Brian de la Motte

Founding Staff Engineer @Contio | Building the AI MeetingOS to end broken meetings | All opinions my own

[Aaron Klein 🇺🇸 @AaronKlein]

Well...I think we just decided which podcast episode will kick off Season 2 of "Beyond the Meeting."

Congrats again to @jasonwenk and the entire @altruist team!

Drops tomorrow... 👀👀👀

[Brian de la Motte @BigDataBrian]

It's time for standup. I forgot what I did yesterday. It's been less than 24 hours.

I go to GitHub to see what I merged. I fail to figure out how I'm going to condense 5 PRs into a 1 minute update.

So I generalize.

[Brian de la Motte @BigDataBrian]

@KristanHawkins @Campaign4AFC Matthew 5:44

[Brian de la Motte @BigDataBrian]

Who else wakes up excited knowing their Fable usage is resetting for the week?

[Brian de la Motte @BigDataBrian]

@SEATO_rvlt @beautyskillz man, I miss that game. mp_crash was my favorite map.

[Brian de la Motte @BigDataBrian]

@danielkleach Wedding coordinator

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@JoshuaBarzon Couldn’t never do it. Must have some kind of mountains and some lakes too.

[Brian de la Motte @BigDataBrian]

And still no hoverboards like in Back to the Future

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

We were promised flying cars and all we got is infinite superintelligence for everyone

[Brian de la Motte @BigDataBrian]

@lightsilver323 Are they paying customers?

[Brian de la Motte @BigDataBrian]

Dude, what are you even talking about?

Obviously it’s Agentic AI DevOps Cloud Backend Frontend Engineer / Architect.

Although for some reason https://t.co/Q4fPGtatRt can’t find my comp band.

[Wyatt Cupp @wyattcupp]

I genuinely don’t know what to call my job anymore.

“Software engineer” doesn’t resonate. “AI engineer” somehow feels like underselling it.

Weird mix of architect/artist/taste lord/manager or something. Way too many vibes associated with what I do now that you can’t teach in school.

[Brian de la Motte @BigDataBrian]

@shazcodes Tell him there's this fancy 1-liner: git rm -r . && git commit -m "Added code" && git push --force origin main.

[Brian de la Motte @BigDataBrian]

@BookSpotlight measure twice, cut once

[Brian de la Motte @BigDataBrian]

My prompts on a Friday when I'm on a roll.

[Brian de la Motte @BigDataBrian]

@wyattcupp Markdown viewer for me

[Aaron Klein 🇺🇸 @AaronKlein]

@RobertFreundLaw There is a secure alternative: @ContioAI

❌ Model training
❌ Recording, secret or otherwise
❌ Data leaking to OpenAI/Anthropic
✅ 100% of AI in secure private cloud
✅ Simple calendar event disclosure
✅ Unfettered data access via API/MCP

[Brian de la Motte @BigDataBrian]

granola has hardly any protein, fireflies don't fill you up, and otters are mostly gristle - no marbling whatsoever. That's why today we're introducing https://t.co/GRBw7Dczgl - a new way to turn what gets grilled into what gets fulfilled.

[Brian de la Motte @BigDataBrian]

@claudeai casually dropping engineering-dad wisdom.

[Brian de la Motte @BigDataBrian]

Cleaned my glasses.
Productivity up 3%.
Adjusted chair height.
Another 2%.

Closed 47 Chrome tabs.
+5% (temporarily)
Switched to dark mode.
+7% (feels faster)

Stood up and stretched.
+1% but felt like 20%
At this rate I'll be a 100x engineer by lunch.

It's the small optimizations that matter. 🚀

[Brian de la Motte @BigDataBrian]

@AaronKlein Zyns are what happens when cigarettes pivot to UX.

[Brian de la Motte @BigDataBrian]

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

Anthropic expanding rapidly.

First AI models.
Now retail locations in Idaho.

OpenAI reportedly “monitoring the situation.”