Owen Williams ⚡

Kiwi in Canada • Design manager @stripe on Developer Experience and AI. Prev @shopify.

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Some personal news 🐶

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@andrewculver No kidding our lawyers are good! Cheers!

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a few years ago stripe filed a patent application for work we did on the dev experience team for Workbench…. it was granted yesterday and it feels extremely cool to be able to say i have a patent now 😎

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@imwiss Thanks bud!!

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@imcatnoone Thank you! Never imagined getting one!

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@film_girl Right!!!!

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@four_seven Good idea, maybe that’s my excuse on a MacBook first, bit more cost effective 😅

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trying to decide if it's unhinged to get one of these grunty new mac studios for local AI things—are local models *good* now? i just want to own my stuff

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@elou Thanks!!! Never imagined getting one!!

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@ppkorevaar Thanks bud!!

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@yescynfria Thank u! 🫡 (cool work on the berd stuff btw!)

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@Nilli_Minaj Best co-patent-holders ever

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@RechargeRhythms !!!

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@PascalPixel Hmm not selling it 🥲

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@JaredHenriques I too thought about custom but can’t even deal with figuring out any of this on windows lol

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@richchetwynd i suspect my lil macbook air might feel sad (it is annoying that it is not always in one spot also)

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@dotmariusz just mostly like personal assistant stuff, repetitive workflows etc. i use a p good saas product for this but their pricing is $$$$$

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@cszhu its me, im the yubikey meat

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at this point i think my role is “yubikey presser” for my ai agents at stripe

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@danimalnelson lol but really there’s probably a fun game to be made in here

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@AdamWhitcroft Very cool