Joe McKenney

AI @Airtable, prev CTO at @doptcom, @Patreon, @Trifacta, @Splunk.

[Sholto Douglas @_sholtodouglas]

Heartbreaking, what an articulation @crowprose

https://t.co/Zfx0XB1iM1

[Joe McKenney @crowprose]

@_sholtodouglas Thanks @_sholtodouglas!

[Joe McKenney @crowprose]

@sama How timely! I just wrote an essay related to that feeling.

https://t.co/Gx7KZEMq3b

[Joe McKenney @crowprose]

wake 0.5.0 is out 🌄

Terminal context for Claude Code. Now with LLM-powered summarization and tiered data retrieval—Claude gets the right level of detail without drowning in output.

`wake shell` → work → ask Claude → it already knows

https://t.co/BlRpqL6BOW

[Joe McKenney @crowprose]

PTY capture + shell hooks + SQLite + MCP = Claude Code that can see your terminal history.

Wrote up how wake works:
https://t.co/frRDw1ZZ1o

@AnthropicAI

[Joe McKenney @crowprose]

stop copy-pasting terminal output into Claude Code

https://t.co/OlVb5zlxvy

[Joe McKenney @crowprose]

Annual rewatch of True Detective Season 1, the best show/season ever made. Time is a flat circle but at least Rust Cohle is there to guide me through it.

[Joe McKenney @crowprose]

A recent realization: Meat Loaf appears in most of my favorite films

[Joe McKenney @crowprose]

@karomancer Always. I do this then exhaust the song forever.

[Joe McKenney @crowprose]

@karomancer Cut it all off. I just went from mid-back length to pretty short and it feels great.

[Phil Vander Broek @philvb]

5 months ago I broke down Figma's new AI onboarding. They're back with a new iteration! The most interesting part: 𝗔𝗜 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀. An updated breakdown 👇

In the last iteration, an AI input form was presented side-by-side with pre-built usecase templates.

This makes sense, they both solve the cold start problem of helping users go from from 0 → .5 (they don't get users to 1 yet).

I wondered if, in the future, AI entry points and templates would merge.

With this new iteration, Figma has essentially made templates from pre-written, use case prompts!

Templates are great at presenting use cases (push). Prompting is great at capturing intent (pull).

This experience is starting to have the best of both worlds, where the entry point into prompting is structured and easy to understand, but I can still edit the prompt to fit my intent.

I like this and I think it points to a strong vision for AI-generated getting-started experiences (rather than just throwing me into an input).

Of course, templates still play a big role for Figma and Figma has a huge community with tons of helpful resources.

But now AI has a much larger in-product entry point than templates.

I could imagine other tools taking a similar approach!

[Joe McKenney @crowprose]

@ImLunaHey Tablet

[Joe McKenney @crowprose]

@tannerlinsley @statelyai @ReactRally @tannerlinsley do you have @statelyai deployed in production? If so, what are you using it for?

[Joe McKenney @crowprose]

Yea, code as a source of truth is just wrong in this case.

As a dev, I get it. It's easier to reason about if everything lives in code...but that doesn't satisfy other non-technical players' needs.

Take feature flags and experimentation platforms.

The source of truth is in the platform, not code, so folks can not only observe but can contribute and take action.

Onboarding is the same.

[Joe McKenney @crowprose]

@chronark @DavidKPiano @nolte_adam @statelyai @doptcom Code should access the journey and signal the user is advancing through it.

This is a good separation of concerns IMO.

[Joe McKenney @crowprose]

@gabrielvaldivia Skip SF and head to Oakland. I'll take you out for a great drink and/or dinner.

[Joe McKenney @crowprose]

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[Joe McKenney @crowprose]

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[Joe McKenney @crowprose]

Launch day 🚀

Today we're launching AI Assist, an in-product AI that actually works.

AI Assist automatically crawls your docs and leverages in-product context to deliver personalized and contextual assistance to your users.