Rachael Craig

I build and scale expert systems that drive better decisioning and coordination. Enterprise Executive. Exited AI Founder/CEO. Angel. Enthusiast. Views are mine.

[Rachael Craig @RPCraig]

IDK if this is your experience but Claude dunks on me regularly for not joining Anthropic.

[Rachael Craig @RPCraig]

Other than joy, or the opportunity to study first-hand the psychology or intentions of the author, is there a point to reading books anymore?

"Profile the author and provide me their main differentiated ideas, top praise and criticism, most cited papers, h-index, cite sources and provide specific quotes" or like...

I rarely open my Kindle anymore.

[Rachael Craig @RPCraig]

Human attention is the scarce resource.

[Rachael Craig @RPCraig]

"Do any of us feel like we have less to do these days despite the convenience of Excel, email or Zoom?"

[Rachael Craig @RPCraig]

@sameersismail Live long, @sameersismail !

[Rachael Craig @RPCraig]

Last year I made friends with some of the worlds top biohackers and longevity athletes.

Four things they all prioritize are:

1. Sleep
2. Whole Foods
3. Exercise
4. Friends

Not peptides, not exotic therapies; they don't even all use supplements.

You can do it.

[Rachael Craig @RPCraig]

@eriktorenberg @sailaunderscore wtf

[Rachael Craig @RPCraig]

The winners will be the ones who develop a world-class digital nervous system so that information can easily flow through their companies for maximum and constant learning. - Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought (1999)

[Kenton Varda @KentonVarda]

My wife @qiqing wrote a collection of poetry that is designed to be read by AI.

To be clear, it is NOT written by AI. Jade wrote everything herself.

But it contains puzzles that very few humans have enough context to figure out, but most frontier models do.

[Rachael Craig @RPCraig]

I’m sick of LLM copy.

What’s a good, contemporary, non-fiction read?

[Charlie Petty @incredutility]

Unemployment rate for young people:

[Rachael Craig @RPCraig]

Two AI mistakes causing workforce burnout and organizational dysfunction:

1. Confusing partial automation with full automation
2. Expecting that people are limited by hours in a day, rather than human limits in productive decisioning, ability to hold and switch context

[Rachael Craig @RPCraig]

Yes. 👇

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

I'm lucky enough to have a great doctor and access to excellent Bay Area medical care. I've taken lots of standard screening tests over the years and have tried lots of "health tech" devices and tools.

With all this said, by far the most useful preventative medical advice that I've ever received has come from unleashing coding agents on my genome, having them investigate my specific mutations, and having them recommend specific follow-on tests and treatments.

Population averages are population averages, but we ourselves are not averages. For example, it turns out that I probably have a 30x(!) higher-than-average predisposition to melanoma. Fortunately, there are both specific supplements that help counteract the particular mutations I have, and of course I can significantly dial up my screening frequency. So, this is very useful to know.

I don't know exactly how much the analysis cost, but probably less than $100. Sequencing my genome cost a few hundred dollars.

(One often sees papers and articles claiming that models aren't very good at medical reasoning. These analyses are usually based on employing several-year-old models, which is a kind of ludicrous malpractice. It is true that you still have to carefully monitor the agents' reasoning, and they do on occasion jump to conclusions or skip steps, requiring some nudging and re-steering. But, overall, they are almost literally infinitely better for this kind of work than what one can otherwise obtain today.)

There are still lots of questions about how this will diffuse and get adopted, but it seems very clear that medical practice is about to improve enormously. Exciting times!

[Rachael Craig @RPCraig]

Execution is still Type 2 fun, friends.

[Nikunj Kothari @nikunj]

Every time I see a tweet saying “I can vibe code this in a weekend” - I think of the slack notification system..

It takes time, persistence and effort to get the details right.

Sure, a lot of simple workflows will get vibe coded away. And maybe you can put this in Claude Code and get the code right in one shot.

But quality, depth and great systems will still have value and take time. You can’t vibe code lessons.

Now and forever.

[Village Global @villageglobal]

"You can vibe code a CRM in a weekend. Congratulations. You just created a contact manager — the 1987 version of ACT."

@camplejohn, Founder & CEO of Coffee, on why the death of SaaS is overhyped:

"It's like an iceberg. The hard part is all the data and architecture underneath. You're not doing that in a weekend."

"Put all that effort in and you're back to what Google and Goldman Sachs did building their own software. You're in maintenance mode. Something breaks."

"The death of SaaS is overhyped. If you're not a CRM company, why build a CRM? Do what makes your beer taste better."

"Anybody can build anything. But we always underestimate the complexity behind it."

Recall Sessions — Village Global Podcast

[Rachael Craig @RPCraig]

Discipline in execution is even more important in a world where generation is cheap, fast and easy.

[Rachael Craig @RPCraig]

Betting on a technology is not the same as betting on a specific implementation of that technology.

[Rachael Craig @RPCraig]

Just because you can automate part of a role and funnel more information and decisioning at yourself doesn't mean you should. Humans have finite information processing and decision capacity. Elevate your specialists in their span of context instead.

[Rachael Craig @RPCraig]

@JaredSleeper Noting, as far as I know, Gassner is still a fully invested, highly disciplined, top tier Founder-CEO.

[Rachael Craig @RPCraig]

@dojideon @CsabaSzepesvari @partycityhq I died.