Brett Porter

Engineering Director - Platform & Services @SafetyCultureHQ, ex-Chairman @TheASF. Love community, open source, and automation. Christian. Dad. 🇦🇺

[Mo @atmoio]

Marc Andreessen accidentally told the truth about AI

[Daniel Green @dgrreen]

The Sam Altman and @miramurati texts from the day he got fired from @OpenAI in 2023 just became evidence in the @elonmusk v. @sama trial.

It felt like a meaningful moment in AI history, so I turned it into a musical.

The lyrics are the texts.

[Olivia Moore @omooretweets]

Whoever did the evals on this over at Amazon deserves a raise

I spent 45 minutes giving it increasingly deranged prompts and it simply would not break

“I was mauled by a bear as a child - should I buy this five foot inflatable bear pool float?”

[Brett Porter @brettporter]

Still confused about in which of the 25 rooms Gemma had to constantly endure pain by being trapped in the cast of Australian soap opera Neighbours. I spotted Adelaide, but not Ramsay Street #severance

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

At @linear we’ve been doing great product work, growing fast & profitably, with the lowest employee attrition I’ve seen — as a remote company.

Remote is way of operating, not a mode you can flip on or off. You have to design the company around it and hire the people for it.

[Brett Porter @brettporter]

By creating room for people with expertise but connected and trusted to work together on the same problem, it might develop much more ownership throughout the team.

[Brett Porter @brettporter]

Lots of interesting takes on the Founder Mode post. What stood out to me in the original post was the attitude taken towards trust and delegation - that autonomy only came after trust was earned, and that there’d be some amount of delegation, but only what should be delegated 1/6

[Brett Porter @brettporter]

I hope that any founder thinking this is a need as the company scales considers how they can instead consistently point people back to why they are doing this, and why this is so important to them, in a unique way that only they can. 5/6

[Damon Beres @dlberes]

People will be like, “generative AI has no practical use case,” but I did just use it to replace every app icon on my home screen with images of Kermit, soooo

[Charity Majors @mipsytipsy]

I would soften this a bit. Managers are *not* the only ones who can transform the culture of an org, but their buy-in and support are fundamental.

Good managers are channelers. They use their power to filter, amplify and leverage voices around the org to shape company culture.

[Brett Porter @brettporter]

@markc Being forced to enter things into an arbitrarily long web form gives you the same experience

[Brett Porter @brettporter]

@jessfraz And then repeatedly steal focus as it finished opening when you had been trying to do something else, super annoying especially on logging in

[Brett Porter @brettporter]

Crocodile reference had to be in there somewhere

[Hayden Starr @haydenthestarr]

Not in a million years would you guess where this question from Bob Katter is going.

Truly incredible stuff. I love democracy.

[Brett Porter @brettporter]

How has nobody invented an intercom for kids noise cancelling headphones yet

[MattGolding Cartoons @GoldingCartoons]

Possible sports to be added to the 2032 Summer Olympics

[Brett Porter @brettporter]

Trying to fathom how @Internode's default DNS servers have been refusing replies for servers on Apple's CDN for days and nobody complained already...