Chris Howard

Founder & CEO of @Softeq, Founding GP & VC @Softeq Ventures, lifelong entrepreneur, startup mentor, family man, geek, and host of the Forging the Future podcast

[Chris Howard @techris]

Aaron keep these coming. I really enjoy your take on the future impact of AI. I believe you’re spot on.

Sure you can do more with AI, but it’s also highly technical stuff. I’ve been in the tech industry for 40+ years and even I’m challenged to keep up and get my arms and head around it.

Exciting times.

[Aaron Levie @levie]

The jobs data coming out continues to suggest the opposite of what a lot of people had thought would happen.

Just take engineering, as the prime example of the area with greatest AI impact (and perceived risk). Most companies now have far more software projects than ever before because of AI, and effectively only engineers are going to be the ones doing that work.

You can get by for a while by being non-technical building software, but eventually someone has to understand what the thing is that got built, has to maintain it, has to fix security issues that come up, upgrade the systems beneath it, and so on. That’s all jobs.

Now apply that to a number of other job functions. AI is going to cause companies to hire more in sales because agents can let them process more leads and do more customer research. AI will cause an explosion of new marketing roles because of how much more efficient it is to launch campaigns and target. The list goes on.

AI is going to have the opposite effect that lots of people thought on jobs.

[Chris Howard @techris]

I'll be at @SensorsConverge next week. Oddly the first time I've been at this show. Anyone else going to be there?

And always great to be in Silicon Valley, I'm happy to meet for coffee, lunch or dinner. Let's connect!

@Softeq #ontheroad

[Chris Howard @techris]

How to get your prompts right!

[Chris Howard @techris]

@jordan_ross_8F OPENCLAW

[Chris Howard @techris]

Looking forward to this session with the one and only Thorsten!

[Softeq @Softeq]

Every engineering leader is being asked the same question:

“Can we move faster with AI?”

The better question is how to do it without sacrificing architecture discipline or security.

Join Chris and Thorsten to find out!
https://t.co/W7hr5cyYRM

[Chris Howard @techris]

@JJEnglert GTM GUIDE

[Chris Howard @techris]

Wow that went by fast! I could swear we were just celebrating our 25th and here we are well on our way to 30. It’s been a wild ride to go from storing code in holes punched in paper to AI helping you write complex code. Every year we are accelerating what’s possible. Thankful to be living and working in the future.

[Softeq @Softeq]

Twenty-nine years of building what’s next. 🎉

Since 1997, we've helped companies turn complex ideas into embedded, AI-driven, and connected products that ship and scale.

Grateful to our Teqies, clients, and partners worldwide. 🌐

[Chris Howard @techris]

@zachcoelius No we are not ready. It’s a massive Tsunami, and even tho we know what it means that the ocean is receding fast, and most everyone on the beach are blissfully unaware, we are standing there admiring the sky…because frankly, there’s nothing we can do to stop it.

[Chris Howard @techris]

@elonmusk @aaronburnett I’ve often wondered why you didn’t have the moon in your mars plan, @elonmusk, to iterate quickly on building in harsh environments. Glad to see this shift as @SpaceX is best positioned to build a US moonbase first.

[Chris Howard @techris]

So happy that @united has been switching planes to @Starlink. The WiFi on United flights has sucked so bad for way too long. Now it just works. Finally!! Thank you @elonmusk and thank you both…you’ve made my magic chair in the sky so much better.

[Chris Howard @techris]

@techNmak I’ve seen so many reposts of this playlist image with no link. Thanks!!

[Chris Howard @techris]

Good read. I’ve always been a huge proponent of constant learning and that won’t change in the AI era. It will just accelerate and your potential will compound if you choose to lean in and embrace it as the high agency individual you are. In the tech world, that’s been a constant need as the technology has always changed fast. With AI the pace has only picked up speed.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

https://t.co/kNfAIZcqin

[Chris Howard @techris]

Interesting thread on how the creator of Claude Code and the Claude team use Claude internally.

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. I wanted to quickly share a few tips for using Claude Code, sourced directly from the Claude Code team. The way the team uses Claude is different than how I use it. Remember: there is no one right way to use Claude Code -- everyones' setup is different. You should experiment to see what works for you!

[Chris Howard @techris]

It was an honor to be one of the first guests on the We Are UH podcast celebrating UH’s upcoming Centennial. My interview starts about 30min in.

https://t.co/IVkwhbZpxM

The University of Houston has had a fundamental impact on my career.

I graduated High School in Florida in the top 2% of my class out of 900 students. But my family didn’t have the ability to send me to college. My Aunt lived in Houston and she suggested I apply to UH and stay with her and her family. And lo and behold UH took a chance on me by giving me a full ride Honors Scholarship in Electrical Engineering. I moved to Houston in 1981.

🏀 It was the days of Phi Slamma Jamma but I digress.

Two years later I got married and couldn’t attend full time, but UH had something called the Co-Op program. I could work while going to college and gain experience. First I worked for the Light Company (now Centerpoint) and then for IBM down at NASA during the Space Shuttle days. It was the beginning of the IBM PC era and was fantastic experience. I was at IBM for 2.5 years learning everything about the PC and teaching myself programming languages from Basic to ADA to C to Assembly, while attending UH at night.

From that foundation I kicked off my entrepreneurial journey, and none of it would have happened without the opportunities that UH gave me.

Now it’s so exciting to see UH lean into entrepreneurship with Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship, TechBridge, and more. Bauer Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship at UH recently ranked No. 1 for the Seventh Consecutive Year.

Thank you UH. Go Coogs!

[Chris Howard @techris]

@ScottAdamsSays RIP Scott. Thanks for the laughs and for the life advice. As you asked, I’m going to pay it forward!

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

Scott Adams Celebration of Life 01/25/26 https://t.co/ApIvbDqI5Q

[Chris Howard @techris]

This is pretty cool. I did this way back when, like 50 years ago, and still have the card.

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[Chris Howard @techris]

Thanks for the laughs and for the insights, Scott. At one point I had a Dilbert full
head rubber mask that used to scare the bejeezus out of people for some reason. 🤣

I have his Dilbert anthology and read his book God’s Debris but somehow missed his others. Going to read them now and pay it forward. RIP.

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

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