Derrek

Ex-dev who got replaced by the thing he ignored.

Learning AI the hard way so it never happends again

[Derrek @derrekai]

me at my first dev job

massive laptop, coffee within reach, absolutely convinced i knew where my career was going.

went from a small web agency to bank software to a senior backend role.

got comfortable.

then got laid off in february when the company restructured around ai.

i dismissed this stuff for years. figured it would never be good enough to do real engineering work.
mostly found reasons not to try it.

turns out i was a fool about that.

now i'm learning the thing i spent all that time arguing against. still know coding.

considerably less sure i know everything else.

if you know someone worth learning ai from, tag them.

would like to connect with people actually using AI 🤝

[Knowix @knowixbuilds]

I let my Grok Bot spy on my competitors' ads.

It found the one thing none of them are doing.

So I hired 4 more:
→ Head of SEO
→ Head of Research
→ Head of Competitive Intelligence
→ Director of AI Visibility
→ Chief of Staff, Memory

5 heads of department. 0 salaries. 0 send buttons.

One of them caught ChatGPT quietly using my content without recommending me.

How I hire them (prompt included)👇

[Derrek @derrekai]

asked claude Opus 5.5 for a regression test for an empty order list.

it passed with the bug still there. annoyed with myself for nearly accepting it

just because the test name sounded right.

[Derrek @derrekai]

the annoying part of learning agents is following a tutorial, getting it working, then realising i couldn't build it again without the tutorial open.

not quite the progress i had in mind.

[Derrek @derrekai]

@MiaAI_lab @bot best decision they could have made

[Derrek @derrekai]

@knowixbuilds this sytle brings back memories

[Derrek @derrekai]

@bot for free?

[Derrek @derrekai]

@AlexFinn Grok Bot and Haiku 5.5 seems like a great fit

[Derrek @derrekai]

@sama but can it beat Haiku 5.5?

[Derrek @derrekai]

@MiaAI_lab they're cooking

[Derrek @derrekai]

@AnthropicAI latest and greatest

[Derrek @derrekai]

@claudeai best cost / quaility model

[Derrek @derrekai]

i used to think ai wouldn't get good enough to threaten my job.

now i'm wondering how much of the work i want to get hired for can be done by the cheap model.

still going to learn it.
just not pretending that's a comfortable thought.

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5: the cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model we’ve ever released.

On average, it costs around 75% less to run than Claude Haiku 4.5.

[Derrek @derrekai]

@AlexFinn where to get the idea from?

[Derrek @derrekai]

@NousResearch This is what people needs who is starting out. I don't know models but this helps a lot to decide what to use

[Derrek @derrekai]

hard to get excited about building an ai app when you keep wondering if openai will add the whole thing as a feature.

you spend months building it.
they put it next to the attach button.

i'm trying to learn this stuff and ship something useful. just struggling to tell what's a business and what's a missing menu item.

[ChatGPT @ChatGPT]

Your next meeting comes with a note-taker who can help with the follow-up.

The Meetings plugin takes notes for you and saves a personalized summary and next steps in ChatGPT Space, based on what ChatGPT knows about you and the work you’ve done together.

Keep notes private or share them with your team, then ask ChatGPT to update a project plan or draft a follow-up.

Available in beta for Pro and Business users in the ChatGPT desktop app on macOS. Enterprise is coming soon.

Download the desktop app, then search for “Meetings” in the plugin directory.
https://t.co/XeDvr50UjJ

[ChatGPT @ChatGPT]

Your next meeting comes with a note-taker who can help with the follow-up.

The Meetings plugin takes notes for you and saves a personalized summary and next steps in ChatGPT Space, based on what ChatGPT knows about you and the work you’ve done together.

Keep notes private or share them with your team, then ask ChatGPT to update a project plan or draft a follow-up.

Available in beta for Pro and Business users in the ChatGPT desktop app on macOS. Enterprise is coming soon.

Download the desktop app, then search for “Meetings” in the plugin directory.
https://t.co/XeDvr50UjJ

[Derrek @derrekai]

@Windows @surface @NVIDIARTXSpark heard spark is good for devs, is it legit?

[Derrek @derrekai]

me at my first dev job

massive laptop, coffee within reach, absolutely convinced i knew where my career was going.

went from a small web agency to bank software to a senior backend role.

got comfortable.

then got laid off in february when the company restructured around ai.

i dismissed this stuff for years. figured it would never be good enough to do real engineering work.
mostly found reasons not to try it.

turns out i was a fool about that.

now i'm learning the thing i spent all that time arguing against. still know coding.

considerably less sure i know everything else.

if you know someone worth learning ai from, tag them.

would like to connect with people actually using AI 🤝

[Derrek @derrekai]

@GoogleDeepMind so many opportunities with this

[Derrek @derrekai]

@github nailed it this is what I need