Ian Harvey

Attempting to build useful things. prev @ajnafi | prev @makerdao

[Ian Harvey @ith_harvey]

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence...

[Ian Harvey @ith_harvey]

“Ship it, make no mistakes.”

[james hawkins @james406]

parents: "move out"

girlfriend: “quit being such a loser”

boss: "work harder"

claude: "uber for dogs (the dogs are the drivers) is a great idea, you should absolutely pursue it"

[Ian Harvey @ith_harvey]

@ApollosMission Rust.

[Ian Harvey @ith_harvey]

The harness is the kitchen.
The context is the ingredients.
The plan is the recipe.
The output is the dish.

[Ian Harvey @ith_harvey]

"Honey it's 3 am and the kids have school tomorrow... Go over there and tell him to stop buying sunlight."

[shirish @shiri_shh]

This startup lets you ORDER SUNLIGHT from space to your exact location in 30 seconds 😭

[Ian Harvey @ith_harvey]

You are employable to the extent that you can catch an agent's mistake...

Employees train the agent.
Owners own the configuration.

Every human's job is to create a system that teaches an agent.

Every agent config change will be a guaranteed improvement with back testing and evals.

The loop:
observe the output -> catch the agent's mistake -> add a regression test -> re-run the task.

[Ian Harvey @ith_harvey]

@jaibhavnani insurance

[Ian Harvey @ith_harvey]

@Kazuya_888 Token holders need protections

[Ian Harvey @ith_harvey]

Hyper productivity is a gateway drug

[Julien Barbier 🙃❤️🏴‍☠️ @jbarbier]

Using Claude Code has a weird side effect: You don't just get more productive, you actually want to work more.

There's something addictive about watching a product being born in real time in front of your eyes.

"One last feature" after "one last feature" and it's already past 3am.

[Ian Harvey @ith_harvey]

The goal:

Exchange LLM tokens for dollars

[Ian Harvey @ith_harvey]

The choke point for iteration speed switched from how fast can we build it to how fast can we make decisions.

"Qualified" now means "I trust your judgement".

[Ian Harvey @ith_harvey]

In the AI age skills are apps. Yet everyone gives their skills away for free.

Skills need to be executable in a sandboxed environment where the author protects their IP and the customer (user of the skill) has assurances their data used in context doesn’t leak.

[Ian Harvey @ith_harvey]

The only moats left in software are network effects, distribution and brand.

Brand trust matters most when apps hold sensitive data (thus high switching costs in fintech).

[Max Resnick @MaxResnick]

First they came for the programmers and I said nothing because I was not a programmer.

Then they came for the Excel monkeys and I said nothing because I was not an Excel monkeys.

Then they came for the mathematicians and I said nothing because I was not a mathematician.

Then they came for the mechanism designers and there was nobody left to stand up for us.

[Ian Harvey @ith_harvey]

@frankdegods Button? What’s that?

Where we’re going you’ll get a notification that a tasks done you didn’t even know you needed to do.

[Ian Harvey @ith_harvey]

The endgame is a handful of user interfaces, everything else will be APIs.

[Naval @naval]

All the American AI companies talk about sharing the wealth, but all the top open source models are Chinese.

[Ian Harvey @ith_harvey]

Models will have better context than a human could ever have.

You will be judged on your ability to express intent.