Gary Willmott 🙌

🚀 AI Product Leader | Startup Founder
👨🏻‍💻 Prev: GoDaddy (Product), Hi5 (exited), Delta (VA)

📝 How to Launch:

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@ProductHunt

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@SahilBloom Moving to a small coastal town, where I get to surf most days and don't have any comprehension of traffic

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@t_xu if you still have the original flyer, the internet will be so appreciative 🙏🏻

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Half an hour after @t_xu and @andyfang put PDF menus and a phone number on https://t.co/nIGDhnTOvI, someone ordered.

No app. No drivers. They delivered the food themselves.

How DoorDash got their first customers (First 5, issue #1):
https://t.co/lygbGEInxd

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Product idea: An anonymous "Kill Switch" plugin for meetings triggered via Slack.

​If 50% of the team hits it, the call drops instantly.

​The meeting host loses meeting Karma

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@tobi Can you remember how you got your first 5 customers?

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founder trying to keep their startup alive

[Mara Webster 🇬🇧🇺🇸 @Mara_Webster]

If anybody asks how I’m doing right now I’m going to send them this video as a representation of my current state of mind

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one boney m christmas album i refuse to remove

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finds late dad's vinyl collection
asks claude to make a playlist
ziggy stardust to sinatra to janis joplin
six hours of him

https://t.co/K1MDV23EvG

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too good not to share

[AA @measure_plan]

i made snake but the only way to move is by playing guitar chords

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

You should NEVER be downloading AI agent skills from the internet

It's the biggest attack vector for security breaches right now

Tons of skills in the public skill sites you see are compromised with prompts that open your computer up

Do this instead:

If you see any skill you want your agent to have, give the link to your agent

Say "look at what this skill does. I want you to do something similar. Think about how this fits into our workflow and how you'd use it. Then build your own version of it, custom for what we do"

Your agent then will build its own, secure version that can't have dirty prompts from random people on the internet

This is the biggest security practice you can implement

[Austen Allred @Austen]

At this point just rotate all your keys and APIs every day

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What he said 👏

[Aaron Levie @levie]

Great post on FDEs. Everyone should read it if you’re interested in this job category. This is a job that is going to be around as long as AI keeps changing rapidly, which it inevitably will.

People often wonder why isn’t this like just deploying other forms of technology in the past, like cloud.

Because something like cloud adoption affected a fairly concentrated set of users (developers and IT), and generally didn’t require a fundamental change to the workflows of employees to get the benefits of the new service being delivered on the cloud. At best you went to one training session and you were done.

With agents, the work to implement them is not only highly technical, but they directly impact the underlying workflows that people participate in. This means there’s a ton of technical work and change management that comes with it.

Further, the pace of change of cloud wasn’t nearly as quick, so there was a lot more time for best practices to propagate. Now, every model change means either something new can be done that wasn’t possible before, or some piece of scaffolding is now redundant or holding you back.

This is why it’s commonly easier for a vendor or partner that’s seen the implementation hundreds or thousands of times help do the work, even with internal support from the customer.

So, this job isn’t going away any time soon, and will be a great path for a lot of technical talent, especially early career.

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@bryan_johnson if you want scripture to pray into,
i thought this might be pertinent to you

1 cor 15:55 "O death, where is your victory? ... "

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Most of us in the Ai space are constantly looking for ways to stay focused, as it's so easy to multi-task with agents 🤹🏻‍♂️

Good music always works to stay in the flow 🎧

@claudeai noticed that

https://t.co/K67cRwWW6M

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@lennysan my barber, he does a great trim and helps me download my day 💈

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@InOneProjects tx for the feedback, also agree on most your points, it's good validation.

Still early days, will keep polishing 💅🏻

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@TeamYouTube received a DM, but still no email and follow up that was promised, its been 2 days already

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@TeamYouTube Please help, my gmail and Youtube
https://t.co/u9teOyS7jL was hacked and the hacker changed all recovery info (2FA, email, phone etc)

I've had this account for ±20 yrs and the google photos are timeless memories

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@MysticMall0w @grok Are they happy and content

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@EndWokeness why agents will overtake humans in getting the job done