Joshua Crowley

Designer and Educator. @cursor_ai ambassador

[Joshua Crowley @ojschwa]

Big news: I've been selected as @cursor_ai Regional Lead Ambassador for Australia & New Zealand 🇦🇺🇳🇿

Almost a year into the Ambassador program, I've planned and cohosted 10 events in Sydney, run 50+ online workshops, and connected with thousands of people learning and shipping with Cursor.

Now I get to help others do the same. If you want to build community around Cursor in your city, anywhere in AU or NZ – I'll show you what's worked and help make it work locally for you. DMs open!

[Joshua Crowley @ojschwa]

Fun fact, every year at Design Outlook, I run a workshop on building and prototyping omni apps – software that can see, hear, and talk!

In my first year, 2024, I had very few models and it was very expensive and everything barely worked. We used VAPI and some rough @OpenAI prototypes – also, I had no way for the attendees to keep prototyping. Coding agents were barely working.

2025 was when OpenAI realtime api dropped and 4o! I managed to onboard the whole workshop into @cursor_ai for the first time. It was one of my first Cursor workshops, designers install node, building and deploying their own talking shopping list.

This year, @cursor_ai will be returning as well, @GeminiApp the Live API, and some hardware for the first time, my @M5Stack stackchan robots! I can't wait to recap with the group. I can't wait to recap with the group the struggles we had in prior years getting anything to work.

To be eligible to come along, you need to be in Melbourne in July and coming along to Design Outlook.

[geoff @GeoffreyHuntley]

TLDR: I’m looking for my next role. Who’s hiring?

hey folks, over the last 100 days i’ve had the privilege to do some talks around the world about where AI is perhaps going and already is which has been well received. it has provided a much needed break to reflect and ponder.

for those new to my feed, some quick intros.

for the last two years i’ve been dumping my ponderoos on my personal blog at https://t.co/GHqlHzVpuy, thinking about the domain of loop engineering with AI and verification topics to make this possible.

if you use any of the coding harnesses out there today, you are using some of my research related to context engineering and long term horizon goals. if you heard about ralph loops and agentic back pressure and wondered where the term came from hi 🫡

Anyway to cut the point of this article — i’m looking for my next role. i’ve been pondering about some of the ideas behind https://t.co/CnUhFhrNZ0 and whilst it’s nice to have the optionality to raise a round i consider now is not the right time to do it or explore these ideas for a couple years.

i’m based in Australia, Sydney specifically. Happy to travel as needed but remaining in Australia is a hard requirement (family that cannot relocate) so remote is preferred if not based in Sydney.

things that are interesting to me:
- applied AI research in the domain of software verification
- ai first organisation with minimal caps on token consumption
- software factories, formal verification and plt
- “the ai operating systems” (org chart transformations enabled through AI product)
- physical infrastructure
- teaching and knowledge sharing

about me:
- accomplished keynote/locknote speaker
- industry level influence and impact in AI
- previous roles include canva, optiver et al
- titles held: big iron (unix) field engineer, presales, business continuity planning, software engineering manager, principal software engineer, principal developer advocate.
- cycled through six countries on a unicycle, travelled around australia for five years remote working from a van and stole all the NFTs.

salary requirements:
- sf competitive (ie. my last role was AI within HFT)

how to contact me: [email protected]

reshares/retweets appriciated.

[Joshua Crowley @ojschwa]

@davidhoang @cursor_ai @Sam_Leatherdale will be there!

[Joshua Crowley @ojschwa]

@brentarcane Hey thanks for coming and thanks for the feedback!

[Joshua Crowley @ojschwa]

@benln @Alphityy @ftnabeelah Happy birthday @ftnabeelah !

