Stuart Cerne

Serial Founder, now building Meetball in public - a social network to help people connect IRL.

[0xMarioNawfal @RoundtableSpace]

Ask Claude to map your entire app's architecture into a single HTML page and JSON file.

The HTML is for you. The JSON is for the next agent working on a new feature.

Your codebase now explains itself.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

The biggest alpha leak of 2026 is that you can tokenmax $10k/mo with OpenClaw/Hermes + GBrain and get the AI that everyone will have in 2028 for $100/mo, but you can get it now, and that is the biggest single unlock you can have vs your competition

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

More AI agent observations below (I keep adding to the list):

1. Hermes agents write to their own memory after every task. Which means starting today versus starting in 6 months is an unfair advantage for you.

2. We're maybe 12 months from an agent that can watch you work for a week and then do your job without any instructions. The screen recording plus agent memory plus local model combination makes this possible right now

3. The real reason local models matter for founders: you can ship a product where the AI runs entirely on the customer's device and you never touch their data. Zero privacy concerns. Zero server costs. Zero compliance headaches.

That changes which industries you can sell to overnight. Healthcare, legal, finance, all the regulated verticals that won't send data to the cloud just opened up.

4. Every company needs to be rebuilt as a "second brain" before agents can be useful. That means every process, every decision, every piece of institutional knowledge has to exist in a format an agent can read. Most companies have none of this.

5. Agent costs are the new headcount. Won't be crazy for companies to spend 50%+ of their total headcount cost on tokens.

6. Agents are accidentally creating internal competition at companies. The marketing agent and the sales agent are optimizing for different metrics and working against each other without anyone realizing it. It took humans decades to develop cross-functional alignment. Nobody thought about it for agents.

7. The YAML config file is becoming the new org chart. Who reports to who, what permissions they have, what tools they access, all defined in a config file. The company's structure is literally a file you can version control, fork, and deploy. That's new.

8. The first agents that can smell a scam are going to be worth billions. Right now agents will happily wire money to a fake invoice because it matched the format. The trust layer is completely missing.

9. We're about to find out that most "expertise" was actually just memory. Knowing the tax code. Knowing the case law. Knowing which supplier charges what. When an agent holds all of that in context, the expert's value shifts from "I know things" to "I know which things matter." Much smaller group of people.

10. We're all running the same models. The differentiation is in what you feed them. Two founders with the same agent, same model, same tools will get wildly different results based purely on the quality of their knowledge base. Garbage context in, garbage output out. Forever.

11. The most underbuilt category in AI right now: agents for old people. 70 million boomers who need help with medical forms, insurance claims, and appointment scheduling.

12. Agent latency is the new page load speed. If your agent takes 45 seconds to respond, your customer already switched to one that takes

13. Skills files are the new apps. A SKILL.md that tells an agent how to do one thing well is more valuable than a SaaS subscription that does the same thing behind a login screen.

14. AI hardware... how do you create devices that are good businesses that people want? It'll be a $30 dongle you plug into existing dumb devices to give them an agent brain. Smart toaster doesn't need to be built from scratch. It needs a $30 brain attached to a $15 toaster.

15. Your agent can read faster than you can think. The bottleneck in every agent workflow is now the human approval step. We're the slow part. That's a strange thing to sit with.

16. Agents made the 80/20 rule violent. The 20% of work that matters is now the only work humans do. The 80% just disappeared. Entire job descriptions were hiding inside that 80%.

17. The thing I keep coming back to: the best businesses right now are being built by people who are just slightly ahead of their customers. Not 10 years ahead. 6 months ahead. That's the sweet spot. Far enough to lead. Close enough to be understood.

[Andrew Yeung @andruyeung]

Anthropic is paying up to $400,000 a year for an events role.

They're looking for someone to own the execution of brand experiences that translate Anthropic's values into physical moments.

This person will produce everything from intimate thought-leadership gatherings to large-scale industry activations.

