Emmanuel Acquah

Building Kova AI. AI systems, startups, and notes from building in Ghana for the world

[Emmanuel Acquah @eyacquah]

@thsottiaux I like it this way, no need to think of 5 hour limits

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@treejordan @ycombinator Hey, I’d love to send a DM
kindly follow back

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@realAkashAnand Sorry, done!

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My sunshine 🌞

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[Emmanuel Acquah @eyacquah]

how Jordan played 70+ minutes of this game is beyond me

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@Spotify @oneman1000_

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@TTrimoreau using clerk now

[Emmanuel Acquah @eyacquah]

@yao_dg The second point here is incredibly important. It should be easier for citizens to know of these events

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

As engineering, product, design, DS, etc. melt into a new kind of role, I was reflecting on what roles might look like in the future. For example, when I look at the Claude Code team I see what I think is five archetypes:

1. Prototyper: comes up with brand new ideas; churns out many ideas, most of which don't ship
2. Builder: quickly turns a prototype/idea into production-grade product/infra
3. Sweeper: cleans up the UI, simplifies the code and system, unships, optimizes performance
4. Grower: takes a product that has been built and iterates on it to improve Product-Market Fit
5. Maintainer: owns a mature system to make it secure, reliable, fast, and efficient as it scales

Many people span across 2 roles, and sometimes 3 roles. I also notice that these roles are not really tied to job function -- eg. across Anthropic, some designers match category 1, some 2, some 3; same for engineers, PM, DS.

A healthy team needs a mix of these, depending on the product:

- A product that is new and pre-PMF needs people that are strong at 1+2+3
- A product that is growing and has found PMF needs 2+3+4 and some 5
- A product that has strong PMF needs 3+4+5 and some 2

Maybe product roles of the future will look more like this, and less like the domain-specific roles of today?

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

I'm afraid we've entered a dark era in AI model development and access.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The best predictor of success for tech companies, at every stage from during the YC batch to public company with billions in revenue, is the rate of shipping new stuff.

[Emmanuel Acquah @eyacquah]

@PolymarketSport And they will never

[Emmanuel Acquah @eyacquah]

@Kappaemme1926 I ask because, I’m often asked by folks new to tech how to become SWEs in the AI era, and it’s been hard recommending a specific path since I learnt to code from the pre-AI era

[Emmanuel Acquah @eyacquah]

@Kappaemme1926 How did you learn to build products? Did you take courses or vibe code your way through?

[Emmanuel Acquah @eyacquah]

@yaw_bossman It won’t stop, because it’s essentially a commercial break bringing in millions of dollars
Their bet is people will get used to it, similar to how timeouts exist in other sports like NBA and NFL

[Emmanuel Acquah @eyacquah]

@knowRowan Using Clerk, good so far, with a really generous free plan

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If you want something from someone, make it clear what. It's not imposing to ask explicitly for something; it's imposing to be vague and make the recipient work to figure out what you want.

[Emmanuel Acquah @eyacquah]

@Josephnartey_ They’re just jealous bro