Tom Babb

Rock Chalk | ATX | I do marketing for @gauntletai 🛡️

[Tom Babb @TBabb02]

Dropped an album. Give it a listen.

https://t.co/7WYkqr6D2I

[Gauntlet AI @gauntletai]

Hiring managers aren't filtering for who can use AI tools. They're filtering for who's still in control of the codebase after AI writes the code.

Your workflow. Your evals. Your ability to improve the system — not just prompt it.

@ashtilawat (CTO, Gauntlet AI) breaks it down.

Free AI engineering classes every Wednesday → https://t.co/igwpZAe3uL

[Tom Babb @TBabb02]

@Austen Data center uses the same amount as a golf course

[Tom Babb @TBabb02]

@HangGaoLabs I'm a huge fan of what you're doing.

[Ali Breland @alibreland]

If Austin wants to be a tier 1, tech city it needs to get serious and stop using this water for frivolous recreation and start using it for data centers. If you don’t understand this, you’re going to get left behind

[Virginia Times @newsbreaknow]

Secret Service says a suspect was killed and a bystander wounded after gunfire near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. Officials said no officers were injured and White House operations were not disrupted. https://t.co/PR1yntbYRu #SecretService #WhiteHouse #WashingtonDC

[Ash Tilawat @ashtilawat]

Every name highlighted in this screenshot is someone whose job is to make a @gauntletai engineer the best.

Lectures. Office hours. Rounds. Hiring partner projects. Mock interviews. All in one day.

When @Austen and I ran the first cohort, it was the two of us running around the room, looking over shoulders and grading assignments ourselves.

Today there's a full team across soft skills, interview prep, system design, and AI technical depth dedicated to making each cohort better than the last.

We're headed toward being the best immersive experience in the world for an engineer upskilling into AI, bar none. Plus, it is completely free for you.

The part that sometimes gets lost: Gauntlet isn't a curriculum you consume. It's an environment.

- Live lectures on things like spec-driven development.
- Office hours over Google Meet when you're stuck.
- Rounds where engineers and alumni walk the floor.
- Project-driven work that pushes the engineer forward.

An ecosystem where you can actually thrive surrounded by people completely immersed in AI and as excited about what's coming as you are.

That's what we're building.

[Tom Babb @TBabb02]

Sorry Jon.

[Tom Babb @TBabb02]

I like music. @Spotify’s disco ball logo inspired me to make a cinematic product-shot experiment using ai tools.

My friend Jon Lucas told me not to tell anyone how I make these videos. Sorry Jon.

Thread explaining everything🧵
(tbh I learned everything from @PJaccetturo)

[Tom Babb @TBabb02]

10/ Also wanted to give credit to @PJaccetturo for inspiring a lot of this workflow thinking.

He is ultimately the reason why I decided to share this as he is very into building in public and giving away all of his secrets.

I originally found his work through @businessbarista + @tenex_labs’s sessions and learned a ton from watching how he approaches AI creative workflows.

If you've made it this far and replied to this, I'll send you the 45-minute video of Alex and PJ walking through PJ's process to make two-minute commercials using just AI.

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Gauntlet crew in NYC for next 24 hours

[Tom Babb @TBabb02]

@Austen We wake up every morning at 4 AM to go for a run