MCPs can be much more than just a way to integrate with external services.
with clever responses and prompting you can make them take control over the harness ux and fake an agentic experience!
Engineers spend an average of 48 days going from application to accepted offer according to Ashby
The actual interviewing takes about 3.5 hours, most of the time they're actually just waiting
We compared that benchmark with one of the fastest candidate journeys on Fonzi:
performance is the audio of software!
you can watch a 480p movie with decent sound, but try watching an imax movie with shit audioโฆdesign only really shines if you can make it so smooth that it feels otherworldly
nobody thinks how much configuring your bundled correctly matters for cold starts.
bundling all packages and minification cut 1.5s on a decently big project!
thatโs the difference between someone becoming a user and just closing the tab because โit took forever to loadโ!
there's no a better way to welcome the fall than by doing a deep cleanup on the company's main repo!
so far today:
- hand rewrite of the agends.md
- removed all dead code
- pruned skills and rewrote the remaining
- improved performance all around
life is good
Applied AI startups I'm working w/ that are hiring software engineers. They're rethinking legacy industries that runs on brokers, admins, spreadsheets, phone calls.
You've seen a similar playbook w/ Harvey (legal, $5B+), Abridge (medical scribing, $5B+) and others.
The fastest 0โ$50M ARR runs in software history are disproportionately on this list because the pricing of selling replaced labor vs software has a much higher ceiling.
Corridor, AI Native Benefits Brokerage.
Clad, AI Construction Management Software.
Arzana, AI Powered Office Automation for Manufacturers
Cortexa, Practice Dashboard & Analytics for Therapists
You can text Fonzi (my recruiting agent) at 646-236-3745 or onboard at https://t.co/XgBSi8xSSI
Make an account, start getting interview requests, accept the ones you're interested in and we'll intro you.
I added a a stick shift to my computer. It's like Raycast but for truckers.
Window management, LLM Model selection, Shift up/down for reasoning levels.
It feels right
vibe coding in nyc subway: 10/10
the chaos, unreliable network, and most times limited to a phone! itโs the ultimate test for how good are your prompts
and then you have skillsโฆ keep them simple, clearly defined purpose, and focused to tasks agents arenโt great at or if you want to standardize a process
reminder to pay attention and carefully manage your AGENTS.md
your personal/global should represent YOU! how you work, think, code preferences, etc.
the repo's should explain how it's structured, a glossary, and high level guidance that should be followed across the team