Sam Odio

2x founder with 10 years of building user-centered ML/AI products.

[Sam Odio @sodio]

@mojombo and i have a new show ... @aiworthusing. When we started, we set out to bring on top agentic engineers to "teach tom" their setups, live.

Mission accomplished 🚀 (thanks to our amazing guests):

- Jesse Vincent (former lead maintainer of Perl, creator of Superpowers).
- Wes McKinney (@wesmckinn, creator of Pandas)

And coming soon...Peter Steinberger (@steipete, Creator of OpenClaw)

https://t.co/tBIx4S7nj0

[Tom Preston-Werner @mojombo]

I'm doing a podcast!

@aiworthusing is a new show from me and @sodio about AI workflows that actually hold up. Guests help me install their tools on my machine, live, so I can try them for real.

First two episodes out today: @obra on Superpowers, @wesmckinn on Roborev!

⬇Links.

[Sam Odio @sodio]

“She’s out there!” Ha

If you own the bakery in this video, I’d LOVE to chat!!

[AI Worth Using @aiworthusing]

“Sam, find me an AI that actually helps me.” - Sam’s mom

We asked everyone at #AGNTCon. The search continues. 🔍

Know a great AI Agent tool for Sam's Mom? Tag the builder below. The best answer could end up on AI Worth Using, tested and demoed live on thew show.

[PWV @PWVentures]

Our hackathon winners got their Mac Minis signed by the creator of OpenClaw and the cofounder of GitHub and investor at PWV.
This one went to Michael Starkenberg, whose agent Rundown led real usage out of 48 entries.
@sodio @mojombo @steipete @aiworthusing

[Sam Odio @sodio]

@petergyang @petergyang let me know if you give https://t.co/iBXiuGErSA a try. I trust the adversarial reviewer & audit log enough to give it my google login & banking credentials.

[Sam Odio @sodio]

how did they get my pitch

[Emm | scenario.com @emmanuel_2m]

I'm not sending my deck anymore 😂

[Sam Odio @sodio]

Things got a little spicy when we started talking about OpenClaw's security. We'll have to continue that conversation another time @steipete ;)

[AI Worth Using @aiworthusing]

We sit down with @steipete, Creator of @openclaw, on how one WhatsApp bot became one of the most-used open-source AI agent projects.See how people are actually using AI in their work on the "AI Worth Using" podcast. #OpenSource

[Sam Odio @sodio]

@mrgunn @bradgessler are you referring to https://t.co/n6pyqRlCZ7 or https://t.co/iBXiuGErSA

[Sam Odio @sodio]

@judegomila @drusenko yes.

[Sam Odio @sodio]

The AI Worth Using Hackathon kickoff is starting now in the Openclaw discord! https://t.co/RN1w9jPRUF

[OpenClaw🦞 @openclaw]

Build your startup's first hire with OpenClaw 2.0.

The @aiworthusing x OpenClaw hackathon with @sodio starts Sept 22. Build a multiplayer agent that does a real startup job.

Mac Minis + a trip to SF up for grabs. Submit by Sept 28, 11:59 PM PT.

https://t.co/CPwLmiCsgR

[Sam Odio @sodio]

@jasonfesta @aiworthusing @openclaw It’s virtual, though we’re celebrating the end at @mojombo’s house in sf (Dolores park)

[Sam Odio @sodio]

There's a lot of hype around AI agents...I'm constantly wondering, "What's real?"

So we at @aiworthusing have teamed up with the @openclaw foundation to kick off a Hackathon: https://t.co/PBU5niP31z

Theme: Use OpenClaw 2.0 to Build Your Startup's First Hire.

[Sam Odio @sodio]

h/t @DanielKumanaya for creating the windows/linux of Plow Latch

[Sam Odio @sodio]

Our first "Building in public" miniseries:

Trailer: https://t.co/7fl1FVrYSd

Episode 1: https://t.co/xXtsEhFcyE

Episode 2: https://t.co/3kR9VXjGUK

Episode 3: https://t.co/q2FvlqoegA

Episode 4: https://t.co/fm3sSeg2jO

Episode 5: https://t.co/bLrAgaKx1w

[Sam Odio @sodio]

I needed this LinkedIn DM so badly this morning. We are jeopardizing our ability to raise money by being 100% open about our journey. This message was a good reminder of why we're taking that risk.

And it was timely - @rowanbrooks just dropped the entire first miniseries for our startup's journey. Links below ⬇️

[Watch Me Pivot @watchmepivot_]

The season finale of The Wobble miniseries is live on YouTube!

Founder & CEO Samuel Odio gets brutally honest with the Plow team.
The diagnosis: we built the thing before knowing we could sell the thing.

The operating principle remains: ready, fire, aim.
You take the shots, and you take the learnings

Follow us for more.

Episode features:
@sodio
@danedelattre
@rowanbrooks
@_mdyer
@jmfd
Patrick Lucas

[Sam Odio @sodio]

@rajivayyangar ha!

[Rajiv Ayyangar @rajivayyangar]

This is a fun Product Hunt launch: you can comment to control Sam's computer and watch live on Twitch

(order the team something fun for lunch!)

https://t.co/nVCmPyKVar

[Sam Odio @sodio]

Haha @rajivayyangar nice try! I’m loving watching people use my Mac live: https://t.co/zqkdN8dMYw

[Sam Odio @sodio]

we just launched my Mac onto the interwebs: https://t.co/zqkdN8dMYw

fun to see others trying to use my mac to order their lunch...

[Sam Odio @sodio]

we are just beginning to understand what it means to mine our terabytes of personal data for opportunities to help others...

[Ed Leon Klinger @edleonklinger]

I've been tinkering with an AI to increase my “luck surface area” (basically, to find interesting opportunities that exist across my entire network) and the results are ... pretty interesting.

Built on my corpus of personal & professional data - everyone I’ve met with, emailed, talked to, thousands of call notes, LinkedIn connections, emails, Slacks etc. Plus it does its own desk research on my contacts overnight (did that by itself without being asked, weirdly).

Example - it suggested I introduce Marco (an insurtech founder, hiring for multiple roles) to Ben (an insurance headhunter I really rate). It pieced that together through a combo of Granola transcripts, emails, LinkedIn messages, and internal Slack messages.

Powered by a social graph algorithm that scores relationships and potential intros - based on things like relationship strength, recency, communication style, and “likely-mutual-value”, etc.

I left it running overnight, and it:
> found people who have helped me with intros & advice, but where that help hasn't been reciprocated by me - then it suggested actions I could take to repay the favours
> remembered that a colleague described her ideal mentor to me in a meeting *a year ago* - found someone in my network with the exact right experience, and drafted an intro
> surfaced a bunch of insights about my own life - like a drop-off in social & fitness activity since becoming a dad(!) - and set up a local run club on WhatsApp

The suggestions are… surprisingly good! And devoid of the usual AI slop.

I talk a lot about luck surface area - putting yourself in situations where good things tend to magically happen. This is the first time I’ve built something that actually tries to increase that surface area for me and my network.

I’m quite encouraged by the results, and it was surprisingly easy to build (with @claudeai, of course). Happy to share how for anyone who is interested in building their own.

@bcherny