Dirk Stoop

I make things that make things make things. Product/Tech at Flux

[Dirk Stoop @dirkstoop]

@tuparev It’s possible for multiple enemies to exist..

[Dirk Stoop @dirkstoop]

Major product drop today for Flux: you can design complete hardware products now. The future is interdisciplinary!

[Matthias @MatthiasWagner]

The walls between engineering disciplines are coming down. And when they do, millions more people will be able to turn ideas into physical products. We took a big step toward that future today 🚀 https://t.co/xsuYRI9rpF

[Dirk Stoop @dirkstoop]

@SlackHQ can you pretty please support markdown tables already? – your platform sucks pretty hard for an AI-first company that deals a lot with markdown content…

[Dirk Stoop @dirkstoop]

@tetrisgm Hilarious! Don't mistake motion for progress. Don't mistake output for productivity.

[Dirk Stoop @dirkstoop]

@WallStBitcoiner @SamuelBeek They’re brute-forcing the hardware design process by throwing a large team of very experienced smart people at it. That’s how everyone does it.

[Dirk Stoop @dirkstoop]

@rustsoldev Sorry, I don't understand. Can you elaborate?

[Dirk Stoop @dirkstoop]

We're hiring, come build the future of hardware design at Flux!

[Matthias @MatthiasWagner]

Today we’re sharing that Flux has raised $37M in additional funding to keep pushing on our mission: to take the hard out of hardware!

I’m proud of this team and grateful to the builders who’ve stuck with us, sent feedback, and challenged us to make Flux better

If you’ve ever shared a design, reported an issue, or told us what we could do better: thank you 🙏

Let’s build!

[Dirk Stoop @dirkstoop]

@appsynic Thanks for your reply! We're only looking for full-time people to join our team right now.

[Dirk Stoop @dirkstoop]

@tetrisgm @moxon @MatthiasWagner Totes. The best PMs I know are all allergic to “scrum”, “agile”, and PRDs.

I’ve used written docs plenty. Eg. you need one to sell a +25 headcount ask at Google. Also, a spec is useful for some work.

But if you’re optimizing how fast you produce artifacts, you’re doing it wrong

[Dirk Stoop @dirkstoop]

@tetrisgm @moxon @MatthiasWagner And the way you use that vision + priorities is not in authoring docs. It’s in actively ensuring the team is going the right work.

[Dirk Stoop @dirkstoop]

@tetrisgm @moxon @MatthiasWagner I’ve always thought of the PM’s role as scaling the founders as a company grows.

Keep an eye on the big picture: biz goals, strategic alignment, option value.

Master an area of the product (or the whole product), process raw input, and use that to define vision + priorities.

[Dirk Stoop @dirkstoop]

Many more roles on https://t.co/YwxG4ZwOrX

[Dirk Stoop @dirkstoop]

@benhylak Very cool! We’ve been using our own self-reporting flow at @BuildWithFlux for a while and it’s been a game changer. Filtering and aggregating has been key for us.

[Dirk Stoop @dirkstoop]

There’s never been a better time to get into hardware development.

You don’t need to know everything anymore to build hardware, you just need to be smart, curious, and have a clear idea.

[Flux | Design PCBs with AI @BuildWithFlux]

The first AI hardware engineering intern is here. ⚡️

Until now, Flux could handle one-off tasks; add a part here, wire a trace there.

Now, it can plan, decide, and execute full design cycles. Researching parts, wiring schematics, placing, routing, and checking as it goes.

Think of Flux as a capable intern: fast, explainable, and eager to learn, but still needs your guidance and review.

Welcome to the new era of hardware design.

[Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale]

This is cool. I wish I was a teenager again to go back to old projects and build, but with AI like this and inexpensive hardware delivered in days to iterate on design.

My @8VC colleagues and I are building a secret hardware project using Flux for the electronics. Coming soon.

[Dirk Stoop @dirkstoop]

@theskindoctor13 Yup, just another regressive tax.

[Dirk Stoop @dirkstoop]

Peer reviewing every PR is obsolete. If you use AI to code (and do it well), you’re now drowning in code reviews.

At Flux, we flipped the script. Pre-merge peer review is the exception now. Every merged PR gets ranked and the riskiest ones go in a ranked post-merge review queue.

[Dirk Stoop @dirkstoop]

@davidasinclair Or they may ask what a rainforest was

[Dirk Stoop @dirkstoop]

@BuildWithFlux Heads up: as Google Cloud Services are still recovering, some parts of Flux – e.g. logging into Flux with your Google account – may be flaky for a while longer.