Sean Knight

AI & Geospatial. Sharing thoughts too unhinged for LinkedIn.

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Anyone else finding that you get slightly annoyed when you have to manually look through a menu to find a setting?

My new instinct is that I should be able to ask an AI copilot to change the setting for me without having to dig through menus to find it myself.

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Entrepreneurs aren’t worried about AI taking our jobs because we never had real jobs in the first place

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So if you’re a human and your name is Claude, do you just give up and get a name change?

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Overheard in a coffee shop today:
“Paying your taxes lowers your T, bro. Why would I lower my T?”

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Random/dumb startup idea: a company that produces convincing-looking cardboard fake tanks that can be easily assembled and used as decoys on battle fields for drone strikes

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Drinking Game:
Read through a tech company’s website: drink every time you see the word “seamless”.
If it’s in a heading, finish your glass.

Reminder: only your customers get to decide if your product is “seamless”, “exciting”, “disruptive”, “a game changer”.

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Tomorrow is tax day. I built an AI agent to do mine. Project is called Taxdown.

AI parses your PDFs into YAML. Deterministic Python handles the math. Every number on Form 1040 traces back to its source doc.

AI as the reasoning layer, not the black box.
https://t.co/wenKbBCbEd

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AI will enable a massive new wave of long-tail podcasts and personalized podcasts

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The more I use Claude Code to do things on my Mac, the more it starts to feel like Claude IS my operating system

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Big important problems are almost never easy to understand, but they are easy to trick yourself into thinking you understand

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@Hesamation As an over-communicator, the transition has been great for me

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@developedbyed Okay, this is pretty cool

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I've started to think of people describing AI products as "like magic" as a bad sign. Magic implies that you don't know how it works and you can't find out. Magic implies it's not auditable or explainable. Production AI won't be magic, it'll be boring.

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It's a weird time to be working on an AI startup. The tech is moving so fast, it is hard to keep a grip on whether your startup still makes sense from one day to the next

#BuildInPublic

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@waynesutton I am. Using it as the full backend for our product at https://t.co/wFz4nRGAKg

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Launching a new thing: https://t.co/wFz4nRGAKg

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Giant robot hand demolishing cars at the @awscloud Re:Invent afterparty

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"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect" - Teller

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Visual AI workflow builders miss the point: AI agent development is about context, not flowcharts