Phil Strong

Building Jacked - AI strength coach for iPhone. Day job: Software Dev Manager @ AWS DevTools | Opinions are my own

[Phil Strong @philstrong]

Just shipped Jacked.

It's an AI strength coach for iPhone. Type "10 x 140" between sets — it logs the rep, compares to your last session, tells you what to do

Most fitness apps log your workouts. This one actually coaches them.

Free 7-day trial: https://t.co/ecaGE83hLc

[Phil Strong @philstrong]

@GergelyOrosz As an Amazon engineer. I can confirm. Customer obsession is the way

[Phil Strong @philstrong]

@jessfraz Maybe I give too much credit but I feel like Anthropic sees something we don't here. 1M ARR 😕
Did they patent something around agent identity or a new protocol?
Else this is a small acquihire and a major defensive move just before IPO to block competitors from this tech?

[Clare Liguori @clare_liguori]

The last couple weeks were busy for the Kiro team, with 35 updates shipped in the changelog. The two big ones I'm most excited about:

1) Kiro Web preview
- Autonomous agent mode
- Cloud sandboxes
- Direct integration with GitHub

2) New ways to practice spec-driven development
- New Quick Plan mode
- New spec analysis that catches logical inconsistencies, ambiguities, and conflicting constraints

Catch up at https://t.co/Do2FKYwa8W

[Phil Strong @philstrong]

@Zoom Full screen on share should be an option (I would uncheck). Focus should just be removed. Happy to provide more concrete examples or jump on a call

[Phil Strong @philstrong]

@Zoom frustrates me 🙉 daily. Don't focus my keyboard/mouse on incoming calls or full screen when someone shares theirs. As I type this, Zoom forced me to click back to X because a screen was shared. How is this not your #1 requested fix? This is reverse productivity.

[Phil Strong @philstrong]

@sairahul1 Im gonna need $500 for tokens and redbull

[Phil Strong @philstrong]

@karthikponna19 Russian roulette: Context window at 83%

[Phil Strong @philstrong]

Your AI gym coach that remembers every set and pushes you to make the most of your workouts. https://t.co/xK5xpm2Qwg

[Phil Strong @philstrong]

@mitchellh This sort of thing corrects itself

[Phil Strong @philstrong]

@Ladson_official Precisely what I mean by context 👍

[Phil Strong @philstrong]

More convinced than ever that team level context is key to collaborative AI engineering in 2026. Ops/Business/Team/Code/Architecure context for humans and agents.

[Phil Strong @philstrong]

@clairevo @levie Sadly this is true. Not everyone needs to trailblaze the others will follow.

[Phil Strong @philstrong]

@mcuban @levie School system needs a full reboot. Incentive system is completely broken. Having said that AI could help the best teachers reach more students.

[Phil Strong @philstrong]

https://t.co/wBzlgRoNNu

[Phil Strong @philstrong]

@Mappletons I loved your talk https://t.co/wBzlgRoNNu collaborative AI engineering. Is the Ace team hiring? Asking for a friend :)

[Clare Liguori @clare_liguori]

Ahh I have been so excited about the new AWS Agent Toolkit and it's finally here and I can talk about it!

🚀 40+ skills
🚀 3 agent plugins
🚀 Remote MCP server that agents can use to call all 15,000+ AWS APIs + run scripts, search docs, retrieve skills

https://t.co/11cSOzX1Kc

[Phil Strong @philstrong]

If you're using @claudeai Code (CLI) and not using https://t.co/NtKijoYnrx try it. /tui fullscreen isn't full screen but it does take over your terminal for improved UX

[Phil Strong @philstrong]

Been using https://t.co/NtKijoYnrx with cmux/ghostty and I'm a fan. type /tui fullscreen to switch and /tui default to switch back to standard. @claudeai

[Phil Strong @philstrong]

The "MCP is dead, use SDKs + CLIs" take is right for full coding agents.

But heard a reframe recently that clicked: MCP is a scope-down.

An agent with bash and an SDK can do anything. An agent with an MCP server can only do what you exposed.

[Phil Strong @philstrong]

Stack: React Native, AWS Bedrock (Claude Haiku 4.5).
Built solo over ~60 days, 1000 commits. Happy to answer questions.

[Phil Strong @philstrong]

Just shipped Jacked.

It's an AI strength coach for iPhone. Type "10 x 140" between sets — it logs the rep, compares to your last session, tells you what to do

Most fitness apps log your workouts. This one actually coaches them.

Free 7-day trial: https://t.co/ecaGE83hLc