[Joshua Crowley @ojschwa]

Same recipe works on your next idea — a CRM, a tracker, a side project.
Curious Kitchen comes to Melbourne for the first time, as part of AI Week. 🗓️ Sat 6 June · Stone & Chalk A couple of seats left 👇 https://t.co/EFi8bqjyrt

[Joshua Crowley @ojschwa]

Building software with an AI agent is really two skills.
Setting up the kitchen — your skills, your context. And cooking with the agent — knowing what it's asking, when to step in, when to let it run.
Most "vibe coding" frustration is half of that missing 🧵🍳

[Joshua Crowley @ojschwa]

We build a meal-planning app together and bake in three frontier AI features:
→ a Claude-powered agent that plans your week
→ an in-app chat assistant with real tools
→ voice control + generated recipe artwork
Prototype each, weave it in, deploy by 5pm.

[Joshua Crowley @ojschwa]

Helped judge the @cursor_ai × ESP32 hackathon today and left genuinely impressed!

Watching people wrestle with jumper cables, breadboards and flaky wiring — then use Cursor to flash, debug and actually learn the ESP32 on the fly — was the best part. Hardware humbles you fast, and the teams pushed through it.

The field was sharp: construction site safety, live parking on council sensor data, touchless feedback kiosks, focus companions that make you do push-ups. Real hardware, shipped in hours.

Big shout out to Andy for the hands-on support all day — the kind that quietly saves demos. And to @ethan_leee9113 & @Shriabhay1 for running such a brilliant day. 🏔️

[Ethan Lee @ethan_leee9113]

Cursor Melbourne Hardware Hack today!

@ethan_leee9113 @ojschwa @ftnabeelah @sunrao @benln

[Ethan Lee @ethan_leee9113]

Cursor Melbourne Hardware Hack today!

@ethan_leee9113 @ojschwa @ftnabeelah @sunrao @benln

[Joshua Crowley @ojschwa]

The @cursor ambassadors are running a global online hackathon to celebrate Composer 2.5 being discounted 90% this weeknd. Australian cursor users can get started from 5:30 till 9:30 PM 24th May AEST with cursor credit up for grabs https://t.co/p4QSAamCMQ you just need to build with Composer 2.5!

[Eyad Kelleh @KellehEyad]

Spent the whole night in Composer 2.Spent the whole night in Composer 2.5, just waking up now and honestly, hard to go back. The pace this thing moves at is something else. Same outputs as Codex and Opus, but way faster. Someone explain @cursor_ai ?

[Joshua Crowley @ojschwa]

@maxbourke @cursor_ai I'll always post here, but you can follow on Luma too -> https://t.co/1gIOHqZ2HN

[Joshua Crowley @ojschwa]

Friends in Brisbane, Cursor Ambassador Nathan Chung is running his first Café @cursor_ai this Saturday! You can come along to cowork in the morning or the arvo, or just pop by for a coffee. This pic is from our last Sydney Café Cursor and it was a massive highlight for our community — recommend getting along and scoring some free Cursor credit and perhaps come Cursor coffee beans while you're at it.

[Joshua Crowley @ojschwa]

@GoodFarmingAdam @cursor_ai Feel free to drop by for a coffee anytime, you only need to book in a time slot if you're keen to cowork there.

[Joshua Crowley @ojschwa]

@MatthesSchramm @cursor_ai We’ve got an event this Sunday https://t.co/lI5AQ74hjT

[Joshua Crowley @ojschwa]

https://t.co/rlVWu9kJiQ

[Joshua Crowley @ojschwa]

Knowing shaders is your unreasonable advantage in UI. Ben has worked super hard on this course, recommended!

[phobon @thenoumenon]

My Three.js + TSL shader course — Fragments — is open for registration until the end of May!

It's the perfect way to learn the techniques that power some of the most incredible shaders out there, and how to build them in code.

[Joshua Crowley @ojschwa]

@Shriabhay1 @ethan_leee9113 @cursor_ai https://t.co/Ouq6QfHmXA

[Joshua Crowley @ojschwa]

I'll be in Melbourne next Sunday with @Shriabhay1 and @ethan_leee9113 for a special @cursor_ai hardware hackathon (thanks for the invite guys!). Best build wins Cursor merch and other prizes! Link in the comments.