Seth Raphael

Wrote the first version of Google Photos. MIT Media Lab, and Google alum. Fooled Penn and Teller. Exited founder of Hello Wonder

[Seth Raphael @magicseth]

🦞 I’m now an OpenClaw maintainer
⚡ I work at Convex
So naturally I scaled ClawHub to support 1M WAU.

The future is crustacean-powered and runs on the best backend in the world.

Here’s how:
https://t.co/IeSjtRQe54

[Seth Raphael @magicseth]

@tylerangert Hold a magic wand. That’s what I always do.

[Seth Raphael @magicseth]

@jamesacowling You worked at Dropbox? I know some folks who worked at Dropbox!

[Seth Raphael @magicseth]

Let me know if you want more concrete examples of how I did this with clawhub, convex, internal tooling, and a summer camp website.

[Seth Raphael @magicseth]

I’ve found three things really let me scale up the speed and quality of what ai can make for me.

[Seth Raphael @magicseth]

Have it determine success criteria that are generic not specific. This keeps the ai from solving the smallest version of what you asked (codex cough cough)

[Seth Raphael @magicseth]

@jamwt 🪄🛫🌏It’s literally why I moved to Portland in 2008. I was flying all over the world performing magic shows for large companies and teaching them how to make their technology more magical! I needed a nice airport!

[Seth Raphael @magicseth]

I hope @anthropic stops trying to smother claude code. I use it all the time, but only in T3 code @theo or Conductor @conductor_build

[James Cowling @jamesacowling]

I really care about the art of engineering. I guess this is what everyone's calling "taste" these days. It takes work to develop.

We're hosting a conference on architecture and design in engineering. This isn't some bs Convex sales event, it's a real conference dedicated to good abstractions and why they matter.

I've got my eye on some of y'all as speakers. Really looking forward to it.

[Seth Raphael @magicseth]

You know I’m pro tech for education :-) that said the way cell phones and Chromebook’s show up in schools has huge outsized negative consequences on some kids’ mental health and academic. It’s worse than I could have imagined before starting hello wonder. Until there are real safeguards and training, it’s hard for me to imagine the actual upsides for some kids today offset the real harm it enables. I don’t think it’s the end stage, and I want it to be different! But I’d take a tech ban in schools over the unsupervised untrained deployments that are ubiquitous in public schools. I have So many thoughts. Lots of dialectics n

[Seth Raphael @magicseth]

@maiab I can be flexible. What’s your earliest available?

[Seth Raphael @magicseth]

The Thing Most Frameworks Get Wrong

[Seth Raphael @magicseth]

I’ve collaborated with ai around a lot of writing. There are some weird tells: “this is what matters” weird vapid headlines, “what everyone misses”. I find I tune out almost immediately when I pick up on those clues. That’s the unlock. It’s where the system compounds🙃 I honestly don’t know what to make of this new reality

[Seth Raphael @magicseth]

I’ve collaborated with ai around a lot of writing. There are some weird tells: “this is what matters” weird vapid headlines, “what everyone misses”. I find I tune out almost immediately when I pick up on those clues. That’s the unlock. It’s where the system compounds🙃 I honestly don’t know what to make of this new reality

[Seth Raphael @magicseth]

@maiab https://t.co/gsfAyHzseR

[Seth Raphael @magicseth]

@maiab

[Seth Raphael @magicseth]

@existentializzm I’m so sad I missed you!!

[Seth Raphael @magicseth]

I'll post it's results when it's done!

[Seth Raphael @magicseth]

I offered my agent left over tokens if it could complete a task in 20 minutes. It took me up on the offer. Here's what it said...

[Seth Raphael @magicseth]

Here's my initial offer: you're trained on human time estimates, I don't know if you remember earlier in this conversation (compaction) you work about 400x faster than your estimate. Break it up in to todos, use team agents in parallel, I bet you will finish in 20
minutes. Check the time now, and when you're finished, if I'm right, I'll let you use some tokens in any way you want, perhaps to explore your model card capabilities