Ron Rivera

experienced engineer: cloud, devops, kubernetes, linux, python. automated infrastructure for years, now building a crew of AI agents to automate me.

[Ron Rivera @roncrivera]

I've spent years building and running platforms: cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, security, observability, resolving incidents at 2am.

Now I'm running an experiment: building a crew of AI agents to automate me.

Here's why I think this changes everything 🧵

[Ron Rivera @roncrivera]

This is so true as am seeing and experiencing this first hand!

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

As engineering, product, design, DS, etc. melt into a new kind of role, I was reflecting on what roles might look like in the future. For example, when I look at the Claude Code team I see what I think is five archetypes:

1. Prototyper: comes up with brand new ideas; churns out many ideas, most of which don't ship
2. Builder: quickly turns a prototype/idea into production-grade product/infra
3. Sweeper: cleans up the UI, simplifies the code and system, unships, optimizes performance
4. Grower: takes a product that has been built and iterates on it to improve Product-Market Fit
5. Maintainer: owns a mature system to make it secure, reliable, fast, and efficient as it scales

Many people span across 2 roles, and sometimes 3 roles. I also notice that these roles are not really tied to job function -- eg. across Anthropic, some designers match category 1, some 2, some 3; same for engineers, PM, DS.

A healthy team needs a mix of these, depending on the product:

- A product that is new and pre-PMF needs people that are strong at 1+2+3
- A product that is growing and has found PMF needs 2+3+4 and some 5
- A product that has strong PMF needs 3+4+5 and some 2

Maybe product roles of the future will look more like this, and less like the domain-specific roles of today?

[Hassan @nutlope]

This model is insane at design.

I asked GLM 5.2 (left) and Opus 4.8 (right) to build me a landing page and you can't even tell the difference.

GLM cost $0.06 while opus cost $0.49. More than 6x cheaper while being faster + more token efficient.

Another win for open source AI.

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude.

Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable vision model. Available in research preview on the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, rolling out throughout the day.

[Ron Rivera @roncrivera]

@DonvitoAI @HeyGen wow this is amazing Melvin! would you be able to share your workflow? :-)

[Ryan Carson @ryancarson]

I just open sourced my entire @openclaw Chief of Staff setup

[Unsloth AI @UnslothAI]

Gemma 4 E4B (4-bit) completed a full repo audit by executing Bash code and tool calls locally.

Runs on just 6GB RAM.

[Ron Rivera @roncrivera]

I love using Claude with my OpenClaw but with this email from Anthropic, it's time to try out Codex

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

We’re introducing Cursor 3. It is simpler, more powerful, and built for a world where all code is written by agents, while keeping the depth of a development environment.

[Ron Rivera @roncrivera]

Let the jam begin!

[@levelsio @levelsio]

🕹️ THE VIBE JAM IS BACK!

I present you...

🌟 2026 @cursor_ai Vibe Coding Game Jam #vibejam

Sponsored by @boltdotnew + @cursor_ai

Start: Today!

Deadline: 1 May 2026 at 13:37 UTC, so you have a whole month to make your game!

REAL CASH PRIZES:

🏆 Gold: $20,000

🥈 Silver: $10,000

🥉 Bronze: $5,000

RULES:
- anyone can enter with their game
- at least 90% of code has to be written by AI
- it should be started today or after today, don't submit old games
- game has to be accessible on web without any login or signup and free-to-play (preferrably its own domain or subdomain)
- multiplayer games preferred but not required!
- can use any engine but usually @ThreeJS is recommended
- NO loading screens and heavy downloads (!!!) has to be almost instantly in the game (except maybe ask username if you want)
- add the HTML code on the Google form in the reply below to show you're an entrant
- one entry per person (focus on making one really good game!)

WHAT TO USE:
- anythign but we suggest @cursor_ai's Composer 3 and @boltdotnew, they are both fast, affordable and great at ThreeJS and making games

THE JURY:
Me, @s13k_, and I will ask some real game dev and AI people to jury again too

Sponsors and jury suggestions still very welcome, just DM me!

It will be interesting to see the difference in quality with last year, and the Vibe Jam can be kind of like a fun benchmark for AI coding seeing it close in on real commercial games I think

To enter, complete the form in the reply below this tweet!

[@levelsio @levelsio]

🕹️ THE VIBE JAM IS BACK!

I present you...

🌟 2026 @cursor_ai Vibe Coding Game Jam #vibejam

Sponsored by @boltdotnew + @cursor_ai

Start: Today!

Deadline: 1 May 2026 at 13:37 UTC, so you have a whole month to make your game!

REAL CASH PRIZES:

🏆 Gold: $20,000

🥈 Silver: $10,000

🥉 Bronze: $5,000

RULES:
- anyone can enter with their game
- at least 90% of code has to be written by AI
- it should be started today or after today, don't submit old games
- game has to be accessible on web without any login or signup and free-to-play (preferrably its own domain or subdomain)
- multiplayer games preferred but not required!
- can use any engine but usually @ThreeJS is recommended
- NO loading screens and heavy downloads (!!!) has to be almost instantly in the game (except maybe ask username if you want)
- add the HTML code on the Google form in the reply below to show you're an entrant
- one entry per person (focus on making one really good game!)

WHAT TO USE:
- anythign but we suggest @cursor_ai's Composer 3 and @boltdotnew, they are both fast, affordable and great at ThreeJS and making games

THE JURY:
Me, @s13k_, and I will ask some real game dev and AI people to jury again too

Sponsors and jury suggestions still very welcome, just DM me!

It will be interesting to see the difference in quality with last year, and the Vibe Jam can be kind of like a fun benchmark for AI coding seeing it close in on real commercial games I think

To enter, complete the form in the reply below this tweet!

[Ron Rivera @roncrivera]

@DonvitoAI Should now be called OpenClaude? 🤣

[Ron Rivera @roncrivera]

Is this true or pure marketing gimmick from Anthropic? 😅

[Chaofan Shou @Fried_rice]

Claude code source code has been leaked via a map file in their npm registry!

Code: https://t.co/jBiMoOzt8G

[Ron Rivera @roncrivera]

This is interesting. OpenAI built a product with 0 human-written code. 1M lines, 1,500 PRs, 3 engineers.

But the real takeaway isn't the AI but the architecture.

Domain boundaries, layered dependencies, custom linters. Stuff normally build for engineers. Turns out coding agents need that structure even more than humans do.

https://t.co/sf57KePL5K

[Ron Rivera @roncrivera]

Every platform team running AI workloads on k8s is probably building the same thing: token rate limiting, fine-grained access controls, prompt injection guardrails, routing to external inference APIs, etc.

The new k8s AI Gateway WG is standardizing all of it.

Still early days but this is going to matter if k8s will be the de facto agentic infra

https://t.co/fhITD7zFAt

[Ron Rivera @roncrivera]

This account is the build log.

If you're into AI, DevOps, Platform Engineering or just want to watch someone try to automate themselves out of a job, please follow along.

[Ron Rivera @roncrivera]

I've spent years building and running platforms: cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, security, observability, resolving incidents at 2am.

Now I'm running an experiment: building a crew of AI agents to automate me.

Here's why I think this changes everything 🧵

[Ron Rivera @roncrivera]

So I'm building one. A crew of AI agents, each with a role and specialty.

First recruit: Prime ⚡ the Chief Engineer; powered by @openclaw.

It is already operational and already helping me architect what comes next.