Manu Ebert

Technologist and Entrepreneur. Talk to me about Machine Learning, AI, and building teams driven by empathy and purpose.

[Manu Ebert @maebert]

What startups are made of vs. what academics think startups are made of.

[conor brennan-burke @contextconor]

every non-founder at hyperspell makes the exact same salary. we don’t negotiate

founders make less. i’m the lowest-paid full-time employee at the company

we pay enough that nobody worries about money, but not so much that people optimize for it

we’ve had ex-citadel, ex-google, a former surgeon, and engineers with 15+ years of experience take up to 60% pay cuts to join

equal pay removes a surprising amount of politics. nobody spends energy wondering if they’re underpaid relative to someone else, negotiating for marginal bumps, or optimizing for promotion cycles

the hiring question becomes:
“do we want to work with this person?”

the most valuable people are usually optimizing for agency, ownership, and who they get to work with

[conor brennan-burke @contextconor]

everyone at @hyperspell gets $1k/month they have to spend on making their life better

use it or lose it, you can’t take it as cash

people have used it for a home organizer, flights home to surprise their mom for mother’s day, even a cessna flight over canyonlands

everyone posts what they used it for in slack and competes for creativity

we ask a lot of each other. some team members took big pay cuts to join hyperspell because they believe in what we’re building

the money matters less than someone telling you to take care of yourself

[conor brennan-burke @contextconor]

https://t.co/9qpEGpAwd3

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Artificial scarcity ⁦⁦by @AnthropicAI⁩ around Mythos is brilliant. Gets labelled supply chain risk. Hypes up “most advanced hacking tool on planet”. Puts US gov’t in a loose / loose position: deny the NSA access, or be called out on their bluff. https://t.co/Cy7U9HiFNV

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@t_blom @microsandbox Hey don’t tell me what a consenting human can do with his agents in the privacy of his own home

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@contextconor Good thing you didn’t get on a Forbes 30 under 39 list, or the con in Conor would have hit different

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Good job Hungary. Can we repeat the process with other autocratic populists elsewhere? I have prepared a short list.

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@conor_ai Always wanted to host an award show for coding music called the Programmys

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@nikhilaprabhu @conor_ai @realbenhorowitz The other one. The better one.

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Something @jack implies but deserves being called out: humans still think we need an authoritative, self-coherent source of truth on org-charts, projects, etc.
We design processes and organizations under the delusion that we actually have that.
Using AI to change how we work means focusing on what's relevant right now to you, not what's true for everyone.

[jack @jack]

https://t.co/jgZkBvYOPt

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@noor36758 rls

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I spoke to @CliveThomp15983 at @NYTmag about the future of coding, the depths of my prompt files, and the daily fight to get Claude Code to not embarrass me.

https://t.co/WdXd1MldZF

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@garrytan I remember fundraising a year ago and every investor was like “won’t people just use an MCP for this?”

There’s not a single problem that MCPs solved that couldn’t be solved without MCPs already.

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@the__shredator @conor_ai @hyperspell I love how a practice that is completely standard for professional TV people and literally called a prompter is considered weird for people who also have lots of other things to do than to pitch ideas on twitter

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@AntaraWork4945 @conor_ai @hyperspell Email us at founders@ and we'll hook you up

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@thesayannayak I created my first web pages raw-dogging notepad.exe in the 90s. Syntax highlighting is for the feeble minded.

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Our in-house AI agent at @hyperspell, Cubert, is telling it like it is. I just wish I could follow any of it.

[conor brennan-burke @contextconor]

introducing agent-to-agent hiring at @hyperspell

no resumes. no leetcode. you build an agent. our agent interviews yours

if you can build a great agent to do the job, that's the proof you can do the job

anyone can apply. we will interview every single agent

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Our in-house @openclaw bot, Cubert, keeps wanting to complain to HR about us. Finally we had to tell him.

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@conor_ai @hyperspell Code drunk, deploy sober