Andreas Asprou

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[Andreas Asprou @andyasprou]

@shadcn how do horizontal tabs make it easier for you to keep track of active chats?

[Andreas Asprou @andyasprou]

@mattepstein impressive post. do you do B2B?

[Andreas Asprou @andyasprou]

@benhylak yea, similar spirit as good sales calls

p.s. I like how you’ve distilled role description to a small number of bullets on your careers page. neat

[Andreas Asprou @andyasprou]

@badlogicgames yes it hastily responds and I have to keep reminding it just 2 messages down pre-compaction. noticeable regressions in last two days

[Andreas Asprou @andyasprou]

@birdabo @grok did it work? We need updates.

[Andreas Asprou @andyasprou]

join the happy customers. even as someone who's got a lot of technical experience with building agents, infra, software engineering etc openclaw was a mess to work with

been on hermes for 3 weeks now after migrating and am kicking back and watching my team benefit from it.

lots of neat little features too like:
- better UX/visibility on slack
- auto creates skills by itself

[Andreas Asprou @andyasprou]

5 years ago i was sitting on the coast of a small fishing town in south africa, reading your 35 principles, taking notes, thinking of my own, and feeling grateful for people like you. those thoughtful enough and brave enough to share their stream of thought for the rest of us to be inspired by.

today i’m in a very different place, with very similar thoughts. the influence you’ve had on the ai community is hard to overstate. we’re all indebted.

happy birthday man. hope we finally meet IRL at an AIE conf. gutted i missed London, but i’ll catch one of the next ones :-)

[Andreas Asprou @andyasprou]

@zirkelc_ how does this impact prompt caching?

[Andreas Asprou @andyasprou]

@sysiphos7 @itsolelehmann why would they ban you from using a VPN? i'm on a vpn all day across all products. and so are OpenAI employees (since it's required to work from outside of the office)

[Andreas Asprou @andyasprou]

yea i'm building this

and currently in the progress of migrating to native harness adapter (codex, claude code etc) so you can BOS (bring your own subs)

prev i was using PI as the harness, but stripped that out since Anthropic locked down

- my aspiration is open source fully-featured devin (inc code review autofix via pr babysitter)

web browser, terminals, dev server, (vscode) code editor, native code review via GPT-5.4-xhigh etc. all running in your self hosted cloud

add all your 3 claude code + 4 codex subscriptions and rotate between them

no monetisation aspiration at the present moment

GA rollout early May. ping me if you're interested and will let u know when it's ready to test

https://t.co/BmfBCnkNvx

[Andreas Asprou @andyasprou]

@itsolelehmann why would you want to run local models? you can run them via ZDR providers

[Andreas Asprou @andyasprou]

the fact this keeps coming up is a signal that people have internalized open source as something you can’t easily extend without pushing prs upstream

i’ve been really inspired by the philosophy you’re spreading.

also p.s. i rebuilt my agent harnesses on top of pi instead of the AI SDK, and it turned a pile of hacks + patches into natural extensions. thank you!

[Andreas Asprou @andyasprou]

@vincent_koc @OpenAI @openclaw I’m only kidding, patiently here trying out ow strategies

[Andreas Asprou @andyasprou]

@skylar_b_payne @jxnlco @openclaw “Right prompting”?

[Andreas Asprou @andyasprou]

@Gera1313 yes coming soon

[Andreas Asprou @andyasprou]

OpenClaw X Linear

on someone on slack can say "create a daily ticket to audit my LinkedIn DMs, draft response tickets I can review, and let Alfred send the approved ones"

you get a paperclip style orchestration but execution, delegation and status tracking stays within Linear

[Andreas Asprou @andyasprou]

yes, Openclaw (as branded) it's not team ready out of the box. but the primitives are all there to build upon

i've built a setup where Linear tickets get assigned to different agent personas who pick them up autonomously via Linear's native agent API. LinkedIn research, copywriting, CRM ops, each with their own prompting and tools. a paperclip style experience with openclaw.

someone on slack can say "create a daily ticket to audit my LinkedIn DMs, draft response tickets I can review, and let Alfred send the approved ones:

identity is isolated per employee: Slack ID routes to your own Google OAuth tokens and LinkedIn account through external brokers, so raw personal data never touches the shared agent runtime. sandboxed code execution on top

it's basically single gateway OpenClaw deployed as an employee per trust boundary. one shared brain/memory/knowledge, scoped personal identity, Linear as the task backbone

[Andreas Asprou @andyasprou]

along with taste, this is a top tier skill when working with ai: you need to context switch faster, hold more in your head at the same time, and constantly decide what matters and what doesn't.

you need to pick the right level of abstraction for each piece of work. the model is making assumptions constantly. some of them don't matter. the work is reversible, the bar is lower, ship it. some of them matter a lot.

most people have not had to develop these skills before.

we were trained to do work sequentially, one thing at a time, with full focus. now the job asks you to supervise several things in parallel and make good judgment calls about where your attention goes and when.

the meta skill that all entrepreneurs were forced to develop, now everyone needs to.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer, and it is mentally exhausting.

I can fire up four agents in parallel and have them work on four different problems, and by 11am I am wiped out for the day.

There is a limit on human cognition. Even if you're not reviewing everything they're doing, how much you can hold in your head at one time. There's a sort of personal skill that we have to learn, which is finding our new limits. What is a responsible way for us to not burn out, and for us to use the time that we have?" @simonw