Alex Shen

Founding Engineer @ Scam AI
Building tools to detect AI-powered fraud.
MEng ECE @ Duke · B.S. Data Science @ Duke Kunshan

[Scam AI @ScamAI_Official]

Agents that act on files customers send in should check them first.

With @Aident_AI: Loadout opens the case under the team's policies, our MCP server checks each file for AI generation, a person reviews anything flagged.

Verify before you act: https://t.co/BRwniMAcxb

[Kimi Lu @ljhskyso]

You cannot fool my agents with fake images or manipulated files! 🙅‍♀️🙅‍🙅‍♂️

Introducing scam detection for Codex, powered by @ScamAI_Official x @Aident_AI . Turns result into a review-ready brief with flagged files. Learn more @ https://t.co/Yf3FCBm8RV

[Cheryl Yang @cherylxuaner]

The real magic of SF is getting to talk about the future of AI over dinner with the people building it.

Last week, I hosted @HireyAI’s first Founders’ Dinner.

Joining us were founders from @Offloop , @VoiceCursor , @ScamAI_Official , Stampede Robotics, and SL Innovation Corporation, alongside an investor in AgiBot and KUKA Robotics.

We talked about where AI agents are heading, the future of robotics, and what still needs to be built.

My favorite part was hearing how founders and investors approached the same questions from different perspectives.

That’s what we want to keep building with HiRey: relationships that start with a real conversation.

Who should we invite to our next dinner? ❤️‍🔥
Tag someone and tell us what they’re working on.

Self-nominations welcome :)

[Alex Shen @alexshen_dev]

"Life is a single-player game." — Naval

And a startup is one of the most fun ways to play it:
tycoon sim + automation + roguelike + infinite sandbox, all in one.

No saves. No main quest. No leaderboard. You write the win condition yourself.

[Alex Shen @alexshen_dev]

Well, I guess it's time to take some rest~

[Alex Shen @alexshen_dev]

One year, to the day.
Same wall at Berkeley SkyDeck.
Still pushing!

[Alex Shen @alexshen_dev]

Weekly usage running out on Codex / Claude Code — what's the emotion?
🟢 Relief (touch grass time)
🔴 Anxiety (but I'm mid-refactor)
🟡 Denial (I'll just... buy more)

[Alex Shen @alexshen_dev]

This is so cool! 🕷️
The Spider-Man tracker is real!

https://t.co/FfL532sLPQ

[Alex Shen @alexshen_dev]

@thsottiaux Been tracking your resets so closely I built a site with email notification for it 😅

Called this one — reset landing right on schedule as the weekend kicks off. 100k Luna threads, here we go.

https://t.co/NfdUXlaw1e — Codex / Claude Code / Gemini reset tracker 👀

[Alex Shen @alexshen_dev]

@thsottiaux Been tracking your resets so closely I built a site with email notification for it 😅

Called this one — reset landing right on schedule as the weekend kicks off. 100k Luna threads, here we go.

https://t.co/NfdUXlaw1e — Codex / Claude Code / Gemini reset tracker 👀

[Alex Shen @alexshen_dev]

AI Reset Watch — independent quota intelligence for Claude Code, Codex & Gemini CLI. Reset + policy-change history, a pace calculator, and email alerts when the limits move. No account required.

https://t.co/6wsMxUOYSF

[Alex Shen @alexshen_dev]

Speed ≠ cutting corners on quality or thought
Efficiency = a superpower

[Alex Shen @alexshen_dev]

🚀⚡ = 🦸‍♂️ 💪
Speed is the superpower.
Let's keep shipping!

What are you all building?
#buildinpublic

[Alex Shen @alexshen_dev]

Omg! I wanna have them as well

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

Spotted Codex making friends at the OpenAI office

[Alex Shen @alexshen_dev]

Every tech wave starts as chaos and turns into an offense/defense fight.

Passwords, encryption, secure transport — defense caught up every time.

I think AI vs authenticity plays out the same way. Honestly the messy part is the fun part, that's also where the opportunity is.

[Alex Shen @alexshen_dev]

@JensenHuang @nvidia Same story here, I think. It just requires people to show up and do the work for a long time. What an era to be alive in! Building every single day🚀

[Alex Shen @alexshen_dev]

@JensenHuang @nvidia The worry was never AI art or AI products. We love those and use them daily.

It's that the same tools make fraud cheap — faceswap is now a browser tab away.

[Alex Shen @alexshen_dev]

@JensenHuang @nvidia The worry was never AI art or AI products. We love those and use them daily.

It's that the same tools make fraud cheap — faceswap is now a browser tab away.

[Alex Shen @alexshen_dev]

@JensenHuang @nvidia The early internet was wild. Spam was going to kill email, fraud was going to kill e-commerce, and none of it did. Defense caught up every time. Not instantly, and the gap always cost somebody something, but it caught up.

[Alex Shen @alexshen_dev]

Passed the CA DMV test in English. Failed the exact same question in Chinese.
Turns out parallel parking is a matter of interpretation.

[Alex Shen @alexshen_dev]

Kimi K3 is closing the gap fast: 4th on Agent, statistically tied with Opus 4.8
And already ahead on WebDev at 1678, a 44-point lead over Claude Fable 5!