Mega Ifiok | AI & Dev

Full-Stack Dev & AI Automation Engineer. I build smart software
Building @Salespaddi

[Mega Ifiok | AI & Dev @MegaIfiok]

I just published AI Agents Are Not Replacing SaaS. They’re Replacing Passive Software https://t.co/VQflAchI9h

[Mega Ifiok | AI & Dev @MegaIfiok]

@DanielSmidstrup Just checked it out.
The positioning is clean.
What's surprised you most since launching?

[Mega Ifiok | AI & Dev @MegaIfiok]

Building Salespaddi.
Teaching AI how to sell without becoming an annoying salesperson. 😅

[Daniel Smidstrup @DanielSmidstrup]

Build-in-public has introduced me to many amazing people!

Looking to meet more.

What are you building?

[Mega Ifiok | AI & Dev @MegaIfiok]

That's the drill actually

[Paul Copplestone - e/postgres @kiwicopple]

there are now 10M developers using @supabase

3 million new developers in past 3 months

[Athan @athanzxyt]

Today we're proud to announce @copperlaneai $4.1M seed.

From couch-surfing and redeye flights to pitching on the sales floors of the banks we're now building for. From pivot hell to a product lenders actually run on. Building this with @briannajlin has truly tested me in ways nothing else ever has.

Building an autonomous agent for the most regulated financial industry isn't easy. We have to stay on the forefront of AI Safety and Research, and work to deliver that to one of the most traditional industries in the world.

Labs can build the models but don't know the domain. Incumbents know the loan but can't ship an agent.

Copperlane is both the research and the relationships. And we will continue to pioneer.

[Mega Ifiok | AI & Dev @MegaIfiok]

this is exactly what people still don’t get about AI products.
it’s not about adding AI to SaaS… it’s about rebuilding the system around what AI can actually do end-to-end

[Alex Konrad @alexrkonrad]

Salespeople have a problem: they only spend 21% of their time actually selling to customers 🤝

@mutinycorp CEO Jaleh Rezaei (@jalehr) thought she'd found a way to fix it. She worked with customers like Snowflake and Uber. Revenue reached 8-figures 📈

Which makes what happened next all the more shocking: she burned it all down 🔥

On The Upstarts Podcast, Jaleh shares why she took the tough decision to fire her customers, slash headcount and re-found her startup around an AI agent.

We go into AI's disruption of SaaS; her favorite advice from @fin's @destraynor on pivoting and from @ycombinator's @garrytan on showing the chart you don't want people to see; how to get over "Claude Spookies," and why speed is (mostly) all you need.

This season of the show is presented by @Rippling 🫡

CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
2:41 An AI agent for sales
7:04 Why an AI ‘blank canvas’ doesn’t work
10:38 Jaleh’s founder journey and Gusto lessons
17:01 Mutiny’s early software success
22:51 Jaleh’s Upstart Moment: tearing it down
24:42 Why you can’t rebuild a business halfway
27:15 Intercom’s founders share valuable advice
30:44 Focus on the business, not the optics
34:53 ‘Speed is the only thing that matters’
37:40 ‘Claude spookies’ in the AI app layer
43:59 Second-time founder advantage

Thanks for watching!

[Mega Ifiok | AI & Dev @MegaIfiok]

There's so much to be done. No fluff.
The most important part is: Are you doing the right thing?

[Mega Ifiok | AI & Dev @MegaIfiok]

Building memory for an AI sales agent.
Worked in testing.
Then real conversations broke it.
Key details got lost in noise, hurting follow-ups.
Spent hours on retrieval fixes, still not solved.
Might share a video tomorrow showing the issue and my fix.

[Mega Ifiok | AI & Dev @MegaIfiok]

Building software teaches you: everything is a system.

[Mega Ifiok | AI & Dev @MegaIfiok]

Salespaddi is my attempt at fixing broken sales and marketing systems for businesses.

[Mega Ifiok | AI & Dev @MegaIfiok]

I really Love

[Starlink @Starlink]

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[Mega Ifiok | AI & Dev @MegaIfiok]

The hardest part of coding is not code. it’s clarity.

[Mega Ifiok | AI & Dev @MegaIfiok]

Building @salespaddi feels like assembling a machine.

[Anuj @anujcodes_21]

🚨Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.

Taught by the people who built it.

Free. No registration. No paywall.

I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.

Watch it and bookmark it now.

[Mega Ifiok | AI & Dev @MegaIfiok]

nobody is coming to discover your skills.
ship something.

[Mega Ifiok | AI & Dev @MegaIfiok]

This AI is so good
If you are an AI Engineer and very good, I would love to connect

[🐾 @elsdawg]

a fan has just made an AI alternate version of events if Gabriel had scored his penalty

[Mega Ifiok | AI & Dev @MegaIfiok]

@0xzilla_ This is soo Good

[Mega Ifiok | AI & Dev @MegaIfiok]

Put your balls on the line for something and you will be rewarded for it
@im_roy_lee I'm so cut off for this

[Mega Ifiok | AI & Dev @MegaIfiok]

I am open to dev roles

[Mega Ifiok | AI & Dev @MegaIfiok]

I just published The Simplicity Pivot: Moving Past the Need to Write ‘Clever’ Code https://t.co/CrwEZkaAWY