Patrick Carlos

🇨🇦🗽 Software Engineer @rippling. Ex-Amazon.

Always learning.

I’m interested in software development, basketball and eSports.

[Parker Conrad @parkerconrad]

Rippling AI was the most successful launch we've ever done. On the heels of this launch, Rippling's revenue is now growing 78% YoY (at ARR over $1 Billion). And this growth rate has now increased, every quarter, for three straight quarters.

[Patrick Carlos @pccccs]

https://t.co/bqhQgVmRap

[Patrick Carlos @pccccs]

thoughts after week 2 of working at a decacorn:

- incentive structure is much different from big tech; delivering code >> everything else
- all my coworkers are way smarter than me
- ai cannot replace the work that I'm doing (for now)

definitely missed working at a startup!

[Patrick Carlos @pccccs]

The PM behind the twitter integration of @grok deserves endless promotions and raises

[Patrick Carlos @pccccs]

https://t.co/a6XXpuP5XQ

[Patrick Carlos @pccccs]

Launched https://t.co/8lfRyP532A

Built in 20 hours w/ Cline
Plan (80%): Gemini 2.5 Pro via OpenRouter
Act (20%): Sonnet 3.7
React/Next.js/TS/Tailwind
Unified Substack/Medium blog feed via RSS
AWS Amplify for hosting

Insanely effortless, would have taken 100 hours in 2024

[Patrick Carlos @pccccs]

🤯
https://t.co/w7RvOojps9

[Patrick Carlos @pccccs]

Feb 2025:
- Reduced phone screen time by 50% by using app limits
- 28 days of daily journaling (10K words)
- 7-8 hrs of sleep every day; in bed by 11PM and awake by 730AM at the latest
- 10-12 hrs of work per day, w/ at least half being deep work
- 2-3 HIIT sessions per wk

WAGMI

[Patrick Carlos @pccccs]

Perplexity's new voice mode feels ultra responsive even when performing web search, amazing work as usual @perplexity_ai @AravSrinivas

[xAI @xai]

https://t.co/hEfQ31gANQ

[Trajan Hammonds @trajan317]

Tonight I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with Trump’s executive orders on DEI in the federal government. I’m going to answer some FAQs and share some thoughts about this ordeal in this thread 1/n

[Patrick Carlos @pccccs]

@AravSrinivas is my favorite person in AI right now with what he’s doing with @perplexity_ai

I use it on a daily basis to learn across all sorts of topics and it just *works*

R1 has been amazing, impressed with how quickly they were able to support it.

https://t.co/vrPQUSAj0k

[Patrick Carlos @pccccs]

2024 was a banger

Every year I feel like I’m reaching new heights

2025 is gonna be even better

[Patrick Carlos @pccccs]

Can’t stop thinking about taking my career to the next level in 2024! So excited. WAGMI!!!

[Patrick Carlos @pccccs]

my goat https://t.co/9ESWPkqMI0

[LINKIN PARK @linkinpark]

“Heavy Is The Crown,” the @leagueoflegends #Worlds2024 anthem is out now. https://t.co/b3ZMZFlgGo

[Patrick Carlos @pccccs]

Learnings / reminders:

Do first then think second. Never spend too much time thinking.

Importance of spaced repetition

Deliberately find weaknesses and focus on them even if it’s uncomfortable

Reading > writing (though it’s important to write)

Sleep 8 hours a day

[Patrick Carlos @pccccs]

Turned 28 a few days ago. Every year I manage to surprise myself looking back at what I’ve been able to accomplish through hard work and importantly, the support of my friends and family. It’s incredible how much progress one can make with small, but deliberate efforts everyday

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Meet our AI-powered robot that’s ready to play table tennis. 🤖🏓

It’s the first agent to achieve amateur human level performance in this sport. Here’s how it works. 🧵

[Csaba Kissi @csaba_kissi]

Linux commands - basics

[Min Choi @minchoi]

Less than 24 hours ago, Anthropic dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

And people are coming up with wild use cases that is taking over GPT-4o with the new Artifacts feature.

10 examples: