Joe Koenig | Daedalus

Partner at Daedalus. We help SMBs automate workflows, build AI agents, and run better. Consulting + fractional CTO firepower. Less bullshit. Better systems.

[Flo Crivello @Altimor]

It's irresponsible to let humans review code

[Jerry Liu @jerryjliu0]

OCR is the perfect example of a use case that has been dominated by legacy/brittle systems, and can be solved both accurately and cheaply by applying the right amount of agentic intelligence.

A properly tuned agentic OCR needs to dynamically apply extra compute to complex elements, review and correct failures, and create the right semantic meaning throughout the page. It's a task that frontier models are both overengineered for in terms of cost and latency, and struggle at over a long tail of complex edge cases.

Check out this blog post by @LoganMarkewich below: https://t.co/41iPHRleIW

[Joe Koenig | Daedalus @InfiniteKoenig]

@dhh Absolutely, we do that all day at Daedalus!

[Tyler Denk 🐝 @denk_tweets]

hype up your friends who are chasing their dreams

> comment on their post
> support their business
> tell them you’re proud

support them just like you support celebrities who don’t even know you exist

[Joe Koenig | Daedalus @InfiniteKoenig]

@ClayCollins We build software for clients and their taste matters the most because they use it every day not us. However the clients who have no idea and ask us to build it for them with very little input rarely ever use the products we build for them despite them paying for it

[Joe Koenig | Daedalus @InfiniteKoenig]

@AdamDraper @lucasbagnocvaz It's not from a ride standpoint, it's a better seat and the car is a better experience internally as a passager. The car itself drives inferior to a waymo. You can feel and see the difference in the FSD ability

[Joe Koenig | Daedalus @InfiniteKoenig]

My wife and I host dinners at our house at least monthly if not more than monthly. We get very few invitations back despite hosting large parties, dinners, and social gatherings. No one hosts but us and our parents

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

New newsletter: THE DEATH OF THE AMERICAN HOST

The share of Americans who say they host friends or family at their home at least monthly has declined by 70 percent in the last 50 years.

https://t.co/pfubF2qz1v

[Joe Koenig | Daedalus @InfiniteKoenig]

@goitbykojiro Yeah we QA our products with computer use, multiple models, and a MacBook Air. Agents do the work and give you a report.

[Joe Koenig | Daedalus @InfiniteKoenig]

@financialsamura Yeah back in '08, the company I worked with asked everyone to agree to a small pay cut so no one had to get laid off and we all agreed to keep our colleagues and friends. However at the end of the year, they still paid bonuses to the executives. Brutal era

[Joe Koenig | Daedalus @InfiniteKoenig]

@petergyang We were just talking about this internally, Claude code is such a step back after using codex since 5.6 sol dropped. But opus 5.5 is really good. Ughhh

[Joe Koenig | Daedalus @InfiniteKoenig]

@lsukernik Our custom software company is all ex crypto/Web3 people. Super sharp bunch of people with great work ethics and vibes.

[Joe Koenig | Daedalus @InfiniteKoenig]

@shaneparrish 💯

[Joe Koenig | Daedalus @InfiniteKoenig]

Precisely. At Daedalus we're servicing a lot of clients and doing more work than we thought possible with agents, loops, and automations that allow us to feel like a much bigger firm than we really are

[Emile @goitbykojiro]

very interesting to see how other founders around me are leveraging AI set-ups to make everything more efficient internally. reality is that a tech start up with 50 employees 3 years ago only require 8-10 employees today if you know how to use the tools available.

[Joe Koenig | Daedalus @InfiniteKoenig]

@deepdivedenny Honestly one thing I've noticed is I thought I slept better after a light alcohol night, deeper sleep, earlier to fall asleep.

Data shows the opposite unfortunately, ruining the two drinks after a hard day ritual.

[Tim Draper @TimDraper]

AI will take everyone’s jobs.

... until they invent new ones.

AI alone probably won’t take your job.

But someone using AI might. So you should lean in to AI.

People react to new technologies in three ways:

1. The Resisters: "AI is ruining everything!"
2. The Ignorers: “I don’t understand AI.”
3. The Adopters: "How can I use this to get better?"

It's not AI vs. humans. It's humans with AI vs. humans without AI.

We’re not cutting our team because of AI.

We’re GROWING it.

Our team with AI can accomplish 10x more than our team without it.

Businesses without websites died in the 90s.

Same thing is happening now.

If you're not experimenting with AI in your industry, someone else is.

And they're going to serve your customers better.

Faster.

Cheaper.

The buggy whip makers of the 1800s became car mechanics.

They pivoted or perished.

Which camp are you in?

[Joe Koenig | Daedalus @InfiniteKoenig]

@warikoo @rajatsuri Agreed. I used Muse for the first time yesterday. It is what I will recommend to normies from now on. Not useful for AI-native folks but for the uninitiated it will be an incredible unlock to get them to see what personal AI agent can do for them.

[Joe Koenig | Daedalus @InfiniteKoenig]

@mrjasonchoi Agreed brother

[Naval @naval]

The best way to pace the frontier is to hold the labs fully liable for the behavior of their models.

[Joe Koenig | Daedalus @InfiniteKoenig]

@HamelHusain I feel the same thing about Grok-bot right now

[Joe Koenig | Daedalus @InfiniteKoenig]

@joenrv Absolute bullshit. Why does everything take so long nowadays? Season 2 of TV shows takes 3 years. We used to churn out 30 episodes a year in the '90s.