Brian Conn

Building software and teams with agents and humans. Founder of Connsulting, co-host of @managerxbuilder

[Brian Conn @TheConnMan]

Rebooting my X. Expect a lot of AI talk. Planning to discuss how and what I'm building these days.

[Brian Conn @TheConnMan]

@michaelnovati Build unicorn -> invest profits into more subscriptions -> build more unicorns

RSI (recursive self investment)

[Brian Conn @TheConnMan]

@GergelyOrosz Here's hoping. One of my clients is a _heavy_ user of Airtable. I'm already preparing alternatives because I'm a user of Harvest and got destroyed on renewal cost (>25x increase).

I can't get burned like that again.

Thanks for your reporting on Bending Spoons, read it all.

[Brian Conn @TheConnMan]

Killed my personalized Agent Viewer project thanks to T3 Code. Thanks, @theo.

[Brian Conn @TheConnMan]

I'm big into #grokbot right now, but my golden rule of AI is to never get locked in.

All projects are backed by Notion so agents from any platform can use the same brain.

[Brian Conn @TheConnMan]

@CurieTechAI building Curie! The platform can now build itself using our new Dark Factory agent (for ticket execution, not development).

With a nice pizza tracker GitHub Comment, too.

https://t.co/OHJZcl4yrD

@ashishthusoo

[Brian Conn @TheConnMan]

Holy cow these new Claude limits are nice. Barely burning anything.

I'll enjoy it while it lasts.

[Brian Conn @TheConnMan]

@digitalbase Nice, can others on your team use it (if you have a team) or just for your own operations?

[Brian Conn @TheConnMan]

Sometimes I typo just so the reader knows I'm human.

[Manager x Builder @managerxbuilder]

Functional constraints vs architectural ones — which actually breaks your agent workflow?

[Manager x Builder @managerxbuilder]

What does software development look like when agents write code all day—and much of it gets merged overnight? Developers become team leads: define intent, then hand work to a “night shift.”

https://t.co/xew3K56pA8

[Brian Conn @TheConnMan]

Code is a lossy compression of intent from tickets and everyone working on it.

Very hard to back out what should be from what is in code.

[Brian Conn @TheConnMan]

@mattpocockuk Will you cover how to back out intent from the codebase? Code is just a lossy compaction of all the intent in tickets. Is it worth it/possible?

[Brian Conn @TheConnMan]

@yrashk Custom software is cheaper, but still not free. Just changes the equation.

[Brian Conn @TheConnMan]

@pwendell @ankit_math We're building https://t.co/mYAPsrJDZT to be the platform for this.

[Brian Conn @TheConnMan]

@pwendell @ankit_math I'm very interested in this both from a routing and dark factory angle. We're building both.

I think dev is changing to devs planning tasks, then work is thrown into an execution dark factory on lower-cost models backed by a router, like you're describing.

[Matija Sosic @MatijaSosic]

Here's a 45-second TL;DR on Jev.

I find the core idea beautifully simple, but the video made it really hard to understand.

Hope you find it helpful.

[Brian Conn @TheConnMan]

@ankit_math @pwendell Saved to read later, thanks!

Are you able to replay what _would_ have happened if routed to a separate model? And to A/B test new routing rules to see if cost/performance changes before rolling the change out for good?

[Brian Conn @TheConnMan]

@adjohu I don't understand this.

Your own product has helpful features for focusing human review to key parts of PRs. I love the Guide feature.

That's reviewing less of each PR.