Aidan Stein

Founder & CEO @Stewardflows

[Aidan Stein @coolmonkeyguy]

As the famous proverb goes, "He who pays for all is repaid twice: once by friends, once by dining points."

[Aidan Stein @coolmonkeyguy]

Gas station food is only sometimes food and oftentimes gas (for the sake of credit card points)

[Steward @stewardflows]

"Steward Rewards" in the app store

[Aidan Stein @coolmonkeyguy]

Personal finance content is either "cancel your subscriptions" or a points transfer to fly business class to Tokyo. Nothing for someone with 3 cards and a job

[Aidan Stein @coolmonkeyguy]

Hotel points have an inflation rate set by the hotel

[Aidan Stein @coolmonkeyguy]

@garyleff ~2% back paid a quarter later in limited coupons. Lyft looks attractive right now.

[Aidan Stein @coolmonkeyguy]

@Noahpinion Surely paired with coverage of AI used to prevent these attacks!

[Aidan Stein @coolmonkeyguy]

Lean tissue includes water btw

[Michael Morelli @morellifit]

This new creatine study is insane.

People who never trained took 10g of creatine a day and gained more lean tissue (2.43 lbs) than people who were lifting 3x a week with no creatine (0.31 lbs).

Here's the breakdown: (1/18)

[Aidan Stein @coolmonkeyguy]

@digijordan Breaking: model stops working outside its assumptions

[Aidan Stein @coolmonkeyguy]

On a $/point (and common sense) basis you should only be using your Chipotle points on steak & barbacoa

[Aidan Stein @coolmonkeyguy]

The thousands of short form vids someone's watched on flock are telling their brain they don't like this post ....but they can't articulate why

[Rahul Sidhu @rahul]

Yesterday. This guy is now free to kidnap another kid instead because the Flock cameras in the area were cut down.

When someone cuts down a camera, the city pays Flock to install a new one. In the meantime, more criminals and child kidnappers go free.

https://t.co/xoup9K1Hxz

[Aidan Stein @coolmonkeyguy]

$20/mo Claude seems very excessive! You can copy/paste code from your free GPT account

[Hareesh Vemasani @HVemasani]

If you want to start a startup:

Claude = coding. ($20/mo)
Supabase = backend. (Free)
Vercel = deploying. (Free)
Namecheap = domain. ($12/yr)
Stripe = payments. (2.9%/transaction)
GitHub = version control. (Free)
Resend = emails. (Free)
ProductBridge = feedback (Free)
Clerk = auth. (Free)
Cloudflare = DNS. (Free)
PostHog = analytics. (Free)
Sentry = error tracking. (Free)
Upstash = Redis. (Free)
Pinecone = vector DB. (Free)

Total monthly cost to run a startup: ~$20

[Aidan Stein @coolmonkeyguy]

@tautologer Whisper open sourced in '22, free, runs local. Speaks to tech success being all branding/execution

[Aidan Stein @coolmonkeyguy]

@conorsen Mid 2010s tracks for payments. One tap pay (beyond Amazon), Apple Pay, Uber killing the checkout screen. All reducing frictions around spending

[Aidan Stein @coolmonkeyguy]

Adjacent to the idea that AI will replace lawyers...Even once it does things well somebody needs to take the fall

[avrl ☘ @avrldotdev]

Realised there's been no aggressive AI push or the doomer narrative of "AI will replace all software engineers" by the orgs recently.

Well, a few things have caused this, imo.
- insane AI bills
- limitations of LLMs in complex systems
- sloppy code pushed to prod
- lower employee morale

Most of the devs are there to do the work & leave; also, the layoffs & tough market aren't delightful for anyone.

It was all a facade & an oversell.

AI can't replace devs outright coz there will be no one to take responsibility for slop.

[Aidan Stein @coolmonkeyguy]

Pre-seed founders posting their agentic workflows (me included) is spiritually soundcloud rappers posting "we gon make it!" in an oura ring

[Aidan Stein @coolmonkeyguy]

@John_Attridge I had bypass permissions on. No clue why my Claude canceled your birthday gift (and erased the history of it ever being ordered) after it had shipped!

[Aidan Stein @coolmonkeyguy]

@Discoplomacy "I need to be direct with you here..."(*Claude moralizing about the wrongs of military conflict*)

[Aidan Stein @coolmonkeyguy]

@SherryYanJiang @WisprFlow Openwhispr (turbo)

[Aidan Stein @coolmonkeyguy]

Every niche has arbiters of truth with a conflict of interest

Fitness: affiliate supplement links

Travel/rewards influencers: promoting mediocre cards that pay the highest commissions

Biohacking/ENT circles: Modafinil worshipers with a discount code