'm begging you to wake up. Your CEO, Dario, does not respect engineers. This is obvious. He couldn't make it more obvious if he tried (and I think he's trying pretty hard) You know this, but you don't want to acknowledge it. It has kept you up many nights. You know that bad code is shipping to users. You know that one bad tweet might get you fired. You fear for your vesting schedules. You're afraid. Nobody deserves what you're going through right now. You go to work afraid, you leave work afraid, and you go to YouTube to keep up on the dev world, just to hear me yelling all about how evil your company is. You deserve better. You might not feel like you do, but you know deep down that this isn't right. I hope you know how deeply I feel for you. I'm sorry. I know I haven't helped you much individually, and I want to be better about this. If you're ready to leave, please hit me up. I swear I'll never tell a soul. I have friends at every lab and most startups in the AI world. Most of them would be down to match your current vesting schedules, possibly even go beyond. If you're staying for the money, I beg you to hit me up. We can make the money happen somewhere that hates you less. I know I'm asking for a lot of trust here, and that you're scared after seeing how hard I've been on Anthropic. I can't blame you at all for that. I should have posted something like this months ago. That's my failure to own and I will own it to my best ability. If you're willing to trust me in this moment, I can make it right. Let me help you escape. You deserve to work somewhere that you can have impact. Somewhere that listens when you feel something is wrong. Somewhere that won't fire you when you point out the things that hurt your users. My DMs are always open to you. When you're ready, let me know. I promise to make it right.

@GrahamJCampbell Same here!

Claude is down. Sadj.

your db query is slow? just add this! boom, now you are ai-native instead of lazy!

These types of tweets are insufferable.

@clairevo "Sometimes you bake banana bread, barefoot in the kitchen, but then someone drops something and someone else hasn’t slept and there’s yelling and tears but the bread turns out ok." That’s beautiful poetry, @clairevo

My biggest problem with parenting-as-aesthetic is it has no humility. When we pretend we can curate our family journey and kids’ childhoods into vignettes, we forget that the most meaningful parts of raising kids can’t be chosen or styled. We don’t get to pick who our kids are or what they struggle with or if they get really, really sick or when they have a hard time. We can’t guard them from heartbreaks or accidents. We can curate their toys until the ugly loud plastic one makes them giggle incessantly. We can pick their outfits until they decide that one horrendous team jersey is the only thing they’ll wear for months (ask me how I know.) Sometimes you bake banana bread, barefoot in the kitchen, but then someone drops something and someone else hasn’t slept and there’s yelling and tears but the bread turns out ok. As a parent you’ll realize you don’t wish for your life to be beautiful or whimsical or luxe, you’ll be grateful your kids are healthy, pray they make friends, be glad you can feed and house them and they’ll never know how lucky they are that it all seems effortless. You’ll cry that you can’t take away their unique struggles. It will go too fast, and you’ll be glad you have a million ugly photos of yourself holding because they were so so little. You’ll realize your aspirations are simple: happy, healthy, yours.

@jorgemanru Wait until you try properties with Bases, it’s a game changer.

The only app I really missed when I left macOS was Bear (for notes). It took me a while, but Obsidian turned out to be a great replacement. At first, I struggled because I kept using hierarchical tags the same way, but the key was switching to folders to organize my notes instead. Markdown files in folders feel like the right foundation for storing notes, and how well this works with agents really proves the point. As an example: last week, I used Claude to summarize several YouTube videos into rich Markdown notes in Obsidian, with screenshots included. I couldn't do that with Bear before!

Est-ce que quelqu’un peu me confirmer qu’il voit ce tweet en anglais?

@yacineMTB Have you heard of X

Delete Instagram. Every time I accidentally open it. It's fucking demonic man

five words. 20 years. unfinished.

@travisirby websites, but for people who want to read them

@trq212 @sidin God bless her

@sidin we have an amazing docs person but she’s not very online :)

Every time Anthropic launches a new Claude feature, and they do it like three times a week, I run to check the documentation. And every single time they have documentation ready. It is actually amazing. Really amazing.

@getfiscal Woah, they're amazing haha! That's really a Quebec thing

Oh man these new stamps are cool. Maple syrup cabins in the winter woods, popular in Quebec. (Also the Eid ones I retweeted a bit ago.)

It does bother me that it costs money to code now