Jon Bell

Building @obvious. Cofounder @joinentree. Prev @Netflix, @Mailchimp, @Udacity, and a recovering politico.

[Jon Bell @jonbell]

@patrickc What we’re building @obvious

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@benblumenrose So good Ben and Robyn!😍

[David Boskovic @dboskovic]

specs are half "intent engineering" (thanks @jonbell) and half archeology

specs should never state an archeological fact without you being able to instantly reference the source

working with the incredible @AdamMocarski on making this idea beautiful and useful today

[Jon Bell @jonbell]

@bindureddy @grok how does this compare to GPT 5.5 and GPT 5.4 mini?

[David Boskovic @dboskovic]

if software is spec, what if we got AI to make specs that weren't slop?

working on this

(very inspired by the beauty of https://t.co/Ay6AdyvOm8 by @danhollick)

[Jeff Weinstein @jeff_weinstein]

david showed me a demo of @obvious agents a few months back, and it was the first time i saw enough of the stack coming together that a normie startup could continuously and safely delegate complex, multi-hour engineering (and non-engineering) tasks to a non-human.

[Jon Bell @jonbell]

@michal_gren I'm in

[Jon Bell @jonbell]

@obvious now has galleries for better visual organization.

[Jon Bell @jonbell]

😊 One of the things I love about building in this moment is rediscovering and relearning the primitives/foundations across so many disciplines:

- Computer Science
- Psychology
- Human Computer Interactions
- Philosophy
- Aesthetics & Ergonomics
- Writing, Language, and Literature
- etc

What a wonderful time to build and learn.

[Jon Bell @jonbell]

My siblings are the best

[Jon Bell @jonbell]

AI making an impact in the real world. That’s the goal we build towards at @obvious

[Jon Bell @jonbell]

@t_blom Working on it with @obvious applications

[Jon Bell @jonbell]

@dboskovic I know a guy

[Jon Bell @jonbell]

@karrisaarinen We’re both language machines. The affordances we’ve used to organize ourselves should work to organize human<>agent collaboration.

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@rauchg Remarkable. Welcome to the club. Our stack is 👦🏽👦🏽👦🏽👦🏽👧🏽👶🏽

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@obvious

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@businessbarista Claude

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@blvckledge automation

[Jon Bell @jonbell]

@v_computer Looks rad! Would love to play