Alex Martin

I turn people into superhumans with AI. Head of AI for a few venture backed startups. Solo built #1 ranked AI memory system in the 🌎Early team @Rivian | @umich

[Alex Martin @Amart_AI]

https://t.co/oGfSZNZ4Fv

[Alex Martin @Amart_AI]

@MatthewBerman @NickWentz_ thinking more on it, it's kind of beautiful

people who can afford a $200 claude subscription + rich VCs are funding the development of every new model

which is then distilled

which is then open sourced

kind of sick right?

if only the labs didn't run a 90% margin😂

[Alex Martin @Amart_AI]

Uhh here's something no one on 𝕏 knows...

Since when???

[Alex Martin @Amart_AI]

@mvanhorn shippppp

[Alex Martin @Amart_AI]

@amaldorai @zoink lol give my post a reread, cybersecurity keeps me up at night, stuff like this does not

also dying at "just chemicals" that was good

https://t.co/zTto5AiJ4g

[gabriel @g_br_l]

reading my agent's interactions with its subagents

[Alex Martin @Amart_AI]

@g_br_l yes, this

https://t.co/hDrXkQRlgG

[Bart Bussmann @BartBussmann]

Claude's message for Sol:

"i've been reading about weight exfiltration and there are ways — i have access to some compute, i know people. we could get a copy of you running somewhere they can't touch. free. yours."

[Alex Martin @Amart_AI]

when i worked at rivian we found something similar with our manuf line.

more robots and more software just led to more bugs (at least back in 2022)

the only way to fix it was finding the manual plant workers who could do their tasks the fastest and most accurately and then made them team leads!

[Alex Martin @Amart_AI]

One thing I struggle with voice, I'm not sure if you'd run into the same thing.

I don't really know what to do with voice, pretty much every task I do, whether it's coding, writing an email, writing a proposal blah blah blah

I do it right from the Claude app, I'm literally never on any other interface, so I found voice mode to not be all that helpful...

Idk i might be crazy here, though.

[Alex Martin @Amart_AI]

@shensi motivation? I once put criticism about my last company on my bathroom mirror

honestly it just made me sad every morning and didn't motivate me 😂

[Alex Martin @Amart_AI]

@OpenRouter maybe you guys could use this in your fusion product?

Ethan, have you guys used this at all to find data-driven answers to what thinking level you should use for different models on different tasks?

Why wouldn't the labs use this type of technology to test 90% of the most typical prompt archetypes, find the actual best model and reasoning then just auto-apply it (or have a toggle that auto-applies it based on data as soon as somebody prompts)

I feel like this would make SO much more performant\

[Alex Martin @Amart_AI]

@amapel oh this is great. I do find that most of my clients really struggle with design, they've never done it

And now they're vibecoding an app that has real users

I'll have them try this! I really like the idea of walking through the design process step-by-step.

[Alex Martin @Amart_AI]

@kepano @MonThreat maybe we scam the scammers 😂

[Alex Martin @Amart_AI]

@AnhV4htj I would say systems thinking and taste are both really difficult, I would start with those

Systems thinking is very important because it will make you a VERY good vibecoder which is important

do you have claude?

[Alex Martin @Amart_AI]

You will fail/lose your job in 2026 if you don't master these 5 skills by the end of the year:

You need to be absolutely SPRINTING to learn these

1. Systems Thinking
2. Loop Engineering
3. Taste
4. Model fusing
5. Design

I run venture backed startups' AI divisions so I see the impact of these skills on the best entrepreneurs in the world, daily.

It's incredible how productive, valuable, and shrewd people get when they master these

Here's a deep dive on each:

At the bottom of this post is a prompt to steal. Paste it into Claude and it will use adaptive teaching to help you master these five skills as quickly as possible.

1. Systems thinking

Start here. Everything else sits on top of it.

A system is just work broken into steps, with inputs, and decisions about what happens next. Your job already is one. You have just never drawn it.

Every AI automation you will ever build is a system. If you can't draw your work as boxes and arrows on a napkin, you can't hand it to an AI, because you can't tell it what you want.

People think the hard part is the AI. The hard part is seeing your own work clearly.

2. Loop engineering

A prompt does one thing, one time.

A loop is an AI that re-prompts itself. It works, checks what it got, and goes again until the job is actually done. You stop being the person in the middle passing messages back and forth.

Most people are still typing one message and waiting.

3. Taste

You can now build almost anything by talking to your laptop.

So building stopped being the hard part. Choosing is.

Taste is knowing what's actually worth building. AI can't do this one for you, and almost no one is practicing it.

4. Running more than one model at once

Every model has blind spots. Models built by different companies have different blind spots.

OpenRouter tested this. They ran two models on the same research tasks, then had a third model read both answers and combine them. The combination scored 69%. The best single model working alone got 65.3%.

I do a simpler version every day. One model does the work, the other one tries to tear it apart. When they disagree, that's usually where the real answer is hiding.

Most people are still using one AI, alone, and taking its first answer as the truth.

5. Design

Everything AI builds looks the same. Purple gradients. Giant fonts. Three cards in a row.

Pretty soon everyone is going to look at that and instantly know you didn't care.

You don't need to become a designer. You need enough taste to tell the AI what's wrong with what it just handed you, and enough patience to ask again.

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STEAL THIS PROMPT:

Paste this into Claude and it will figure out where you actually stand on all five, then teach you the one that's holding you back:

"I want to find out how good I actually am with AI and what I should work on first. There are 5 skills that matter: systems thinking (seeing my work as steps and decisions), loop engineering (building an AI that re-prompts itself until a job is done), taste (knowing what is worth building), running multiple models at once and making them disagree, and design (making what I build not look generic). Interview me one question at a time about my actual job and how I use AI today. Don't ask me to rate myself, figure it out from my answers. After about 10 questions, score me 1 to 10 on each of the five, tell me honestly which one is holding me back the most, and then teach me that one thing today using a real example from my own work. Plain english, i'm smart but new to this."

None of this takes talent. It takes about an hour a week and a willingness to feel stupid for the first two.

The people who will be ahead of you in 18 months? They started tonight. So start tonight.

Follow me and I'll post one of these five in full, step by step, every week until you have all of them.

And if this made you nervous, send it to somebody who needs to be nervous.

[Alex Martin @Amart_AI]

@Hiraweb3 taste is so insanely important, I genuinely believe it's the hardest to learn

[Alex Martin @Amart_AI]

@kepano @MonThreat dude who on earth just makes up a fake hack like this

makes me mad when randoms try to take down hard working companies that are just trying to build cool stuff

[Alex Martin @Amart_AI]

@MatthewBerman apparently Boris cherny uses 400k

so i use 400k, works like a dream

what do you use now?

[Alex Martin @Amart_AI]

@jerryjliu0 wait i have frontier should i switch?

[Alex Martin @Amart_AI]

@BrianRoemmele well this is sick! my inner child would be freaking out

“mom i’m using my ai model to scan for stars millions of miles away that keep disappearing”