Shaun Chander

swe, currently engineering in 📍 NYC

real talk about code, product, and growth.

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[Shaun Chander @shaunchander]

Been slowly turning #kitty into a fullstack, agentic first IDE

Should I drop my plugins (kittens) 👀

[Shaun Chander @shaunchander]

Started building my own tools for software engineering

Never had more fun than now in my career :)

[Shaun Chander @shaunchander]

Writing code is getting cheaper. Reviewing it is getting more expensive.

The new 10x engineer is the one who reviews fastest and most accurately.

@linear's new diff feature is proof we're headed there.

My take: https://t.co/4JI6aamTea

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@yahyavision https://t.co/Vmn3CuNPFu

[Shaun Chander @shaunchander]

Building a second brain by @fortelabs has been one of the most insightful reads for me in 2026. Inspired me to start tooling with AI for personal knowledge management.

It even got me back into writing on my website again 🫢
https://t.co/uRu86nC6Wd

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@simonecanciello I got you, checkout https://t.co/PKDl3XO6W5

[Shaun Chander @shaunchander]

hosted our fourth cowork with strangers sesh last week!

so far meeting new people, seeing what they're up to, and sharing tidbits from our industry has been amazing.

everyone here works in tech, either as career SWEs or technical founders

📍 only in NYC

[Shaun Chander @shaunchander]

What are some good to know hacks for marketing mobile apps?

[Shaun Chander @shaunchander]

Just published my article on three engineering principles every vibe coder should know!
https://t.co/jtmyToxhdP

[Shaun Chander @shaunchander]

@davidhdev at this point you wanna dust off useReducer 😬

[Shaun Chander @shaunchander]

@dan_tehrani @Medium I feel conviction is not talked about enough in the startup space! It's actively something I work on today as well.

[Shaun Chander @shaunchander]

I wrote my first article on @Medium

It's about the company I started at 19, in college, and why it didn't work out in the end :(

In it I detail mistakes and lessons learned as a first time founder.

https://t.co/fdllgL3A89

Check it out if you're building or into startups

[Shaun Chander @shaunchander]

Our Thursday sesh went great!

We had people in startups/early hires show up and jam on their projects and work!

Some were locked in, others took calls, there was even a mini-demo and talk about AI

I'm hosting again this Tuesday, are you in?

https://t.co/9UEhso815j

[Shaun Chander @shaunchander]

update, ppl showed up

[Shaun Chander @shaunchander]

if you're in NYC and want to social cowork, checkout https://t.co/y4Iuxj31bp

[Shaun Chander @shaunchander]

update, ppl showed up

[Shaun Chander @shaunchander]

cold brew + social co-working 👀

[Shaun Chander @shaunchander]

cold brew + social co-working 👀

[Shaun Chander @shaunchander]

@TheAnatomyOfBiz Literally I think their only objective was an ego boost 🤷‍♂️

[Shaun Chander @shaunchander]

I go to a lot of networking events in the city and met probably the worst person ever, someone who just:

- gloats about their achievements
- tries to one up you in every conceivable way
- doesn't offer value, just talks about and compares themselves to you

don't be this guy 🙏

[Shaun Chander @shaunchander]

@nbbaier @mastra @calcsam it's able to read profiles of people from a data source and organize/pair them into groups based off their personalities (all inferred from within the agent)

[Shaun Chander @shaunchander]

@mastra makes building agents scarily easily.

Like I'm a frontend-leaning product engineer and I built my own tool calling agent over the weekend

@calcsam's ebook on building AI agents is also very helpful.

still don't know if I'd call myself an AI engineer just yet 😅

[Shaun Chander @shaunchander]

We just launched A/B for https://t.co/dPW31M9I8e

What did we A/B?

You tell us 🤭