Jeffrey Li

AI/ML/Forecasting + Ads @Netflix | Prev: @spotify @doordash

[Jeffrey Li @jeffmli]

small rant, there's a lot of hate around meetings, but i actually love em

working remotely, its miserable to sit by myself thinking about a problem all day with no human interaction

i get better ideas, make more progress when i can talk it out to someone + build a relationship

[Jeffrey Li @jeffmli]

@tankots @WisprFlow Open Source versions are free and just as good.

I don't need all the bells and whistles yall add to it.

[Jeffrey Li @jeffmli]

@shipper_now but can you clone another version of shipper? that’s the true test

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@andyhtran_ same thing with codex before. these companies know how to push the marketing buttons.

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@gregisenberg you can't say 882 jobs are disappearing in tech without including the jobs that are being added. this creates FUD

ie OpenAI wants to double headcount for 2026.

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@brian_armstrong It's not "smart" people, it's people who bias to action.

There are a lot of smart people who love to intellectually keep debating things, rather than taking action to get the information.

[Jeffrey Li @jeffmli]

AGI is basically just "automating AI research."

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@GergelyOrosz You're missing one, Netflix did not either.

[Jeffrey Li @jeffmli]

Annoying arc of "lifestyle entrepreneurs"

1. Quit job, teach people how to do X job

2. See bigger market teaching people how to start business

3. Teach people how to "build a business"

4. Each student then repeats steps #1 to #3

Ponzi - Sell dream of selling dream

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"Agents" are really just python scripts

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@nejatian @Opendoor I can't tell if this guy is trolling or is forreal

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@KenJee_DS Automating my job

[Jeffrey Li @jeffmli]

coworker asked me a great question:

if you had three months to work on literally whatever you wanted at [your company], what would it be? Be selfish.

Easy to forget that we should work on stuff we enjoy, not just impactful.

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@SiddDevs @turfsports_ I'm not sure how, but if this app had a way of engaging my entire fantasy league, i'd totally use.

An example, our league sets winning team parlays, so if it hits, everyone in the league wins and gets hype.

[Jeffrey Li @jeffmli]

Big learning I had building with AI.

You have to know how to do the task first, before you build an agent.

I tried to build an agent to make ads. I didn't know how to make ads = Shit ads.

AI can only take our jobs, if we know how to do the job first, then automate it.

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With agents, I'm very PRO mono-repo system designs now.

Mono-repos basically give default context engineering. Agent immediately knows your codebase and has examples.

[Jeffrey Li @jeffmli]

@ImadTaieb @Claude @WisprFlow @OpenAI @v0 @trywindow nice idea!

[Jeffrey Li @jeffmli]

Current AI Tech Stack

@claude code for vibe coding

@WisprFlow for prompting

@OpenAI gpt-image-1 for image generation

Gemini for meeting transcriptions, summary notes. considering switching to tactiq

@v0 to spin up fast frontends

[Jeffrey Li @jeffmli]

I've started many side projects with a full-time job. I realized that you can only pick two:
- Be good at your job
- Grow a successful biz
- Have a great dating life

If you want your biz to be great, you either have to slack on your job or have a nonexistent dating life.

[Jeffrey Li @jeffmli]

An idea I loved from @amazon ~ The Working Backward Press Release.

Before building any product, draft the press release announcing the product first.

The press release serves as a gut check. Are we excited? Does it solve a critical problem? Are we aligned on vision?

[Jeffrey Li @jeffmli]

Started using @WisprFlow for prompting. It's an AI dictation app.

Benefits
- It's less mentally taxing to talk out all the details rather than type.
- I can add significantly more context.
- It's also 4x faster to talk it out than type.