Reed Harmeyer

Former CTO around with harnesses

[Reed Harmeyer @ReedHarmeyer]

@samjulien @clairevo Discernment may matter more but once you’re past like 5 people you need to move in order to discern things!

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@metapreston iPod needed iTunes to get to PMF right? It was a bit before my time but I thought the iPod launched with most music purchase-able.

Like wasn’t the brilliance of Jobs that every aspect is the product and you could make the deals for the music, build the hardware, etc.

[Reed Harmeyer @ReedHarmeyer]

@sam_hatoum So I looked at what you’re building and I can see that you’re building a whole self-optimizing app system.

It’s interesting you went that direction, my version was much more of a Feature Management System much more modular.

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@sam_hatoum 1000% yes thank you for articulating this for me.

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@GantLaborde I think this might have been meant for? https://t.co/wxlvAMb4rd

[Alexander Benz @abenz_mato]

@GantLaborde The survival system has to assign ownership, not just add review. If nobody owns the risk and rollback path, AI only moves the failure downstream faster.

[Reed Harmeyer @ReedHarmeyer]

@_lopopolo This assumes companies know who their systems thinkers are

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Yeah there is a whole new category of person interested in apps.

I’ve been doing some freelancing and there are a lot of non-technical people at non-technical companies who vibe-code a prototype to solve a work problem and now want a real version.

There is some unique sales motion that could create ‘prototyper to champion’ that we could tap in to.

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@GantLaborde The friction was the system. What’s the system now?

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I think companies will end up wanting expert-level consultants more but it would look different.

Buyers will be in one of two camps:
1. Has a mobile app that needs rescuing
2. Wants a mobile app done right

Less staff aug, more full-service. That means:
1. they’re looking for “mobile app help” not necessarily “React Native help”
2. the area of work is less isolated, you may need to do backend and web as well to service that client
3. They may also want design work

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@ScriptedAlchemy Interesting, I’ll have to check it out!

So far I’ve been disappointed by memories, I feel like they’re often distorted versions of what happened but I’m guessing you feel like this captures your intent well?

[Reed Harmeyer @ReedHarmeyer]

When a good session is getting close to compaction I feel something

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@zeeg I feel like peak was Opus 4.5 but it’s so hard to tell at this point.

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@tekbog Idk even when it can it doesn’t necessarily see the screen how a person sees a screen. It will also always prefer to use some other piece of information.

It’s not a bad starting point.

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@Vtrivedy10 Hahaha this is so true, I wonder if it has something to do with training too much around benchmark-style trick questions

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@adamdangelo I agree with the principle but vibe coding is the easy part so you’re still just getting a proxy instead of seeing the real thing

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Me from 9 years ago is so pumped right now! I actually have a few projects I can try this out on

[NativeScript @NativeScript]

Use NativeScript in React Native right now
📲 @nativescript/react-native

🤙 @appjsconf

[Reed Harmeyer @ReedHarmeyer]

Models be pissing me off when they make some shit up and then treat it like it’s the 11th commandment.

No Claude you didn’t need to setup a new DB for this, that was just an idea that YOU threw out earlier

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@metapreston @BrendanFoody For real, this is just Goodhart’s Law

There are two good reasons to be working the 7th day: you genuinely want to do work or theres so much growth you need to be working.

Day 7 adrenaline better be coursing through your veins and your time better be making a difference.