Sam Orth

@gauntletai G4 Champion
Building things that think.
AI Engineer | Veteran | Coach

[xian 🌱 @seeincodes]

Over the past week, I’ve learned more about some of the technologies and tools teachers use in their day to day in the US public school system, and how difficult it can be for them to aggregate their data.

I love how easy this is for teachers to use! Anthropic at it again 👀

[Gauntlet AI @gauntletai]

"It works" is not a metric.
If you can't trace it, eval it, and re-test it automatically, you don't have an AI agent. You have a liability that happens to demo well.

[Sam Orth @theesamkos]

Thank you @PSkinnerTech 🫡

[Patrick Skinner - edu/acc @PSkinnerTech]

https://t.co/d4BzL2nXPo

[liemandt @jliemandt]

Adults: Let’s ban AI in schools.

Alpha School student: Let's stress test the AI instead.

The future belongs to kids who learn to push AI to its limits - not hide from it.

[xian 🌱 @seeincodes]

You can now use Devin on your desktop! You can use a Devin Local has context about the project you're working in, files included.

Downloadable now! https://t.co/btK2QRErBr

[Patrick Skinner - edu/acc @PSkinnerTech]

This is a must-read.

Education at scale is the biggest problem we need to solve.

Despite my being an AI Engineer, I wholly agree that universities categorizing AI use as legitimate scholarship, as long as it's footnoted, is wrong.

As @yacineMTB said, "You can outsource your thinking, but you cannot outsource your understanding."

[Lamar @LamarDealMaker]

@ashtilawat @gauntletai Austin is the new SF

[Ash Tilawat @ashtilawat]

Just a reminder...
The team behind TSA is made up of 4 cracked @gauntletai engineers. Their work ethic and tenacity speak for themselves.

[Sam Orth @theesamkos]

Week 7 at @gauntletai

Built ChatBridge — an AI chat platform that runs apps inside the conversation and stays aware of live state.

• tool invocation mid-conversation
• persistent app state across turns
• agent reasoning grounded in real data, not guesses
• sandboxed app execution + validated messaging at the boundary

The challenge wasn’t building features.

It was keeping the system aligned — agent, tools, state, and security — across multiple turns without drifting or breaking.

Grateful for the standard here. Incredible people, real work.
Demo below

https://t.co/kqX0pMbB45

[Ash Tilawat @ashtilawat]

Hear me out @MeekMill, I will fly out to you personally, set everything up, and teach you what you need.

Just let me know when

[Austen Allred @Austen]

MONDAY at Gauntlet AI (in the heart of downtown Austin):

We’re doing a live demo and walkthrough of @KellyClaudeAI: How she was built, how she operates, and the details required for an AI agent to build companies with zero human involvement.

https://t.co/yQF6xMWbQc

[Sam Orth @theesamkos]

24 hours to build a RAG system for legacy code.

Introducing LegacyLens, my Week 3 project for @GauntletAI.

It helps developers understand COBOL and Fortran through natural language — turning decades-old codebases into something you can actually reason about.

Features:
• Syntax-aware chunking
• Streaming answers with citations
• A UI designed to feel like a modern dev tool

Built with FastAPI, React, pgvector, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

Incredibly grateful for everything the Gauntlet team is teaching us.

Amazing what you can build when you're pushed.

Demo:
https://t.co/LpBflbuYhi

#GauntletAI #RAG #AI #LegacyCode #BuildInPublic

[Sam Orth @theesamkos]

Week 2 of @GauntletAI wraps up.
After 14 days of learning from some of the sharpest minds in AI, I'm humbled to share what I've been building.
I built an AI financial assistant on top of @ghostfolio_ , letting you talk to your portfolio in natural language. It understands your holdings, benchmarks your performance, and can execute trades — all from a simple chat interface.

I also extended it with a personal feature: a real estate layer built directly into the platform. For the first time, your property sits alongside your stocks — market value, rental income, and appreciation all in one place.

One honest number: your actual net worth.

Deeply grateful for the push to build something real. The work is just getting started.
#AI #AgentForge #Fintech #OpenSource

Agent demo:
https://t.co/jhYto28Zfn
Real estate feature:
https://t.co/xVEufQ4Ico

[Sam Orth @theesamkos]

Wow @DCWHockey No words. 👏👏 what a time for Dodge County hockey. Proud to be a wildcat

[Jason Feldman @PBFeldy]

The @DCWHockey Wildcats are going to state!
Cats beat the top two seeds — beating No. 7-ranked Northfield 4-2 tonight — to win the Section 1A title for the second time in 6 years!

[Sam Orth @theesamkos]

Week 2 of @GauntletAI and another 24-hour MVP shipped.
This week I built a natural language financial assistant on top of @ghostfolio — ask it anything about your portfolio and it routes to the right tool automatically.

What I used:
— Claude Sonnet 4.6 for the agent brain
— FastAPI on Railway for the backend
— React + Vite on Vercel for the frontend
— Supabase for conversation memory
— A formal eval framework with 15 golden test cases and 27 labeled scenarios

The hardest part wasn't the code. It was building something that actually knows when NOT to answer.
#GauntletAI #BuildInPublic #AI #FinTech

https://t.co/HkiGOpsmVf

[Sam Orth @theesamkos]

Week 1 of @gauntletai is a wrap! I built CollabBoard, a real-time collaborative whiteboard with a voice-controlled AI agent.

Check out the demo!

https://t.co/j9kUrGod6F

This has been the most intense, yet rewarding week of my professional career. Huge thanks to @Austen and the entire Gauntlet team for pushing us to build at the speed of thought.

Tech: @cursor_ai , @anthropic, @langchain, @vercel, @railway

#AI #BuildInPublic #GauntletAI

[Sam Orth @theesamkos]

It's about smart routing, not compression:

- Analyzes task complexity → routes simple tasks to Sonnet (80% cheaper)
- Estimates tokens BEFORE you send → no surprises
- Validates output quality → catches issues before you waste tokens regenerating

The "burn" happens when you use Opus for simple tasks or regenerate bad code. This prevents both.

[Sam Orth @theesamkos]

During this week’s @gauntletai sprint, I noticed a common pattern: Builders were burning through Claude Code tokens faster than expected

To help reduce that friction, I built a small open-source Claude Code token optimizer skill

Repo here 👇
https://t.co/JXJObLJpHJ
#Savetoks