Aymeric Zhuo

Co-founder @codewordsai. Turn words into AI agents and automations.

[Aymeric Zhuo @aymericzzz]

Today, @CodeWordsAI is announcing a $9M seed raise led by @VisionariesVC.

When @osmanioramadan and I started @CodeWordsAI, our goal was to empower anyone to create software by chatting. Not demos – production-ready, reliable, and complex automations.

[Aymeric Zhuo @aymericzzz]

@herdingbots @audrlo discord, twitch

[Aymeric Zhuo @aymericzzz]

i feel like ai builders – or technologists in general – romanticize the technical prowess of the technology, especially in a period of rapid innovation.

we end up building tools for other builders whose compass for what good looks like is different from people 1) at the other end of the range of technical knowledge 2) working in a non-tech related field, eg consumers/prosumers/SMBs, often referred to as the 99%.

so the "why" is simply that the 99% we're talking about here don't care about harnesses, llms vs world models, open vs closed source, deepseek vs claude... they just care about what the tool – however it's called – can do for them:

"reply to every single lead on whatsapp" vs "build any messaging agent".

a clear outcome that resonates regardless of the method taken to achieve it. today, most of those repetitive tasks are still done by humans because the 99% don't know it is possible with AI, but there are companies that have already cracked the packaging/marketing to an audience beyond tech, eg @meetgranola @GammaApp @WisprFlow and even @ChatGPT (the mobile app), to an extent.

[Josh Miller @joshm]

Hot take… isn’t it kinda crazy that nobody is really using AI Agents? I don’t mean software engineers or AI early adopters. I mean “college friends talking about it in group chat,” the feeling you got when everyone started using Instagram or TikTok.

These frontier AI models are *insane* (as are the harnesses & tool calls & the like). And every large tech co has an AI agents platform, not to mention all the YC startups doing vertical agents. Yet all of your friends and family outside of tech — who spend all day staring at their iPhones and get paid to work in browser tabs — don’t really care or find themselves using any AI agents yet.

Yes ChatGPT, Claude, etc. are extremely popular… but if you look at the engagement data the vast majority of people are still using these aI chat tools like a glorified Google + Grammarly. That’s why the AGI labs are all pushing desktop apps for Codex, Cowork, etc. so hard to non-technical ppl. And yes exceptions for lawyers and customer service but even those have some asterisks and exceptions to rule.

Look I’m not saying the ChatGPT moment for AI Agents is not coming… it most definitely is! Remember we pivoted from Arc to Dia precisely because we believe computing is going to be radically reimagined around these AI primitives. No doubt. But that’s my point: it’s just so surprising it hasn’t happened yet because all of the tech you’d need is there.

Again if you stop for a second and think about it… for all the press and money and hype and models and crazy ARR numbers… this “AI Agent” moment does not *feel* like the other breakthrough tech moments we’ve lived through (e.g. think the shift to Stories via Snapchat & Instagram, or shift to on-demand via Uber/Airbnb/Doordash).

Which is a long way of saying: if you can figure out the answer to “why” most people don’t care about AI agents yet (and have no enduring interest in using them) — especially since the models and harnesses are here and ready — the answer to that question will allow you to capture a lot of marketshare and make a lot of money in 2027.

Theoretically, the tech is ready for AI Agents to totally transform how we work and live our lives… but alas the general public dgaf… that’s the generational puzzle to solve for the next 12 months for anyone not working on the models themselves.

[Aymeric Zhuo @aymericzzz]

is the open chat box the problem, or the fact we're assuming it's a one-way chat? what if it's a conversation instead where the UI is actually gathering the requirements to build the right tool?

that would be most similar to how humans collaborate with individuals instructing (eg the project manager) and others executing (eg the developers)

[Aymeric Zhuo @aymericzzz]

@JeffDean The real Avengers assembling here. What a team. Excited about the future!

[LVMH_Presse @LVMH_Presse]

Merci : la réaction de Bernard Arnault à « l’enquête » du Monde

[isha @ishamgg]

adding light mode in your product isn't anything new, so try to make the announcement a bit more fun - inspired by @carmenansio 'pull to dark' toggle https://t.co/LlcYrXOyt9 @CodeWordsAI

[Aymeric Zhuo @aymericzzz]

@jasonkneen @CodeWordsAI hey @jasonkneen thanks for the feedback! We're working on adding that

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Starting to REALLY see how reaching potential customers is becoming a massive pain point for software startups - esp w AI!

