Sam Walker

creative technologist. currently in @gauntletai and loving it. opinions are my own.

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Engineers! We want to:

Fly you to Austin

Give you an apartment

Clean your room

Do your laundry

Feed you 3x/day

Help you master building with AI

And give you a $200k to $1m job.

You pay nothing, ever, no matter what. Even if you don’t take the job.

[Sam Walker @bluesam]

I did this. It is real. Don’t sleep on it.

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Engineers! We want to:

Fly you to Austin

Give you an apartment

Clean your room

Do your laundry

Feed you 3x/day

Help you master building with AI

And give you a $200k to $1m job.

You pay nothing, ever, no matter what. Even if you don’t take the job.

[@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com on Bluesky @norootcause]

Coding was the bottleneck, then code reviews were the bottleneck. At some point, incidents are going to be the bottleneck.

[Sam Walker @bluesam]

Demo day is finally here. Listen in and see what Gauntlet is all about!

[Gauntlet AI @gauntletai]

Today, starting at 12 PM CT, we will be live streaming Cohort 3's Demo Day! See what they built in 1 week after ~1,000 hours learning AI.

Tune in here on X or YouTube.

Here's the link to watch: https://t.co/KCZQXPV3UF

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Shipped yesterday in MoPac:

* Meta is live! Including display ad generation.

We have built out the Display Ads -> Meta pipeline. We’re waiting on Meta to grant us advanced access so we can publish ads for you, but can whitelist accounts one-off to start.

* Account Change Tracker and Summarizer:

Every marketer has to update everyone else on what is happening. Change tracker keeps all changes as a summary to make it easy to report up or out.

* Automated Brand DNA*

Now in addition to providing your style guide or explaining things the AI agent and generation tools should keep in mind, simply provide the URL for your website, and Mopac will fill in details of your brand settings for you.

*Display Ads v2*

Generated ads are now context and state aware, so now you can refine specific aspects of your ads instead of starting over each time.

*Google Ads Copy Refresh* - can handle MUCH larger datasets now.

Account Linking: added the ability to delink a Google Ads account in case you want to change which account is linked.

*MCC Issues* - some basic fixes for linking MCC accounts.

Thank you again for your support. We are excited to keep this momentum moving onward and upward. 🙏

[Andrew Heim @andrewheim]

10/10 would recommend. Everything is actually free

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Applications are open for Gauntlet AI’s next cohort

If you’re a software engineer we want to:

* Fly you to Austin
* Pay for your housing
* Pay for your food
* Even do your laundry

While we

* Train you to build with AI
* Match you with $200k+ jobs

100% free no matter what

[Sam Walker @bluesam]

Check out the amazing stuff that has come out of @gauntletai’s Mopac project. A new copilot for marketers

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Engineers have Cursor.

Writers have ChatGPT.

FINALLY there’s an AI platform for marketers.

Introducing Mopac Software.

[Gauntlet AI @gauntletai]

Cohort 3 / Week 4

The challenge: build multiple hiring partner projects at the same time.

“This week has been a long month”

“I'm stuck with these nerds for 100 hours a week”

Watch the first onsite recap below👇

[Sam Walker @bluesam]

@gauntletai https://t.co/s4R2Idl5x3

[Sam Walker @bluesam]

Despite all my reservations about bitcoin alternatives, I decided create a cap table management app on Ethereum as one of the project for week 4 at
@gauntletai. It was a fun project, and I was impressed at the progress I made in just 2 days of work.
Link to video in the comments

[Sam Walker @bluesam]

4th week at @gauntletai. Working on an education app trying to help kids solve math problems without giving them the answers. Learning a lot about Cursor 2 and trying out the BMAD method this week.

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Here. We. Go.

This crazy handful of AI engineers have 6 weeks to turn around Marin Software.

A ton of tech debt, product in need of differentiation, in a brutally competitive market.

We’ll either succeed or fail extremely publicly.

[Sam Walker @bluesam]

This is almost my exact sleep schedule the last week because of @gauntletai. Name the movie.

[Sam Walker @bluesam]

@gauntletai To my fellow P90x-ers

[manuela @yorios9312]

bbl drizzy

[Sam Walker @bluesam]

Week 2, Day 5 at @gauntletai. Update on my Message AI app. A handful of AI features got added. It's been fun, but a lot of grinding gears as I troubleshoot various mobile issues.

[Gauntlet AI @gauntletai]

Cohort 3 / Week 1.
The challenge: build a collaborative UI workspace.
MVP in 24 hours. Ship in a week.

“Brutal.” “Stressful.” “Worth it.”

Challengers are learning to harness AI under real pressure.

Watch the recap below👇

[Sam Walker @bluesam]

Week 2, Day 2 @gauntletai - learned more about mobile development, Swift, and Android in the last 30 hours than almost my whole career as a dev. I've dabbled in mobile before, but not anything that substantial. Here's my WhatsApp clone (so far). Excited to see where it ends up!

[Sam Walker @bluesam]

@andrewheim @gauntletai You killed it, Andrew! Love the polish and hustle!