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on the journey from vide coding to agentic engineering

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@Rasmic

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@sflorimm The context switching is one issue. The other is that for agents to be effective you need to start very clearly and put a lot of thought into the plan and the outcome you want. It's a good litmus test though if you can't be bothered then either the task isn't important or urgent

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@ankkala Oh my god, that's what I'm supposed to be doing while I use /goal!

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@audiencon From my former like on technical sales. It's a lot easier to persuade them to pick you over a competitor than it is to persuade them to use you over nothing

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@tr4777 What are the best and worst parts of it? Super interested in what life is like managing so many agents as a founder

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@diegocabezas01 Feedback in comments is not great. Shows how quickly people get attached to a good name and logo

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What happened to TOON replacing JSON?

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@trikcode I take a day away as I'm busy with emails and meetings and I've missed three trends that all boom and fizzle before I've even found out they exist

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@thekitze I wish I could but I work in an enterprise where one mistake means I'd be relaxing and living life a little in unemployment 🤣

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@techgirl1908 It's the amount of TUIs where an app would just make life so much simpler than having to remember every key combination

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@thdxr Shows how important good guardrails are. How hard would it be for a group of people to pirate this across stores finding websites with this vulnerability if they were determined enough?

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@pk_iv Why don't they? Completely agree these features are going to essential once we go into a token shortage. I'd also add token thresholds and scripts (to save on tokens even more)

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@Jameswise I love this! There's so much opportunity to make UK and Europe an AI power course and ensuring job roles are easily found is part of it

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If you want to work 7 days a week then you obviously can but the trend for 996 and demanding 6 days a week I'm office is very exclusionary. People have kids they should be able to see, people may have sick relatives to care for. We should be opening up to new talent but restricting further

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

"If you are not working 7 days per week, you are going to lose".

Corgi Insurance is the most intense workplace culture in startups.

- The company works 7 days per week.

- Founder (@nico_laqua) lives and sleeps in the office.

- He built a cafe in the office because there was no local cafe that was open 24/7.

- 2/3 of the first 30 team members have the Corgi logo as a tattoo.

Today I went behind the scenes with Nico, who has used this culture to scale the company to a $2.6BN valuation in just two years.

My condensed notes below:

1. If You Are Not Working 7 Days Per Week, You Are Going to Lose:

Whatever you can get done in 5 days, you'll get more done in 6 and 7. If you are trying to solve the world’s hardest problems, a standard 5-day workweek will not cut it.

2. Work Trials Repel the Mediocre:

Corgi forces candidates into mock work trials over the weekend. If seeing a full office on a Saturday scares them, they don't belong. True intensity acts as a natural filter to attract killers and repel clock-watchers.

3. Lead from the Front Lines

You can’t demand 7-day weeks while sitting on a yacht. Nico sleeps 3–4 hours a night on a mattress inside the office. If you want your troops to bleed, you have to be in the trenches with them.

4. Culture Only Means One Thing: Winning

Forget superficial jargon like "hackers" or "ex-founders." Strip away the corporate fluff. A great startup culture is aggressively optimized around one single word: Winning.

5. Lifespan vs. Victories

Building something world-historic requires radical sacrifice. When asked if he'd rather build a trillion-dollar company and die at 50, or fail and live to 80, the answer was easy. "I would rather measure my lifespan in victories."

6. Reject the Comfort of "Quiet Quitting."

If you are operating in a hyper-growth environment and your days off happen to be Saturday and Sunday every single week, you are quiet quitting. To win, you must deliberately bypass the off-ramps of personal comfort and low volatility.

Corgi isn't for everyone—and that’s exactly the point.

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@noxfield405 In the near future that will be the product we all want as well

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@JoePostingg There's so much pressure to move fast and keep up. The tokenmaxxing boards etc and there's not enough support to maintain good practice

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The speed that AI moves is not good for enterprise too. It's easy to mock their slowness but they also have much higher risks if data is leaked or there's a cyber security incident. Needs to be a lot more tools and support for enterprise to succeed and it needs to come from outside enterprise

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@peterrhague I don't know if I can go back once the cost of lazy prompts becomes more painful

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@alexdanilowicz Do you think most people will have the skills to build their own?

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@Layton_Gott I don't know if they need to be if you don't need them to pursue being general use. With some good routing you could cut a lot of your cost with these open source and cheaper models