Ashley Serenity Liu

just wanna do intellectually challenging sh!t w/ my friends | in pursuit of original thought, ideas & peeps

[Chris Pisarski @chrispisarski]

ok so Claude Fable 5 is really really good at finding warm intro paths for sales/GTM

we have an internal benchmark/skill that uses our MCP for the data but gives claude freedom on picking the right filters and being creative

i asked it to find me a warm connection at McKinsey. it found people who studied at the same school, same year, worked at the same jobs, engaged with my content before & built a full map

by far the best warm intro paths a claude model has found so far

[Ashley Serenity Liu @ashleysliu]

@chrispisarski I love your sales tweets lol

always helpful

[Ashley Serenity Liu @ashleysliu]

@shreyamurthy WOW

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Anthropic's own researchers just proved that using AI to learn new skills makes you 17% worse at them.

and the part nobody's reading is more important than the headline.

the paper is called "How AI Impacts Skill Formation." randomized experiment. 52 professional developers. real coding tasks with a Python library none of them had used before. half got an AI assistant. half didn't.

the AI group scored 17% lower on the skills evaluation.

Cohen's d of 0.738, p=0.010.

that's a real effect.

and here's what makes it sting: the AI group wasn't even faster.

no significant speed improvement. they learned less AND didn't save time.

but the viral framing of "AI bad for learning" misses what actually matters in this paper.

the researchers watched screen recordings of every single participant.

they identified 6 distinct patterns of how people use AI when learning something new.

3 of those patterns preserved learning. 3 destroyed it.

the gap between them is enormous. participants who only asked AI conceptual questions scored 86% on the evaluation.

participants who delegated everything to AI scored 24%.

same tool. same task. same time limit.

the difference was cognitive engagement.

the highest-scoring AI users actually outperformed some of the no-AI group. they asked "why does this work" instead of "write this for me."

they generated code then asked follow-up questions to understand it. they used AI as a thinking partner, not a replacement for thinking.

the lowest-scoring group did what most people do under deadline pressure: pasted the prompt, copied the output, moved on. they finished fastest.

they learned almost nothing.

and here's the finding that should concern every engineering manager alive: the biggest score gap was on debugging questions.

the skill you need most when supervising AI-generated code is the exact skill that atrophies fastest when you let AI do the work.

the control group made more errors during the task. they hit bugs.

they struggled with async concepts. they got frustrated. and that struggle is precisely what built their understanding.

errors aren't obstacles to learning.
they ARE learning.

removing them with AI removes the mechanism that creates competence.

participants in the AI group literally said afterward they wished they'd "paid more attention" and felt "lazy."

one wrote "there are still a lot of gaps in my understanding."

they could feel the hollowness of having completed something without understanding it.

that's not a productivity win. that's debt.

this paper isn't an argument against using AI. it's an argument against using AI unconsciously.

Anthropic publishing research showing their own product can inhibit skill formation is the kind of intellectual honesty the industry needs more of.

the practical takeaway is simple: if you're learning something new, use AI to ask questions, not to skip the work.

the struggle is the product.

[Ashley Serenity Liu @ashleysliu]

@partiful’s latency is so high it’s painful 😭 pls i wanna be on the app tho

[Healthcare AI Guy @HealthcareAIGuy]

NEW: Company Deep Dive — Amigo

We sat down with CEO Ali Khokhar to unpack how Amigo is helping health orgs build safe, patient-facing AI agents.

They’re redefining trust, simulation, and what it means to actually deploy agentic AI in clinical workflows.

Link below! 👇

[Healthcare AI Guy @HealthcareAIGuy]

@youramigoai @khookhar

Here's a blog post to learn more: https://t.co/Dqmq6pyotq

[Ashley Serenity Liu @ashleysliu]

i've been away from twitter bc i've been so busy building !! and with the best team :-) come partner with us and we're also hiring!

[Healthcare AI Guy @HealthcareAIGuy]

NEW: Amigo launches end-to-end platform for AI clinician development with verifiable 99.9% safety and performance metrics.

Healthcare orgs can create and train AI doctors, nurses, and support staff to deliver care at scale: a major milestone for patient-facing AI agents.

[Ashley Serenity Liu @ashleysliu]

we're looking for some incredible full stack engineers here at @youramigoai. if you're looking for the greatest intellectual challenge whilst having the most fun, dm me! love this team and what we're building v much

[Ashley Serenity Liu @ashleysliu]

when i say im left and right brained, i mean i am proficient in both PC and mac shortcuts. don't @ m3

[Ashley Serenity Liu @ashleysliu]

that time of year again where i keep asking myself “are uggs fashion???” still tbd

[Ashley Serenity Liu @ashleysliu]

@khookhar @amigo @generalcatalyst @gsv @comma so excited to build with this incredible team!!!

[Ashley Serenity Liu @ashleysliu]

i feel as technology gets better, the ui gets dumber meaning it assumes people get dumber…

[Ashley Serenity Liu @ashleysliu]

@deepfates Meditate for more than 30 mins daily

[T @tylerthecreator]

https://t.co/pKuQZ3ZeAd

[Ashley Serenity Liu @ashleysliu]

the most rewarding daily practice i do is meditate for 1.5 hrs. its taught me more about myself and this crazy adventure called life than any book, podcast, etc

[Ashley Serenity Liu @ashleysliu]

every dog owner has to sign a legal contract that binds them to indeed pick up after their dog & the world would be a better place

[Ashley Serenity Liu @ashleysliu]

@jewiss health equity and value based care :)

[Ashley Serenity Liu @ashleysliu]

helping a close founder friend hire for head of product! you’d be working with a phenomenal solo founder, growing quickly in the healthcare infra software space. looking for ~7 years of experience, who should i chat w??