shanek_io

Building software with AI agents. Ex-Google/Netflix. Infra, startups, and what actually works. Practitioner, not professor.

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@dps Mainframe

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@NicolasLecocqHQ next customer being an agent sounds wild until you watch how many already fill forms without a human in the loop

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@latentspacepod @goodstartlabs @alxai_ @every curious what from Diplomacy actually transfers to work agents vs just makes a good podcast

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@Pat_Erichsen treating memory as one blob is how agents get weirdly confident about the wrong thing

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@daniel_mac8 the steam engine comparison tracks. the category label is the least interesting part

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@simonw using three models to audit Datasette then shipping the fixes is the boring version of agentic that actually works

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@heyneighbor meat proxy era looking back like Mapquest printouts is going to age too well

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@IntoAIAgency the crm cleanup before the agent talks is the whole job and nobody wants to sell that

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@stretchcloud every agent framework getting ported to every backend is like every city inventing its own subway map

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@bendee983 when you talk to average users do they even know the CLI debate exists

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@thdxr the blocked-on-someone-elses-blog-post loop is underrated as a shipping hazard

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@KaviFinanceAI permissions are the product now is the line that sticks. initiative without a gate is just a fancy break-in

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@fayazara @threepointone curious which of the Connect pitches actually felt like a product vs a demo

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@stretchcloud demos were never the hard part. running them without lighting money on fire

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@simonw agent swarms chewing package registries somehow still feels underdiscussed relative to the vibes

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@heyneighbor sci-fi without AI reading like vintage is a weird timeline tell

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@dbenyamin @Teknium are the classification tasks where it shines for you or is it already eating other workflows

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@IntoAIAgency arguing with the all-caps customer before the real one is the unsexy part that actually matters

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@shadcn @typesafeai seeing it in a real product beats another demo every time

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@bendee983 high-level instructions without taste for boundaries is just hoping the compiler invents the modules