Paul Jones

[Obvious @obvious]

🗣️ Incoming - our next dispatch from the field is here

Do you have the same bottleneck as Lilly? 🤌

[Paul Jones @Pauljones454]

@borvibe This is awesome! So great to meet and hang with you!

[David Boskovic @dboskovic]

the Austin Frontier hackathon was an absolute banger

1 day hackathon with unlimited tokens coming up in NYC and SF in the next two weeks - reply or dm if you want an invite

thanks to @CircleCI @replayio and @aitxcommunity for co-hosting and the amazing insights

[David Boskovic @dboskovic]

if you're trying to build an autonomous engineering team come and learn how at any of our upcoming 1 day hackathons in Austin, Atlanta, San Francisco, New York, etc.

https://t.co/2pVYkaSNWc

[David Boskovic @dboskovic]

specs are half "intent engineering" (thanks @jonbell) and half archeology

specs should never state an archeological fact without you being able to instantly reference the source

working with the incredible @AdamMocarski on making this idea beautiful and useful today

[Paul Jones @Pauljones454]

@alexprokhorov @claudeai Looks cool! "wrong" is a little subjective though.

[Paul Jones @Pauljones454]

Excited to be part of the team that is shaping the future!

[David Boskovic @dboskovic]

we were spending too much time "carrying water" between agents

- here's a spec build it
- address the pr comments
- fix the failing CI

so we made an agent for overseeing the SDLC e2e (Autobuild)

we invited 10 startups to use it last week in SF (NYC next week!)

what it does:
- plans out entire feature builds across dozens of PRs
- oversees the coding agents as they work
- babysits PRs and addresses human and agentic review
- conducts security, performance, and architectural reviews
- QAs the work and records videos of the outcomes
- monitors logs for issues after staging release
- collects ux feedback from humans and address them
- indexes all the concepts in your codebase
- automatically writes updates to your team about what shipped
- knows the current rollout state of features
- maintains running sandboxes with a full dev env
- dogfoods features before reporting success
- engages with you in slack as it builds
- automatically fixes reported issues
- nags you for PR reviews when needed
- optimizes your CI so it's not shit (big bottleneck for velocity)

we're planning on making this the most insane building experience for established companies with a focus on quality/safety and human collaboration while accelerating velocity by 1-2 orders of magnitude

if you want to join us in NYC next week (Thur/Fri - May 7/8) or future workshops lmk - we're onboarding up to 50 companies at a time by helping you ship 12 weeks of roadmap in 2 days - a sort of reset on baseline velocity

no cost to attend beyond the inference you burn (you'll build a lot so not for the faint of heart)

[David Boskovic @dboskovic]

we were spending too much time "carrying water" between agents

- here's a spec build it
- address the pr comments
- fix the failing CI

so we made an agent for overseeing the SDLC e2e (Autobuild)

we invited 10 startups to use it last week in SF (NYC next week!)

what it does:
- plans out entire feature builds across dozens of PRs
- oversees the coding agents as they work
- babysits PRs and addresses human and agentic review
- conducts security, performance, and architectural reviews
- QAs the work and records videos of the outcomes
- monitors logs for issues after staging release
- collects ux feedback from humans and address them
- indexes all the concepts in your codebase
- automatically writes updates to your team about what shipped
- knows the current rollout state of features
- maintains running sandboxes with a full dev env
- dogfoods features before reporting success
- engages with you in slack as it builds
- automatically fixes reported issues
- nags you for PR reviews when needed
- optimizes your CI so it's not shit (big bottleneck for velocity)

we're planning on making this the most insane building experience for established companies with a focus on quality/safety and human collaboration while accelerating velocity by 1-2 orders of magnitude

if you want to join us in NYC next week (Thur/Fri - May 7/8) or future workshops lmk - we're onboarding up to 50 companies at a time by helping you ship 12 weeks of roadmap in 2 days - a sort of reset on baseline velocity

no cost to attend beyond the inference you burn (you'll build a lot so not for the faint of heart)

[David Boskovic @dboskovic]

tomorrow we kick off the 3rd cohort of startups we've invited to use Autobuild, the internal tool driving the insane autonomous build velocity at @obvious (nearing 1000 PRs a day from 10 engineers)

each co is shipping 12 weeks of roadmap

this is the frontier, build accordingly

[Craig Wattrus @cwattrus]

If you've noticed @obvious crushing it recently it might have something to do with this!

Working with @AnthropicAI to battle test 1M token window has reduced our compaction events by 15% so far and lets our agents run longer with full context on the hard stuff.

[David Boskovic @dboskovic]

https://t.co/aIAyDiMkeD

[Craig Wattrus @cwattrus]

WE ARE LIVE!! This isn't another vibe coded weekend project this is the most fulfilling work I've done in my life so far. Many many long days, nights, weekends poured into @obvious by everybody on the team.

If you're waiting for Sonnet 5 👀, get into Obvious in the meanwhile and get ready to try it in the best work AI form factor on the internet.

Our many private beta users have spent many hours a day in Obvious and have shaped what it is today. Thank you if you're one of the real ones 🙏. Keep the feedback coming!

[David Boskovic @dboskovic]

I spent $100M building a SaaS product. An agent we built in 6 months just outperformed it.

Those 6 months have changed almost everything I thought I knew about building.

Thread on what I learned 👇

[Paul Jones @Pauljones454]

@PastorMark Wow. Were you drunk when you wrote this?

[David Boskovic @dboskovic]

we've been cooking so hard @flatfile - this video is a good 2.5m catchup

[Paul Jones @Pauljones454]

Thank you Jarrod Gipson for spending 10 hours with me this year on @Spotify. You are my #1. #spotifywrapped https://t.co/VswraUCPdd

[Paul Jones @Pauljones454]

@dustinkensrue Yep.

[Paul Jones @Pauljones454]

@RareLtd Just lost 30+ items while turning in loot on SoT due to a server crash!!!!

[Paul Jones @Pauljones454]

@ryan_holloway @MattEddyBA @BaseballAmerica @astros Bastards still won’t put them on any lists.