Taylor A Murphy

PM AI @astronomerio, Advisor @meltanodata @MatatikaBytes | x: Founder @archdotdev | Data @GitLab @ConcertGenetics | PhD @VanderbiltU | Husband, Dad 👦🏼👦🏼👧🏼

[Taylor A Murphy @Tamurphy]

@thedatadavis @X says the lowercase version is taken...

[Taylor A Murphy @Tamurphy]

I did the @X handle change thing on a lark and now I have a new handle but the "T" is capitalized and it annoys me...

[Taylor A Murphy @Tamurphy]

@AlexNoonan6 humans famously love to be optimally packed into a confined space

[Taylor A Murphy @Tamurphy]

@JamesTimmins can you say more? what are the tasks the AI is doing here? Not every workflow needs to be agentified.

[Taylor A Murphy @Tamurphy]

@aishwarya_08 @XMoney 🤷 tried to send you some but it says you're ineligible

[Taylor A Murphy @Tamurphy]

v nice @XMoney

[Taylor A Murphy @Tamurphy]

@ryxcommar save it for the nerds at the conference. we've got money to make here!

[Taylor A Murphy @Tamurphy]

It's $12 for that meal now btw

[Taylor A Murphy @Tamurphy]

aw man, just imagine if it still cost this little 😭

[Taylor A Murphy @Tamurphy]

@floydophone "bro montana" if you're feeling extra cheeky

[Taylor A Murphy @Tamurphy]

"yeah we have a great remote culture. everyone in our main hub gets daily catered lunch and then we do social zoom calls every other Thursday with our colleagues not at hq"

[Taylor A Murphy @Tamurphy]

@SMB_Attorney Dalworthington Gardens in Arlington is similar... well maybe a little less fancy lol

[Taylor A Murphy @Tamurphy]

@vahlamorgulis unironically yes, just age appropriate.

my hope is that when they actually learn about those things they connect it to their childhood and go "oh Dad made us do this shit" 😂

[Taylor A Murphy @Tamurphy]

having a partner who doesn't manage the money at all, but who is the primary login / phone number for some accounts, means I have to say things like

"hey that text you got that has a code that says you should never share this with anyone, please send it to me"

[Taylor A Murphy @Tamurphy]

what happened to @TheCiridae ? I recall @JackSoslow being active on here. hopefully too busy building!

[vas @vasuman]

There's a difference between AI sidekicks and background agents.

AI sidekicks require you to prompt them to handle tasks on the fly, and don't work without prompting. They help you move faster through your work, but don't fully take work off your plate. AI sidekicks bring between 10-20% efficiency for the average desk worker, and can cost a fortune if mismanaged.

AI background agents run completely autonomously, only surfacing to you for exceptions, judgements, and other human-in-the-loop events. They actually remove work from your plate, and the workflows we take on see between 60-90% efficiency gains.

The enterprise value ratio between the former and the latter is 1:10. Yet there's a ton of sidekicks like Claude Cowork, Codex, and GitHub Copilot, and almost 0 AI background agents.

This is because setting up AI background agents is incredibly involved. You have to:
- Go deep into a company, and understand how processes run today, and how exceptions are handled
- Re-engineer those processes so that they are reimagined for an AI-native future. For example, 15-step workflows can now be condensed into 5-steps, and AI can handle 4 of them.
- Build the agents custom for this process, on top of the systems of record. If your work runs on Dynamics 365 and Salesforce, your agents should do the same.
- Integrate human-in-the-loop feedback and model-optimization so that the agents get smarter, faster, and cheaper over time.

This is nearly impossible to do alone, because access to frontier AI talent is limited to top tech companies. And MBB firms like McKinsey will pitch you on AI transformation just to hand over a 300 page slide deck after 6 months and not ship a single agent.

There's only one company on the planet that will do this work for you, and do it well, and that is linked below.

[Taylor A Murphy @Tamurphy]

this is something I'm tying to teach my kids. but it's not something I'm even very great at. I've built a great life because I knew very clearly what I *didn't* want.

with my kids I'm having them set small, clear goals around things they want (better at soccer, LEGO, piece of art) and then break it down into how they can make progress on it. I'll consider it a win if, when they're older, they're able to articulate a goal, take steps to achieve and then either realize they don't actually want that or they really do want it and can go after it harder.

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

the bottleneck is increasingly knowing what you want

[Taylor A Murphy @Tamurphy]

@mhp_guy what are the actual mechanics of such a large private sale? do you go somewhere to have the title notarized and then wire the money then? I sold my old car for like $6k and even that felt like a risky transaction.

[Flo Crivello @Altimor]

Working at a big company is a PvP game, at a startup a PvE one

[Taylor A Murphy @Tamurphy]

same price too

[Taylor A Murphy @Tamurphy]

this shrinkflation is insane...

[Taylor A Murphy @Tamurphy]

this shrinkflation is insane...