maple ong

documenting my journey in tech - AI Agent Engineering @GustoHQ, prev Ruby & Rails Infrastructure @ShopifyEng

[maple ong @OngMaple]

Super excited for people to use Cofounder. Imagine texting an AI cofounder that anticipates your business’s needs and then automates it for you👇

[Matan @mzruya]

Gusto just announced Gusto Cofounder, and this is something I'm really excited about. Not just because it's all I've been doing for the last two months, but because I think it's an example of what I've always thought to be the ideal user experience for our customers – almost no user interface, we just do it for you – run payroll via SMS, get weekly reports, set up automatic expense approvals, or anything else on your mind. It's an AI assistant for 500k small businesses, available in their preferred messaging app. Here are a few real conversations I've had with it 👇

[maple ong @OngMaple]

We reduced test suite runtime of the monolith by >23% (and counting) with FixtureKit! 🫨 Check it out

[Ngan @nganpham]

If you use factory_bot with Rails and have always been jealous of those fixture guys, check out FixtureKit! https://t.co/0FRCbMilcN

[maple ong @OngMaple]

someone please rebuild github

[maple ong @OngMaple]

til googles motto used to be “don’t be evil” lol

[maple ong @OngMaple]

Smol but exciting update: I’ve been working on the AI Platform team at Gusto to build the next gen Gus agent 🤭

It’s been such a refreshing and energizing career shift to work in AI.

[Gusto @GustoHQ]

AI can’t run your business for you, but it *can* make it easier.

Meet Gus AI, your AI-powered assistant built for small businesses. Need quick answers on compliance? Just ask. ⬇️

[maple ong @OngMaple]

I just submitted my first application to @ycombinator 👀

[maple ong @OngMaple]

@excid3 @rails @AmandaBPerino Congrats Chris! Wow, everyone is glowing 😍

[maple ong @OngMaple]

@peterzhu2118 let's go $FIG 💰

[maple ong @OngMaple]

in a ci builds meeting: what if we just don't run any tests

[maple ong @OngMaple]

I'm surprised at how similar (yet different) CPython is implemented compared to CRuby

[maple ong @OngMaple]

@_byroot Happy retirement 😉

[Irina Nazarova @inazarova]

You can join these speakers at the SF Ruby conference! Submit the talk proposal before the end of Sunday, July 13, for review of our program committee @OngMaple @noelrap @palkan_tula and @paolino at https://t.co/qhsKpToJ88
If you have questions, reach out!

[maple ong @OngMaple]

Anyone else feel a little embarrassed to said you use AI day to day or is it just me

[maple ong @OngMaple]

An underrated thing my mentor did with me is sit down and talk about org changes and announcements (e.g. company financials, compensation, leadership, etc). It taught me how to think more critically about these changes and form better opinions.

[maple ong @OngMaple]

I’m not an engineering manager but learning about how other companies scale their org is quite interesting. I’ve only worked at larger companies so there are just some practices that make me go “hmm idk if that would work at our scale”

anyway the @duolingo office is nice

[maple ong @OngMaple]

@nyxsun lmaoooo

[maple ong @OngMaple]

@peterzhu2118 tower is aesthetic ✨

[maple ong @OngMaple]

buying an apple product using a family and friends discount feels like modern day nepotism

[sublayer @sublayerapp]

🐝 🐝 🐝 Still buzzing from last night's Artificial Ruby event! 120+ Rubyists gathered at @GustoHQ NYC office, with folks traveling from as far as Wisconsin, Washington & Massachusetts! 🎉 #RubyAI

[maple ong @OngMaple]

ok NYC Ruby x AI friends, @GustoHQ is hosting a meetup! Come through: https://t.co/OFoJcsbF3t