Michiel Sikkes

CTO at Firmhouse. Please consider the environment before running your business. Join the club.

[Michiel Sikkes @michiels]

Product/company tools we're using @firmhouse for day-to-day stuff that could fit in one tweet. (Probably) most used first:

- @linear
- @SlackHQ
- @intercom
- @github
- Google Apps (email, calendar)
- @basecamp
- @heroku
- @NotionHQ
- @AppSignal
- @CircleCI
- @pingdom

[Michiel Sikkes @michiels]

Can we already phone call / voice mode with a remote Codex thread?

[Tom Blomfield @t_blom]

I just bought a Tesla Model Y

Full Self Driving is one of the most impressive pieces of technology I’ve ever experienced.

I now wish I’d got it a year ago.

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

The productivity of working 1 minute every 30 minutes for 16 hours (i.e. 32 minutes) steering agents is much greater than working 8 hours a day (i.e. 480 minutes)

[Michiel Sikkes @michiels]

@mitchellh FSD game changer!

[Michiel Sikkes @michiels]

@rsdgpt Create the views/roles that let you to hide sensitive data. Give agent code access so it knows the queries your code generates.

[Kieran Klaassen @kieranklaassen]

stop obsessing over which model to use.

They're all great. The app is what shapes your thinking. Pick the one that makes you reach for it.

[Michiel Sikkes @michiels]

Multi-user agent harnesses are the next best thing.

[ol’ stocky ⛳️ @oldstocky]

Manifesting a summer like Hiroshi Nagai’s artwork

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@t_blom This problem will naturally tend to go away as companies are grown from the start using AI. Then you don't need to extract any domain knowledge from people's heads; it will never have been in people's heads.

[Michiel Sikkes @michiels]

@guinnesschen Do you have a command or custom skill to spawn new worktree threads? I couldn’t get Codex to do it. Only as subagents. Apparently this is native?

[David Senra @davidsenra]

When Shopify stock dropped 80% from all-time highs some employees were left with stock options that were essentially worthless.

So @tobi completely rebuilt Shopify’s compensation structure in a way no other company does: letting employees choose how much they want to be paid in stock, RSUs, cash, and even Shop Cash.

“ You can change it every quarter. You decide how much money you want.”

“ You can even use a tool to lock in the value of the stock you receive for three years.”

“ You have full agency and you make this choice.”

“ It's very popular.”

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

So proud of this new site. Straightforward, readable, calm.

You should go check out everyone else's website in our industry. The usual suspects.

Can anyone tell the difference between them? It's like they've been all been sucked into the same black hole and hit their own singularity. No differentiation. Identical messaging. Wild claims of helping you achieve a 24/7 AI work fantasy. Really? There's that much work that needs to happen behind your back while you're sleeping? Since when? And who created that illusion? Agents with creepy masks and emotionless faces? What? The cosplay is something else.

[Michiel Sikkes @michiels]

@sherifgjini No users

[Michiel Sikkes @michiels]

@DougKennedy93 Play RTS / complex city builders. Best for training context switching and managing agents.

[Michiel Sikkes @michiels]

@petergostev Yeah. Target a file. Keep updating that file.

[Michiel Sikkes @michiels]

@sandislonjsak 🤝

[Michiel Sikkes @michiels]

@TTrimoreau Service as a Software

[Michiel Sikkes @michiels]

@uday_devops Both

[Michiel Sikkes @michiels]

@ryancarson Agents will manage you

[Michiel Sikkes @michiels]

@TimoBuilds_ Damn. First one always