Marco🇮🇹

Aerospace engineer, ex F1
Building with agents

[Marco🇮🇹 @marcomagnusai]

Facts

[Thariq @trq212]

very weird thing happening rn

technical people are sad, they think their skills are now useless

non-technical people are desperately wishing they were more technical so they could use agents better

[Felix Rieseberg @felixrieseberg]

The coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic. I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal. I removed it from loops this month.

I have a spicy, optimistic take - I think there's an opportunity for junior engineers: https://t.co/PVvpQCbQtK

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

For centuries, the architecture of the firm has barely changed: hierarchies of people organized into departments and coordinated through bureaucracy.

AI agents are about to upend that.

We’re moving toward the self-driving company where humans exercise judgment and agents execute most of the work.

At Replit, we’re building the foundation for this new kind of company. We’re calling it “the Agent Habitat.”

Marc Andreessen wrote a fantastic piece placing this shift in the history of computing. Every major computing revolution began with chaos before businesses figured out how to harness it.

[Marc Lou @marclou]

You can’t copy trust.
You can’t copy a server.
You can’t copy proprietary data.

There’s still a moat.

But not for wrappers with 90% margins.

[Marco🇮🇹 @marcomagnusai]

Tuesday motivation

[SMB Attorney @SMB_Attorney]

The old world is dead, ladies and gentlemen. Nobody has 20 years of experience in what comes next. We’re all learning. The playing field is wide open. Light a fire under your ass and go build something. It’s Monday. Run through a fucking brick wall. Let’s go 🔥 🔥🔥

[vas @vasuman]

The biggest AI workflows, ripe for agent-ification in each department, that we've seen at Varick:

1. Finance
a. Manage AP exceptions: most AP teams are managing 600-800 exceptions a month where invoices don't match POs or receipts and require manual resolution
b. Automate your month end close: background execution of bank recs, accruals, intercompany, etc. can get your close cycle from 18-22 days to 7-9 days
c. Cash application and collections: automate matching remittance advice to open invoices and getting customers to pay on time

2. Sales Ops
a. Manage CRM data and rep admin: we see sales reps spend 38% of their time updating Salesforce
b. Deal desk approvals: we see deals take 23 days to get discounts, pricing, etc. approved
c. Prepare for forecast calls: ensure all the right data is available for each deal to prepare for Monday forecast calls (call notes, stage changes, next steps, etc.)

3. HR
a. Manage payroll changes: compare your ATS, HRIS, and payroll systems before payroll to make sure all new hires, raises, terminations, etc. are accurate. Most payroll corrections are due to issues before the payroll run.
b. Handle employee inquiries: we've seen up to 80% of inquiries for PTO, benefits, policy questions, etc. can be handled without human intervention
c. Onboarding: manage the process from offer acceptance to day 1, including background checks, equipment, account provisioning, I-9, etc.

4. Legal
a. Redline contracts: reduce turnaround time from 5+ days to same day for first pass redlines on NDAs, MSAs, vendor contracts, etc. based on your contract playbook
b. Contract intake: manage the intake process for contracts, including determining the requestor, type of contract, contract template, contract lawyer, etc.
c. Track contract obligations: extract contract renewal dates, notice periods, auto-renewal provisions, etc. from signed contracts

5. Operations
a. Disruption management: move from a week-long process to manage shipment delays, supplier issues, etc. to a few hours
b. Order management exceptions: many orders have exceptions that require manual management, whether it's a customer on credit hold, bad ship address, lack of inventory, etc.

6. Procurement
a. Supplier onboarding: reduce the time it takes to onboard new suppliers from 26 days to 4 by automating collection of W-9s, banking info, insurance, sanctions, etc.
b. 3-way match: compare invoices to POs and receiving documents to identify instances of duplicate invoices, invoices over PO price, etc.

7. IT
a. Joiners, movers, and leavers: ensure employees have all the right access on day 1, instead of day 4, and remove access the day they leave
b. Ticket routing: we see 1 in 3 IT tickets are routed to the wrong team and require rerouting

8. Marketing
a. Speed to lead: enrich, score, and route inbound demo requests to the right sales rep in under 5 minutes
b. Media reconciliation: reconcile media invoices to insertion orders and media actually run to identify the 8-12% of media spend that is lost

9. Customer Operations
a. Route escalations to the right team the first time, instead of having them bounce back and forth between support and engineering multiple times
b. Create case summaries to ensure your engineering team doesn't send cases back for additional details

All of these can be run in the background using your existing systems (NetSuite, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Dynamics, etc.) and exceptions can be routed to your people.

If you can solve these for your clients, you'll make them very happy.

But in order to succeed across the entire company, you have to go about this systematically.

Read more on how to go about it below:

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

The courage to try, the humility to learn, the will to never give up.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Your mindset is one of the most powerful tools you possess.

When you know your worth, have clarity about your goals, and believe in what's possible, you begin to see opportunities where others are very likely to see obstacles.

[Marco🇮🇹 @marcomagnusai]

@marclou Congrats

[alexei @alexeixbt]

this psychologist literally explained how expecting the best outcome is actually the key to rewiring your brain for success.

[Marco🇮🇹 @marcomagnusai]

Feedback loop is the most powerful tool you can ever you use.

For everything

[Marco🇮🇹 @marcomagnusai]

@brandon_galang Respect

[Marco🇮🇹 @marcomagnusai]

@anah_sahh 🤣

[Marco🇮🇹 @marcomagnusai]

True

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“Winners win because they decide they’ve already won and let reality catch up.”

Jay Yang nailed it.

[Marco🇮🇹 @marcomagnusai]

I hope so

[Nick Dobos @NickADobos]

The assumption AI regresses intelligence to average is fundamentally wrong

Corrected charts:

[Marco🇮🇹 @marcomagnusai]

@drayinvests Source?

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

Act like your future self.

"Don't act like the person you used to be. Act like the person you're gonna become. And I promise you that mental mind shift alone will carry you forward."

[Marco🇮🇹 @marcomagnusai]

@michaelsikand Facts

[Marco🇮🇹 @marcomagnusai]

Great advice

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Demis Hassabis on choosing what’s worth spending your life building in a world changing this fast:

“Going after hard problems and deep problems, it’s no more difficult in some ways than going after a shallower, simpler, more superficial problem. They’re just differently difficult.”

“Given life’s very short and you only have so much time and energy, you might as well put your life force into something that will really make a difference.”

“If you start off on a deep tech journey today... you’re talking about a 10-year journey for true deep tech. So now you have to consider AGI appearing in the middle of that journey.”

“Imagine what that world would look like and then build something that would be useful if that comes in halfway through.”

[Marco🇮🇹 @marcomagnusai]

@kevinxu 🤣