I get so much more messages about software that founders built rapidly that they think will solve some important problem (usually eg AI+context/trust/security).

But how will anyone know about it?

It was fast to build, but getting the world to know about it / care about it is increasingly hard/expensive/time-consuming.

And the irony is: the "easier" it is to build, the more the only differentiation is marketing/advertising! (Because the easier it is to build, the more teams build something similar in parallel, and racing to win the market becomes key!)

[Aymeric Zhuo @aymericzzz]

We’re just getting started. The next application frontier for AI isn’t tools waiting for prompts, but agents that act before they ask.

This round also saw the participation of @firstminutecap , sequel and Illusian, along with angel investors such as @matiii , @HannoRenner , @mikeknoop , @AlexBerriche @searchbrat @guilleflorvs @roxannevarza and the founders of @supercell @Zalando @woltapp and others.

[Aymeric Zhuo @aymericzzz]

Today, @CodeWordsAI is announcing a $9M seed raise led by @VisionariesVC.

When @osmanioramadan and I started @CodeWordsAI, our goal was to empower anyone to create software by chatting. Not demos – production-ready, reliable, and complex automations.

[Aymeric Zhuo @aymericzzz]

Nobody should be dragging boxes or configuring nodes. Anyone should be able to turn a repetitive workflow into an automation by chatting.

It took reimagining from the ground-up what a product experience with AI at the core would look like: today, @CodeWordsAI runs 500,000+ workflows per month in real business context. None of it built by users writing code.

[Aymeric Zhuo @aymericzzz]

the new n8n workflow flex is posting your claude bill $$$

2023: "here's my 47-node automation that took 3 months to build and breaks every tuesday"

2026: "I've spent $6.8k on Claude tokens. trying to understand how unusual that is."

different era. same energy.

[Aymeric Zhuo @aymericzzz]

Someone used CodeWords to build a tool that's posting 20 Trial Reels a day without touching Instagram once.

Upload one clip → CodeWords generates 9 variations (different hooks, text overlays, captions) → posts them all as Trial Reels automatically.

Run it daily and you're testing 9 hooks, 9 captions, 9 formats — every day — on a completely fresh audience.

The ones that pop, you publish. The ones that don't, nobody ever saw.

Millions of views are sitting there. This is how you reach them.

[isha @ishamgg]

spring is here 🪻 🔊

made with @variantui and @CodeWordsAI

https://t.co/eGiJGw7Ee0

[CodeWords @CodeWordsAI]

Introducing CodeWords UI.

Thousands of automations run on CodeWords — quietly, in the background, but they were hard to show, share, or sell.

Now you can generate a frontend for any workflow.
• Add a custom domain
• Layer on logins, portals, and subscriptions
• Do this all from the same chat you already use

If you've ever thought "I could sell this,” now you can!

Try it → https://t.co/P0hqTxcHlC

[Aymeric Zhuo @aymericzzz]

Henry, 74 years old, changed our product roadmap for one simple reason:

He wanted to visualize the automation he had built.

Not the underlying logic or the workflow diagram, but the actual outcome.

His automation worked exactly as intended, but that wasn’t enough for him. If you can’t see and interact with what you’ve created, it doesn’t feel complete.

That distinction changed our perspective: interfaces bring automations to life.

Starting today, you can generate interfaces with @CodeWordsAI UI to complement your automations.

[Rebecca @rebecca_hp_]

The first thing I've built end-to-end — a mini Valentine's Day card generator of course!

Create your own lovely card: https://t.co/5uIk6IpXn8

Made entirely with @CodeWordsAI (and a little bit of @figma) 💕

[CodeWords @CodeWordsAI]

We're joining forces with @techeurope_ and @GoogleDeepMind for a day of AI building!

📍London | 21.02.26

Apply to join → https://t.co/h5krSdflrr

[isha @ishamgg]

silly things you can make for valentines #1 https://t.co/HoAwvOSWZv

saw this cute valentines post go viral https://t.co/M9r15jJcCO and wanted to try making something similar for my partner in under 5 mins + using chat only, no github, v easy to share

@CodeWordsAI 🫰

[CodeWords @CodeWordsAI]

Make waves. Use your voice.