Ivan

Building SupportWing: AI-first Customer Support Platform | Software Engineer at @dnsimple

[Ivan @ivan__bits]

@midego1 @josefandre_ I’ve been doxxed

[Ivan @ivan__bits]

@VanpeltVentures Sounds rough that’s time no one can give you back. If only there was a way to see what talks would be about or a buzzer like in Britain’s Got Talent. If you get buzzed by enough people the talk ends and move to the next or you get the time to network. 😁

[Ivan @ivan__bits]

@VanpeltVentures Thanks for sharing the first time you told me about it I dug into it and turns out the concept is applied to many aspects of design “Rule of Thirds” and there is also the “Phi Grid” based on the golden ration.

[Ivan @ivan__bits]

@midego1 I’ll give this a try.

[Ivan @ivan__bits]

@midego1 Looks very reasonable approach. How do you improve the system, task variance means mileage varies and common retries are burning more tokens?

[Ivan @ivan__bits]

@oli_tools I’ve been waiting for this. Thanks a bunch!

[Ivan @ivan__bits]

@offpaths Great edit!

[Ivan @ivan__bits]

@oli_tools @martinrue @offpaths @stevie_builds @chrissyinspace @dayonefoundry @onlinedopamine @adam_riha_ @nhoss2 Proof is in the changelog.

[Ivan @ivan__bits]

https://t.co/tSSwnVMPHI

[Ivan @ivan__bits]

TIL: there is a fun project called "Honest Hacker News" which cuts through the BS and updates the post titles with what they actually are. Link in the comments.

[Ivan @ivan__bits]

@Google what am I looking at?

[Ivan @ivan__bits]

@martinrue It’s always great fun talking with Martin except this time there was a twist - we recorded it. It was great fun and I hope to do it again, and get better at it.

[Ivan @ivan__bits]

The moment when @github is down and your AI agents are trying to push their changes... tokens burned for nothing

[Ivan @ivan__bits]

I agree. And the outcome a VC is looking for is almost always an outsized return for their LPs. Unless the fund is a mission-driven one.
The "fast" part is not quite true. Because they want you to hit targets that would guarantee your next big funding round until you go public or get acquired, the timeline here is 5-10 years. If you fail to hit targets then you are a concern and will be replaced and the company's fate is a dice toss.

[Ivan @ivan__bits]

Except they can! If you are built on a platform, there is a risk that the platform will block you or make you obsolete. Or a vendor doesn't like your business and blocks you.

I am a fan of building stuff. How? It doesn't matter!

Taking VC money is not bad, if you are aligned with the outcomes you are both looking for and what it might mean for the business in case of failure to achieve them.

Bootstrapping just means you are always in control of how you react to events and are always heavily resource-constrained.

[Ivan @ivan__bits]

@tibo_maker Prompting the community to build you a tool 😂. Maybe offer to be their first customer and spend time to explain your pain, current workflow, etc. Or hire a dev and build this internally, if this is going to save you a lot of time sounds like a good investment.

[Ivan @ivan__bits]

@LukaPiskorec This gives me Arcane vibes.

[Ivan @ivan__bits]

@inkko44 @windsurf_ai Have you tried Claude Code?

[Ivan @ivan__bits]

@leojrr Don't take it personally. When you put out credentials in public they will be compromised no question about it. A lot of bots scan the web for these things.
I would suggest including a rule in cursor to be security conscious.