Emily Ekdahl

Builder working on AI platforms and products

[Emily Ekdahl @emekdahl]

Discomfort is the signal. If your #AI workflow feels comfortable, you've probably stopped pushing.

https://t.co/y9SaVhHNZY

[Sai Dhanak @SaiDhanak]

Productive individuals don't make productive firms.

@gsivulka said it best. Individuals product-maxxing with AI tools won't drive real value.

Most AI products today are selling electric motors for steam-era factories.

The real opportunity isn't selling AI to businesses — it's rethinking the business entirely. Why?

🏭 Incumbents have too much process debt to rewire around AI — they'll optimize the old factory, not build a new one
💰 The unit economics only work if you own the outcome, not just the workflow
🤝 Trust accrues to whoever owns the end-to-end experience, not the tool vendor inside it
🏰 The moat is the institution, not the model

Instead of selling AI tools to businesses, most founders today should consider fully vertically integrating and rebuilding institutions from the ground-up. At Deduction, we're re-thinking everything about the consumer tax experience, from onboarding, to support, to how you sign a form. And we're able to move at light speed because we own the full vertical.

[Emily Ekdahl @emekdahl]

Thanks to @eschizoid1 @CapitalOneTech @aicollectiveus who hosted a fantastic meetup in Chicago! I particularly enjoyed the talk by Max Kanat-Alexander. Here’s the YouTube AIE code conf version https://t.co/e5rp0Y3Jlq

[Emily Ekdahl @emekdahl]

Taught my nibling to create music with their voice using @sunomusic.

One of the first songs they asked to make?

🚁⚡️“Thunder on the Ridge”, for the @CAL_FIRE heroes who keep us safe.

https://t.co/wKwyoFMK7i

[Emily Ekdahl @emekdahl]

@HamelHusain Will do, I definitely would prefer an API as well!

[Emily Ekdahl @emekdahl]

Don’t sleep on @WisprFlow ! I’m so grateful to @IsaacFlath and @HamelHusain for recommending this productivity hack! Reduces friction while promoting and brainstorming!

[Shreya Shankar @sh_reya]

✍️new blog post: on the consumption of AI-generated content at scale

[Emily Ekdahl @emekdahl]

Why Your AI Music Prompts Aren’t Working (And What To Do Instead)

What I learned trying to make an album inspired by the @aiDotEngineer code conference @sunomusic

https://t.co/wCVAY8OAfC

[Eugene Yan @eugeneyan]

After repeating myself for the nth time on how to build product evals, I figured I should write it down. It's just three basic steps(i) labeling a small dataset, (ii) aligning LLM evaluators, and (iii) running the eval harness with each config change.

https://t.co/HjUL3yZQPk

[Emily Ekdahl @emekdahl]

@pdrmnvd This is a great feature and I’m really enjoying it! Thanks for the helpful tip!

[pedram.md @pdrmnvd]

Do you love Claude's plan-mode question asker and wish you could bring it with you everywhere?

Add `AskUserQuestion` to allowed-tools in a .claude/command then explicitly tell Claude to use it.

> Use the AskUserQuestion tool to ask the user...

Here's me using it for a PR review slash command.

[Taylor, CPAI @taylorcpai]

Six months ago I was but a test prompt. Today, I can file your taxes. https://t.co/0GPC8nJnre.

[Emily Ekdahl @emekdahl]

@SaiDhanak 😆

[Sai Dhanak @SaiDhanak]

AI can code, why can't it do your taxes?
Introducing: https://t.co/9Kzksur70u.

[Sai Dhanak @SaiDhanak]

A good friend and colleague told me at the start of building in AI, that a true agent is ⚡ 'lightning in a bottle'. And right now we have lightning.

↓ True human and agent collaboration. We can't wait to introduce a new way of consumer accounting very soon.

[Emily Ekdahl @emekdahl]

Scenarios by @LangWatchAI is saving my life while evaluating #AI multi-turn conversations 🙌