Daniel Sisson - heading up Eng at Phll.ai

Co-founder & CTO @ Phyll | Product & Eng | Multiple Founder | XR, AI, and Computer Vision

[DHH @dhh]

For anyone with endless ideas, this agent age is nirvana as those ideas are met with endless execution, endless exploration. I've never had has much fun working with computers as I do right now. What a time to be alive.

[Daniel Sisson - heading up Eng at Phll.ai @danielsisson]

@upgradeoptimism @AmanitaFugax Trains are one of the most efficient ways humans move shit around. We should have 100X more trains AND still have flying and self driving cars, etc.

[Daniel Sisson - heading up Eng at Phll.ai @danielsisson]

@AmanitaFugax It's certainly the most logical, but we live in a weird ideological, tribal driven timeline where politics is dominated by progressives that want to destroy western civ on one side and conspiracy theorist MAGA on the right.

[Daniel Sisson - heading up Eng at Phll.ai @danielsisson]

I think the worst part about ChatGPT is the search....

it's way too hard to find the right, old thread

@OpenAI please improve search

[Daniel Sisson - heading up Eng at Phll.ai @danielsisson]

Remote controlling Claude Code at the gym feels like a busy dad cheat code.

[Daniel Sisson - heading up Eng at Phll.ai @danielsisson]

@whimdotrun We made some internal tooling and skills to try and solve for this. But would love to check it out

[Daniel Sisson - heading up Eng at Phll.ai @danielsisson]

the craziest thing about using AIs is that the job didn't get easier, just one part of it. Now it's more time on thinking and less on coding, but the job isn't easier. The thinking: problem solving, designing, prioritizing, managing... that's the whole job now.

[Daniel Sisson - heading up Eng at Phll.ai @danielsisson]

@peer_rich this basically just what color do you want to die in?

[Daniel Sisson - heading up Eng at Phll.ai @danielsisson]

@JustinPBarnett I keep one foot in XR because I like XR, and because I hope one day it does take off

[Daniel Sisson - heading up Eng at Phll.ai @danielsisson]

Some people are naturally drawn to making computers do stuff, they're already coding. AI is leverage

There's a small group of dabblers or dev adjacent folks that will join in too

AI grows the dev pool, but only a bit
You still need that core itch to build

// great convo thread

[Ryan Engle | GOLF+ @Rengle820]

@jmdagdelen I think they had dabbled very lightly, like maybe built a blender script by copy and pasting, but never really programmed.

Programming requires a ton of effort to do ANYTHING. It's a very steep learning curve IMO. Just not worth it for most people.

[Daniel Sisson - heading up Eng at Phll.ai @danielsisson]

I might be the best use case for AI.
I have a reasonable amount of dev experience, am reasonably intelligent, curious and into active learning.

I've never learned more and accomplished more technically than I have in the last 12 months.

[Daniel Sisson - heading up Eng at Phll.ai @danielsisson]

For me, it's more like, "VR is very cool, but needs to be one of many cool things I'm working on, not the only one"

[Justin Barnett @JustinPBarnett]

I'm done with VR. The novelty wore off.

[Daniel Sisson - heading up Eng at Phll.ai @danielsisson]

@jmdagdelen Brooooooo, I cannot wait, the book was epic.

[Daniel Sisson - heading up Eng at Phll.ai @danielsisson]

@JustinPBarnett @anduriltech There some interesting corollaries, shouldn't be too hard. Let's chat

[Daniel Sisson - heading up Eng at Phll.ai @danielsisson]

@p_millerd High salary people in tech, finance, exec enterprise roles often live pretty disconnected from real life.
I have a friend making 400k+ a year, wants to start a startup but needs millions in day one funding because he can't imagine paying himself something like 100k a year.

[Ben Lang @benz145]

Most of you will say "who the hell needs this?" But like 5% of you will say "where has this been my whole life?"

The Reverse Scheduler app I've been building is about to kick off alpha testing 🚀. This tool for Google Calendar helps you plan *backwards* from big events (flights, parties, etc). Make a simple itinerary with what needs to be done, and how long it will take, no last-minute chaos.

Sign-up for the alpha here: https://t.co/IougSfDkRl

Reposts appreciated!

[Daniel Sisson - heading up Eng at Phll.ai @danielsisson]

The Meta Rayban with display is going to be dope, can't wait to try

[Daniel Sisson - heading up Eng at Phll.ai @danielsisson]

@_juliettech Zuck is pushing the boundaries forward despite constant criticism. Super admirable.

[Daniel Sisson - heading up Eng at Phll.ai @danielsisson]

@hthieblot Just always eat dinner with the kids. You can work more after dinner, but sit down and eat with your kids.

[Daniel Sisson - heading up Eng at Phll.ai @danielsisson]

live demo failure aside, I like where Meta's going with the AR glasses. These things are going to be huge over the next 5-10 years.