Leckan M Ahmed

Founder at Think Zone LLC | SWE | Product Manager | MBA | Previously at AWS, Amazon, and Google

[Kiro @kirodotdev]

💡 Fascinating take by Marc Brooker, Distinguished Engineer, on Kiro and spec-driven development - moving beyond vibe coding to a new era where AI and structured specifications meet. An important perspective on where software development is heading.

👉 Read it here: https://t.co/wMwMdb12ib

#BuildwithKiro #CodingwithAI #SpecDrivenDevelopment

[Kiro @kirodotdev]

👻 Developers love Kiro! Try Kiro for free while in preview and let us know what you build! 👉 https://t.co/y5fY4kSyZu
#BuildwithKiro #CodingwithAI #KirodotDev

[Kiro @kirodotdev]

🔄 Tired of endless AI coding loops? 😕 Introducing Kiro with spec driven development!

💡 Instead of immediate code generation, with Kiro you can analyze requirements FIRST, creating specs you can review before coding.

👉 Learn more: https://t.co/yUxsbTM1t2

[Kiro @kirodotdev]

Ready to level up your dev game? The Code with Kiro Hackathon comes with $100K in prizes and one serious AI sidekick 👻

Kiro works alongside you from spec to prod. You dream it, Kiro helps you build it

Register at https://t.co/ocZdCiHwrO

#KiroDotDev #CodewithKiro #Hackathon

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Great energy from @SpaceX fans in Mexico

[Hedra @hedra_labs]

Introducing the research preview of our foundation model, Character-1. Available today at https://t.co/7FSVJiOlWS (on desktop and mobile).

* Infinite duration (30s for open preview)
* 90s generated per 60s (if our H100 supply holds)
* Expressive talking, singing, rapping characters

This is the first step in Hedra’s mission to build a multimodal creation studio accessible for everyone, giving creators complete control over emotional dialogue, movement, and (yes) entire worlds.

Pro tips in thread:

[Emmett Shear @eshear]

Today I got a call inviting me to consider a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to become the interim CEO of @OpenAI. After consulting with my family and reflecting on it for just a few hours, I accepted. I had recently resigned from my role as CEO of Twitch due to the birth of my now 9 month old son. Spending time with him has been every bit as rewarding as I thought it would be, and I was happily avoiding full time employment. I took this job because I believe that OpenAI is one of the most important companies currently in existence. When the board shared the situation and asked me to take the role, I did not make the decision lightly. Ultimately I felt that I had a duty to help if I could.

I have spent today drinking from the firehose as much as possible, speaking with the board, a small number of major partners, and listening to employees. Our partnership with Microsoft remains strong, and my priority in the coming weeks will be to make sure we continue to serve all our customers well. OpenAI employees are extremely impressive, as you might have guessed, and mission-driven in the extreme. And it’s clear that the process and communications around Sam’s removal has been handled very badly, which has seriously damaged our trust.

I have a three point plan for the next 30 days:
- Hire an independent investigator to dig into the entire process leading up to this point and generate a full report.
- Continue to speak to as many of our employees, partners, investors, and customers as possible, take good notes, and share the key takeaways.
- Reform the management and leadership team in light of recent departures into an effective force to drive results for our customers.

Depending on the results everything we learn from these, I will drive changes in the organization — up to and including pushing strongly for significant governance changes if necessary. I will be rolling these out as they become clear over the 30 day period. OpenAI’s stability and success are too important to allow turmoil to disrupt them like this. I will endeavor to address the key concerns as well, although in many cases I believe it may take longer than a month to achieve true progress.

I have nothing but respect for what Sam and the entire OpenAI team have built. It’s not just an incredible research project and software product, but an incredible company. I’m here because I know that, and I want to do everything in my power to protect it and grow it further.

It's now 1am and I'll pick this up tomorrow.

PS: I am posting this here both because I think it’s in the general public interest to know in this case, but please don’t expect all future internal comms to come through a public channel.

PPS: Before I took the job, I checked on the reasoning behind the change. The board did *not* remove Sam over any specific disagreement on safety, their reasoning was completely different from that. I'm not crazy enough to take this job without board support for commercializing our awesome models.

[Sam Altman @sama]

the mission continues

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and OAI's new leadership team and working with them. And we’re extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. We look forward to moving quickly to provide them with the resources needed for their success.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We're launching ten $100,000 grants for building prototypes of a democratic process for steering AI. Our goal is to fund experimentation with methods for gathering nuanced feedback from everyone on how AI should behave. Apply by June 24, 2023: https://t.co/kJG2bNnons

[AWS Storage @AWS_Storage]

Mission-critical workloads need advanced data services for data protection🔐. Attend the #Amazon EBS sessions at AWS re:Invent 2022 & learn about the various features built to protect your data at rest, in transit, & in volume backups #aws #reInvent. https://t.co/pUBacP8eiI

[AWS Storage @AWS_Storage]

“How can I get the most out of the storage resources I am provisioning on #AWS?”🤔. Attend the Amazon EBS sessions at #reInvent & learn more about optimizing your block storage to efficiently meet your application & business objectives. https://t.co/9dGPkqEJso

[AWS Storage @AWS_Storage]

Millions of #AWS customers use #Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). One reason is that we have evolved EBS over the years to build resiliency into its architecture. At #reInvent, learn how you can achieve both scale & resiliency using EBS for your storage. https://t.co/KorXDPUUUN

[Leckan M Ahmed @Leckan_M]

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[Leckan M Ahmed @Leckan_M]

Requesting faucet funds into 0x46137019D5F9C686AF4013c9FF638F5Cf6F93D21 on the #Rinkeby #Ethereum test network.

[Ezinne @ezinneuzoije]

@OdunEweniyi Since you're at the consideration phase, You can find MBA insights at @cityoflane

[Co-creation HUB (CcHUB) Limited @Cc_HUB]

Congratulations to @paystack on the acquisition by @stripe! 🎉

This is a huge win for the tech in #Africa and an indication of the great possibilities ahead.

Stripe acquires Nigeria's Paystack for $200M+ to expand into the African continent https://t.co/s1FcLTqj87