Amr Elnahla

Building hyper-personalized fitness coaching for everyone. CEO @ Perzimo. 2x Founder.

[Amr Elnahla @ramadan]

Imagine getting paid to professionally suck the joy out of a room. Just a relentless desire to piss on everyone's parade for clicks. I hope the "fact-check" was worth the vibes you killed. 🙄

[Amr Elnahla @ramadan]

TIL I’ve been stressed by authenticator app timers for absolutely no reason. Frantically typing the code when it's red, thinking I had maybe a 1-second grace period, was totally unnecessary. Surprised to discover the TOTP standard gives a full 30-second grace to account for clock drift!

[Aditya Agarwal @adityaag]

It's a weird time. I am filled with wonder and also a profound sadness.

I spent a lot of time over the weekend writing code with Claude. And it was very clear that we will never ever write code by hand again. It doesn't make any sense to do so.

Something I was very good at is now free and abundant. I am happy...but disoriented.

At the same time, something I spent my early career building (social networks) was being created by lobster-agents. It's all a bit silly...but if you zoom out, it's kind of indistinguishable from humans on the larger internet.

So both the form and function of my early career are now produced by AI.

I am happy but also sad and confused.

If anything, this whole period is showing me what it is like to be human again.

[Amr Elnahla @ramadan]

The number of StackOverflow questions over time is a visual definition of what "disrupted by AI" means. RIP, StackOverflow.

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

In 1995, Sandra Bullock was the first person ever to buy movie theater tickets online, in promotion for her new film THE NET. Wow

[Amr Elnahla @ramadan]

Law firms are panic-padding bills with unrequested "strategy" to protect their fees.

If I order a burger, I’m not paying for a "strategic culinary consultation" just because the chef used a robot to flip the patty. Give me the efficiency discount. 🍔🤖

[FT Data @ftdata]

The AI Shift: If AI is coming for junior lawyers’ jobs, why does their pay keep going up? https://t.co/kKD3edZCeP

[Amr Elnahla @ramadan]

Any Hollywood exec approving a $100M+ budget today is incompetent. Any director demanding it is delusional.

👇 (by NovexStudioAI)

[Amr Elnahla @ramadan]

Look at that beautiful vertical climb in the partisan divide of the U.S. Congress. It proves the most bipartisan thing left in DC is the mutual agreement to prioritize re-election over the actual nation.

[Amr Elnahla @ramadan]

This is 100% canon for future Mars history books.

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

Elon Musk: “I couldn't think of anything more exciting, fun, and inspiring for the future than to have a base on Mars"

At The Mars Society, August 2012

[Amr Elnahla @ramadan]

The change in the shadow cast on the book drives the realism to a 10/10.

[Daria Nevezhyna @darianevezhyna]

The interactive product page is now fully live on @Shopify .
Tested the integration of interactive animation directly within the online store. You can configure the product, and all data stays in sync through to checkout.

🎄 Test it: https://t.co/4aGTIYFuj2

[Amr Elnahla @ramadan]

"AI won't replace jobs," some still insist.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

Completely random… but different 😂

[Amr Elnahla @ramadan]

I moved from Egypt to the US almost 15 years ago, and today was the first time I learned of the term “Bumblefuck, Egypt.”

I’m positive my parents refused to sign the permission slip for that field trip.

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

🚨Besties are BACK!🚨

The core four cover:

-- Bernie's datacenter moratorium, why should the average American care about the AI race?

-- Solutions for fixing AI's negative perception

-- China's major EUV breakthrough, what this means for ASML and the AI race

-- Inflation, unemployment, jobs, could we see "Golden Age" starting in 2026?

-- Are the rest of the Besties moving to Texas!?

(0:00) Bestie intros!

(0:19) Bernie Sanders calls for AI datacenter moratorium, how to solve the negative perception of AI

(17:15) Anti-AI astroturfing: Is the AI sentiment manufactured by special interests?

(32:39) Economy: Unemployment, jobs, inflation, are we primed for a "Golden Age" or not?

(51:44) Dog Corner!

(59:56) China's major AI breakthrough: lithography, impact on the AI race?

(1:19:43) Are the rest of the besties moving to Texas?

[Amr Elnahla @ramadan]

Who do I speak with at @nytimes to get such a fluffy front-page article written about me? I need to share with the world that I wake up at 5:00 AM and that I am a one-shower-a-day kind of man!

https://t.co/kuUnDp4ZL3

[Amr Elnahla @ramadan]

I hope all those documents they are supposed to read are written in in a humanely-readable font.

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

James Cameron's message to theater techs for 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' 🎞️

[Amr Elnahla @ramadan]

@delk As in, a higher volume than the baseline, or lower volume with higher quality?

[Amr Elnahla @ramadan]

Logistics ASMR!

[Damon Chen @damengchen]

🇨🇳 Traveling by train with my daughter. She doesn't like the train meal, so I ordered KFC from the next station directly on the train app.

When the train arrived, someone boarded and delivered the food directly to our seats.

Logistics on another level! 🔥

[Amr Elnahla @ramadan]

End of an era, but not surprising. I switched to Roborock years ago. Cheaper, feature-rich, and way more reliable. The writing was on the wall.

[Bloomberg @business]

iRobot has filed for bankruptcy after reaching a restructuring support agreement that will hand control of the consumer robot maker to Shenzhen PICEA, its main supplier and lender, and Santrum Hong Kong https://t.co/GYNlWARZPI

[Amr Elnahla @ramadan]

Few people on Earth have earned the right to be this cocky.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

James Cameron responds to criticisms about his use of 3D and high frame rate in ‘AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH’

“I think $2.3 billion says you might be wrong on that. Well, that’s the argument from authority. But the argument from artistic is: I happen to like it, and it’s my movie.”

[Amr Elnahla @ramadan]

Corporate cosplay at its finest.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Amr Elnahla @ramadan]

@andruyeung This hits deep. For me, the 'desire for more' came from unfinished business rather than a missed risk. I actually took the shot and missed, but that hunger never went away.