John Kennedy

Founder @actual_ai_ . Previous Head of Product @AWSCloud GameTech. @UnderscoreVC Core Partner.

[John Kennedy @CommerceJohn]

Dynamic Workflows for Claude Code make it immeasurably more important to have ADRs. You might be looking at 20 exploratory runs vs getting it right the first time. 5% the token cost with ADRs. We have already seen this play out with open source software factories.

[dan barker @danbarker]

The sad irony of this is:

- the Leeds data centre is estimated to create 1,000+ jobs across the region
- its water needs are roughly equivalent to 5 moderately busy car washes
- and... it will use rainwater gathering, so a decent chunk of water needs are covered anyway

Objecting to it essentially makes the region poorer, for no real gain.

[John Kennedy @CommerceJohn]

@DanielPriestley Deeds over words. Every single time.

[John Kennedy @CommerceJohn]

@IsForAt @MistralAI 1

[Kenneth Auchenberg 🛠 @auchenberg]

For a long time I’ve talked about Agent Experience. Many think AX is the new DX, but that misses the bigger picture.

We’re moving to an agent-first world, where agents are the primary users of all software.

AX isn’t just the new DX. It’s the new UX.

https://t.co/wVnGOCmkUr

[John Kennedy @CommerceJohn]

@auchenberg Yes, but I'll allow @meetgranola today because it's great, effectively free, and I was able to uninstall @superwhisper, which has been going through a series of very annoying bugs.

[John Kennedy @CommerceJohn]

RIP @superwhisper & @WisprFlow . @meetgranola just added dictation and it is great.

I assume every notetaker will add the same mac app cloud transcription hotkey. Everyone needs a note taker, so the dedicated transcription market will evaporate.

[John Kennedy @CommerceJohn]

Ruh roh

[ben hylak @benhylak]

every product i use should just be a headless mcp, that feeds into an agent, where i never have to think about anything underneath.

except for our product, of course.

in our product, customers love the ui and love us very much.

we're special that way.

[John Kennedy @CommerceJohn]

Now software companies survive at the behest of frontier labs who are just out in front of hackers using obliterated models. Another reason to have a software factory.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

During this red-teaming exercise, we also found a vulnerability that allows for unauthenticated remote code execution in Brotli, a widely-deployed compression library included in many pieces of software such as Node.js, Bun, and Envoy.

The flaw could let an attacker run their own code on affected systems by sending or replying with malicious compressed data, without any need to create a user account. That is, an unpatched server that accepts compressed input could be taken over by a malicious client, and an unpatched client that accepts compressed input (such as “curl --compressed”) could be taken over by a malicious server.

This root cause issue was actually fixed in the Brotli source code in February, but it wasn’t known at the time that it gave rise to a security vulnerability and there was no more recent release of Brotli. Since Brotli is built into other software, any software which includes this library needs to take the update too, followed by the users of that software. We disclosed the vulnerability to Brotli and other downstream projects such as Node.js, which released or are currently releasing security updates, and Brotli cut new release versions and published a CVE.

More details on the patch and mitigations below:
https://t.co/Y1Y72aHxrW

[John Kennedy @CommerceJohn]

@CupOJoseph Always this

[John Kennedy @CommerceJohn]

If you are not building a harness, you are missing out. Not necessarily a coding agent, just something, email, creative, organizer. Combining instant software prototyping with inference is magic.

[John Kennedy @CommerceJohn]

@josephfcox This can not be real. @jredding !?

[John Kennedy @CommerceJohn]

We were running the official @openclaw meetup in Seattle. Now we run 0 OpenClaw. All on @bot. I am absolutely sure that OpenClaw is still awesome and does tons of stuff that GrokBot can not do, but the amount of things we could just shift over seemlessly was astounding.

[John Kennedy @CommerceJohn]

@emmanuel_2m My friend, I need this published to @Spotify ASAP.

[John Kennedy @CommerceJohn]

I'm obsessed.

[Emm | scenario.com @emmanuel_2m]

I'm not sending my deck anymore 😂

[John Kennedy @CommerceJohn]

@nrmehta 😮😂🥹

[John Kennedy @CommerceJohn]

@huashengeth @griffgreen We have to have built in safety standards

[John Kennedy @CommerceJohn]

@rsquare @griffgreen This is what we want to do with security ADRs for every project

[Klaus Brave @klausbrave]

Gave a talk last night at the Claude Community Meetup here in Auckland on what I built for my best friend Bruce who died of cancer seven weeks ago.

I built an AI system to process all of his medical data from three different hospitals,
and created a 3D digital twin that realtime produced audio visual explainers of what was happening in his body, we could then ask questions and receive decision support from a total system of recorded + multiple AI models as we interfaced with doctors and nurses to make critical decisions day by day during his final days and hours.

Video of the talk incoming, I’ll share more soon.

[John Kennedy @CommerceJohn]

Factory dealt with this badly, but a board observer joining a direct competitor with no gap is destructive behavior. Founders will remember.

[John Kennedy @CommerceJohn]

This has become startup vs. VC because anyone would feel betrayed if their board observer joined a direct competitor. Yes, it is probably legal, but if this is how you act or behavior you support, don’t be surprised if your deal flow dries up, your rounds become more expensive, your funds return less, your information channels narrow, your invites become transactional, your alpha is beta.