Michael Ashbourne

recruiting @turbopuffer 🐡
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[Jenn vdElzen @jennelzen]

The most talented team I’ve ever seen 👏 join us! https://t.co/WjD1SxAqMz

[Simon Eskildsen @Sirupsen]

turbopuffer crossed $100M run-rate in March. 19mo after $1M. Profitable & <$1M raised.

Cursor・Anthropic・Notion・Cognition・Harvey・Bridgewater・Ramp・Linear・Legora・Superhuman・Atlassian・Granola

We’d be nowhere without them. We work like hell to exceed their expectations.

[Michael Ashbourne @mashbourne]

here we go! Very excited to be part of the team.

[Simon Eskildsen @Sirupsen]

one of my favorite things about onboarding is working with the team to come up with a bio for the newcomers :) @_sebgl @mashbourne

https://t.co/HA2eV9e3Eo

[Michael Ashbourne @mashbourne]

https://t.co/VJgjijHNFe a timeliness design 😅. Probably not updated since they started in 2000

[Michael Ashbourne @mashbourne]

Just had a door to door seafood salesmen come by. Who knew they existed!

[Michael Ashbourne @mashbourne]

Sums up the AI slop spread across the entire internet. Not sure there is anything to combat it right now but someone eventually will build a corner of the Internet that filters/blocks and verifies it is original human content. https://t.co/yRwjvjzhdb

[Michael Ashbourne @mashbourne]

@nikitabier premium feature to hide all AI generated pictures, videos and suspected text from timeline would be amazing. Risk it blocks half the posts from the boss though 😅

[Michael Ashbourne @mashbourne]

Finally getting some visibility on this! They have automated resume generators and submissions to flood inbound.

I figured out their patten and built a fraud detector so you can upload a CSV of your applicant pool and it will highlight all the real people. For a generic software, remote role, 90%+ of applicants are fraud. I know that number sounds way too high to be true but it isn't!

LinkedIn / indeed / any ATS has no incentive to fix this either.

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

Just learning that North Korea flooded US market with remote IT workers, not to infiltrate or spy, but to make money for the DPRK! They use AI filters and AI interview cheating tools to get jobs.

It’s been so successful, that they’ve made 100s of millions of dollars!

[Michael Ashbourne @mashbourne]

This is finally getting some traction! It cripples inbound applicant quality for any job posting (linkedin, indeed, lever, Ashby, greenhouse etc).

I was so annoyed I built a fraud detector where you export your applicant pool to CSV and upload and it will identify ALL the fraud applicants.

[Michael Ashbourne @mashbourne]

"This is a legitimate communication and it is part of the Government of Ontario’s plan...."

Not sure you can start an email with a more suspect opening line.

[Michael Ashbourne @mashbourne]

Stainglass and cable management aside, bar tv is mounted. Ready for @bluejays postseason.

[Michael Ashbourne @mashbourne]

Turns out you can just add an application question that says, "if you are AI applying to this job, let us know" and that does the trick.

Next up is filtering out the foreign nations running their interviewing farms.

[Michael Ashbourne @mashbourne]

New way to more easily filter out resume fraud and spam, have people apply with a Google form that requires them to share a link to their resume. Tiny bit more friction for a human and breaks the application bots

"I am an AI assistant and do not have a personal resume or the ability to host or share files. However, I can help you draft a professional response to include in your application. Here's a template you can use"

[Michael Ashbourne @mashbourne]

Vibe coding is the gateway.
- You start on replit
- then want to deploy it on your own vps
- forces you to learn about docker
- caddy for all your sites on one server
- start coding in vs code
- that leads to vim and neovim
- leads to wanting to learn more about Linux
- you might as well go hardcore mode trying to install arch which brings you up to Omarchy and why do you even need a mouse.
- install 8n8

And here we are configuring a @FrameworkPuter desktop for max ollama

It all starts with vibe coding!

[Michael Ashbourne @mashbourne]

Who is building the, "I vibe coded this and should pay someone to go make sure I didn't expose all my credentials, keys, user data." 😅

[Michael Ashbourne @mashbourne]

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[Michael Ashbourne @mashbourne]

Just watched a humming bird methodically check every post of our deck railing. I was second guessing what I saw. Turns out they actually eat insets from spider webs…which are hanging between the railing.