The top AI research lab in the world recognizes that to cross the chasm and reach everyday consumers, they need to lean into hospitality. They need to create visceral, unforgettable IRL experiences that make complex technology feel accessible and human.

They understand that digital channels are getting increasingly saturated. Every feed is flooded with AI content... every inbox is overflowing.

The massive opportunity now is offline, analog, in-person.

The companies that win in the next decade won't just have the best product but the most emotional in-person presence and the most compelling storytelling.

If you're in events, experiential marketing, or brand activations, this is your moment. The biggest tech companies in the world are betting on you.

[Stuart Cerne @stuartcerne]

Social networks are broken. You can help: sign the Rebuild Letter to support better platforms for people, not algorithms 👉 https://t.co/NcwJ68jLS3

#RebuildSocialPlatforms #Meetball #ProSocialApps #SocialNetwork

[Stuart Cerne @stuartcerne]

I just posted this on Meetball.
It’s a place where people around you find each other by sharing what they care about.
If you know someone who could help, feel free to pass it on.
And if you’d like to ask for something that matters to you, you’re welcome to try it too.

https://t.co/cpi1eEYq7n

[Stuart Cerne @stuartcerne]

@himeetball isn’t anti-social media.
It’s anti-disembodied interaction.

The magic moment isn’t the post.
It’s the coffee.
The walk.
The whiteboard.
The “oh wow, you too?”

That’s what we want to get back to. The human side of socials.

[Stuart Cerne @stuartcerne]

We are in a new era of apps, where language (which reflects values) is more important than least friction mindless user direction (assuming, of course, that all functions are working properly). Cit - @Samvel_Atayan

[Stuart Cerne @stuartcerne]

Make a wish for someone else and tag them…

never know who may say “I Can Help”

[Stuart Cerne @stuartcerne]

@chrislevan24 Together

[Samuel_Maré @Samvel_Atayan]

It's been a while since the last post in X. We went through an amazing journey with @Meetballsocial team. That was sick! Booth at @unicornfactoryl at @WebSummit, lots of cool connections. @scrutautomation party was fun way to meet great people from Denver, US. I can continue this list...

But the most important thing is that @Meetballsocial is live! We have the product, we have a team, we have users.

What meetball does? Simple, but very important thing. Connect people with purpose. If you are a solo founder who wants to find people who are ready to help you, you definitely should check it out!

...and in the meantime, we begin to explore new horizons while the dust has not yet settled

[Stuart Cerne @stuartcerne]

Build in public

[Stuart Cerne @stuartcerne]

@dhh When you meet one you know you met one!

[Stuart Cerne @stuartcerne]

Hey @samhenrigold working on a project so crazy we had Netflix producers interested in making a movie out of the story. It’s a simple app to help people make meaningful connections. An anti social media social network, built as an open startup that anyone can join. we need some help. Take a look at this so you get a sense of the project and if you’re interested, let’s chat: https://t.co/mZhVQcMvOv

[Naval @naval]

The purest reason to make something is not to make money and not even to make the thing.

It’s to have the experience of making the thing - and no one can take that from you.

[Stuart Cerne @stuartcerne]

the founder's mindset’s all aboot smashin’ short an’ long-term goals, knowing fine well the glory’s theirs an’ the team’s. It’s a shared triumph, but deep down, the founder couldn’t care less for the spotlight. Just the outcome!

[Stuart Cerne @stuartcerne]

Whats the best "How We Work" for a Dev team coming together? looking for a quick shortcut / handbook we adopt and edit as we need to adapt changes. Stack agnostic, small team working async.

Rituals etc...

[Stuart Cerne @stuartcerne]

@dhh I'm building a startup. If you have a phone call with me I'll fly over and do your laundry for a week.

[Stuart Cerne @stuartcerne]

I’m building a startup where anyone can join, bunch of devs butting heads figuring out best way to set up collab. What’s your advice for a “how we work” framework we can copy paste? Stack agnostic, more the collab and rituals to build great apps. Is there a “how we work”
For bitchat, how ideas become amazing products? Would love that