Vasilios Syrakis is back
after the massive success of his Atlassian video, he just dropped a follow-up addressing everything
the stuff people really wanted to know:
> no university degree, dropped out after 10th grade, started in help desk
> taught himself everything from scratch - books, videos, no mentor
> he didn't break any NDA - Atlassian published more detailed info themselves
> the architecture was 10 years old - he'd build it completely differently today
and the thing that hit hardest:
> to everyone who felt impostor syndrome watching his first video - he said the gap between you and someone who knows more is usually just time, not intelligence
the full response is above
and he's building a control plane from scratch on camera soon so you can see exactly how it's done
the biggest ai skill is actually taste
ai makes it easy to generate ideas, content, designs, apps, workflows - basically anything
but when you can create 10 versions in seconds, the hard part becomes knowing:
- what’s actually good
- what’s worth building
- what should never exist in the first place
ai is raising the floor for everyone
taste and judgment are what still determine the ceiling
“agent harness” has suddenly become one of those ai terms i keep seeing everywhere lately
curious - what’s the simplest way you’d explain it to a non-technical person?
content is saturated
most of the internet is just filled with people repeating the same things in slightly different formats
what feels rare is finding people who actually know what they’re talking about.
people with real experience, taste, opinions and who can explain something in their own way instead of sounding like an ai summary of everyone else
back in 2020, the advantage was just showing up early
now the advantage is whether people trust your perspective enough to keep listening
stripe posted a new ai role for marketing called “forward deployed ai accelerator, marketing”
the job is basically:
- study how marketers work
- find repetitive tasks worth automating
- build ai tools and workflows around them
- help teams actually use ai consistently
each person works with a group of ~20 marketers and turns successful ai experiments into repeatable processes for the wider team.
interesting part is the role sits between marketing, ops, ai tooling, enablement, and change management
companies are hiring people whose entire job is helping teams change how work gets done with ai
i’ve been exploring different ways to build with ai lately-and something keeps coming up
tools like claude code or codex are powerful-but the workflow is still pretty developer-focused
you’re expected to set up a lot before anything actually runs-prompt files, codebase, integrations, scripts
it works-but it takes time and resources most teams don’t really have
that’s why no-code automation and agent builders feel more practical-faster to start, less setup
i tried a couple of tools recently-will share a quick video soon
what no-code automation or agent tools are you using?
i’ve been exploring different ways to build with ai lately-and something keeps coming up
tools like claude code or codex are powerful-but the workflow is still pretty developer-focused
you’re expected to set up a lot before anything actually runs-prompt files, codebase, integrations, scripts
it works-but it takes time and resources most teams don’t really have
that’s why no-code automation and agent builders feel more practical-faster to start, less setup
i tried a couple of tools recently-will share a quick video soon
what no-code automation or agent tools are you using?
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Huawei’s Pura 90 series comes with AI Posture Recommendations for better photos.
THIS is how AI is supposed to be used.
Yea, it’s way more useful than Google’s camera coach slop.
i think crypto marketing is going to change quite a bit soon
"interning" is dead and shitposting gets old fast when the market isn't turbo sending
believe there will be major shift toward substance and narrative building
marketers who have a deep understanding of the tech, dogfood their products, and are in tune with ecosystem/builders are best positioned to win
hiring purely for skills is overrated imo
in many cases, candidates with slightly less technical depth but strong social skills and easy to collab can be a better bet
because today it’s not just about execution, it’s about how well one communicates, shares, adapts and contributes to distribution
employee led marketing is real, and people who are easy to work with and visible online can drive far more impact than just “strong” individual contributors