Shane Buchan

Building | prev. Ramp

[Shane Buchan @shanebuchan]

After an amazing stint at Ramp, it's time for me to build something of my own!

Looking for design partners to help shape what this becomes. Shoot me a DM or check out my founder page to see what I'm envisioning👇

https://t.co/r01659AiOM

[Shane Buchan @shanebuchan]

I wanted to get some time in with Fable 5 before they switch it to be only available via usage credits. I gotta say I'm quite impressed. It certainly wasn't as simple as prompting it with "Make 3d pizza box website" and then coming back in a couple hours. Nevertheless, not bad for 1 day of work!

[Shane Buchan @shanebuchan]

I couldn't agree more. The people who understand the work best are almost never the ones allowed to change the tools they depend on, so the best ideas sit one ticket and one sprint away from ever happening.

Looking forward to the day when every person's potential is fully unlocked with the right tooling and they can finally create the solutions they've always wanted.

[Seb Goddijn @sebgoddijn]

I'm a big believer that the people doing the work day to day are best positioned to build custom solutions that can make them even more effective.

Products that enable this for the masses will spread like wildfire.

[Shane Buchan @shanebuchan]

@taylor_jrj2012 😉

[Shane Buchan @shanebuchan]

After an amazing stint at Ramp, it's time for me to build something of my own!

Looking for design partners to help shape what this becomes. Shoot me a DM or check out my founder page to see what I'm envisioning👇

https://t.co/r01659AiOM

[Shane Buchan @shanebuchan]

@KCG3D I'd love to get your input! Mind filling out the design partner form on this page?:

https://t.co/r01659AiOM

[Shane Buchan @shanebuchan]

What if your background agents could be foreground agents?

I recently shipped a new version of our "Projects" feature in Glass, @tryramp's internal AI productivity tool, that maintains per-project memory across chat sessions.

This allows each chat session to have full awareness of what all other sessions, past or present, are doing in a project.

Our users no longer have to worry about running out of context. They can seamlessly stop one session and spin up another with the prompt "Continue" and the agent will know exactly what to do.

We're also now able to explore fun ideas like loading every background agent from a parent session as their own individual chat session within a single view so you can see every tool call a child session makes or interrupt/manage them independently.

Check out the video to see it in action👇

[Shane Buchan @shanebuchan]

@otc_slaps @tryramp All in Glass 😁

[Shane Buchan @shanebuchan]

We held a company-wide AI hackathon at @tryramp and got to put Glass, our internal AI productivity app, to the test.

650 participants. 100 AI mentors. 305 submissions. 7 finalists. 1 Glass.

It was a blast getting to see so many non-engineers become builders and bring their ideas to life as full featured internal apps or robust, shareable skills.

[Shane Buchan @shanebuchan]

I couldn’t agree more. There’s so many problems to solve out there that engineers like myself would never even be able to think up let alone find solutions for.

It makes perfect sense to give folks in Sales, CX, Marketing, etc. the tooling to solve the problems they run into each day on their own. No one will understand their problem better than they will.

[Shane Buchan @shanebuchan]

@ironcarbs @getopenwork It was huge, tbh. Allowing folks to conveniently use Okta SSO for every MCP, eliminated a pretty big UX frustration and made it that much easier for folks to adopt Glass internally.

[Shane Buchan @shanebuchan]

https://t.co/qO47mqgJXi

[Shane Buchan @shanebuchan]

Last week @sebgoddijn shared Glass, Ramp's internal AI productivity tool, with the world. Nearly a million views later, everyone's asking the same thing: how did you actually build this?

Read the full story here:
https://t.co/gzO1X4V2uN

The short of it: we built an app that builds itself

A small team of us pretty much vibe coded the entire thing in about a month. The trick was teaching Glass how to improve its own codebase.

Turns out if you discipline your AI agents well enough, they grow up to be high-functioning, self-sufficient adults in no time.

[Shane Buchan @shanebuchan]

https://t.co/qO47mqgJXi