tommydevries

I work at the intersection of business, technology, and humanity to liberate businesses and their humans from ordinary.

[Chair-Force-One 47 @ryanottawapoker]

🎶🕺Old Ma X Old Huang X Chuan Jianguo《Coincidance》🕺🎶

✨🎶🕺Elon's Handsome Dancer 🕺🎶✨

🎶🕺The Men were dancing side by side
with the man with the crooked glance.
They turned to face each other; it was just a happenstance

That these two men would meet that day
And do that faithful dance 🕺🎶

🫰✨Performing Guests (AI Personas): Musk, Huang Jen-hsun, Su Zifeng, Trump, Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai, Dario Amodei, Muscle Nan Liang, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, MrBeast, Gary ✨🫰

by Claude最严厉的父亲@garylau_ai

✨Anime Guests: Claude, ChatGPT, Q-version Big Fat Fish. #巧合之舞 #老马 #老黄 #川建国 #AI人格 #AI动漫 #Coincidence #OldMa #OldHuang #ChuanJianguo #AI #AIPersonas #ElonMusk #JensenHuang #SamAltman #Trump #Claude #ChatGPT #Dance #Meme #AIArt #TechMeme #Happenstance #SundarPichai #DarioAmodei #TimCook #MarkZuckerberg #MrBeast #Musk #Huang #AnimeAI #AIAnime #CoincidentalDance #AIDanceOff #TechCEOs #AIParty

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Who did this shit lmao

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Great to see high quality benchmarks with headroom and look at that cost line for Carbon🚀

[Unnati @Unnati_builds24]

Whenever I feel demotivated i rewatch this...

Elon Musk in a living room in 2008, 12 days from bankruptcy, pitching a $109,000 car to people...

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

Anthropic filed to go public yesterday.
My quick takeaways rom their S-1:

The growth and retention numbers are crazy. The gap that needs closing is adoption with plumbers, real estate agents, landlords, insurance brokers and every other small and mid-sized business. Let's go!

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

It's budget season.
AI is about to turn every + into a × or a −.

Somewhere in your industry, someone is tipping their plan 45° from + to ×. Everyone still adding will get squeezed.

It's still early. Which symbol will you choose?

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

Is this AI slop?

It’s clearly AI generated. But it isn’t average. It’s creative, fun, and it lands. The first 15 seconds nail what people want from a personal agent: just fix my washer.

Slop or not?

https://t.co/0iy4XYPQlU

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

this was going to be the lead single from the album

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

this was going to be the lead single from the album

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

Let’s Go.

[JJ Englert @JJEnglert]

Yesterday was so fun! I'm back in San Francisco with @AnthropicAI

This time, we're Training the Trainers!

Tenex has been fortunate enough to partner closely with Anthropic on their Small Business series, and this training was a chance for us to take all of our learnings from the first part of the Small Business tour, and transfer it over to the next crop of trainers.

We're now preparing 100+ new trainers to begin teaching Claude for Small Business in their local communities ❤️

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

As engineering, product, design, DS, etc. melt into a new kind of role, I was reflecting on what roles might look like in the future. For example, when I look at the Claude Code team I see what I think is five archetypes:

1. Prototyper: comes up with brand new ideas; churns out many ideas, most of which don't ship
2. Builder: quickly turns a prototype/idea into production-grade product/infra
3. Sweeper: cleans up the UI, simplifies the code and system, unships, optimizes performance
4. Grower: takes a product that has been built and iterates on it to improve Product-Market Fit
5. Maintainer: owns a mature system to make it secure, reliable, fast, and efficient as it scales

Many people span across 2 roles, and sometimes 3 roles. I also notice that these roles are not really tied to job function -- eg. across Anthropic, some designers match category 1, some 2, some 3; same for engineers, PM, DS.

A healthy team needs a mix of these, depending on the product:

- A product that is new and pre-PMF needs people that are strong at 1+2+3
- A product that is growing and has found PMF needs 2+3+4 and some 5
- A product that has strong PMF needs 3+4+5 and some 2

Maybe product roles of the future will look more like this, and less like the domain-specific roles of today?

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

That's how the follower pack stays only a few months behind the leader.

Cheating off the smart kid's paper, at industrial scale.

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

Anthropic says Alibaba queried Claude 28M times to build a cheaper Claude.

Let the leader spend hundreds of millions building the frontier model, then reverse-engineer it from the answers for a fraction of the cost.

[Peter Steinberger @steipete]

Here’s your monthly reminder that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore.

You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

Is your org suffereing from The Coyote Problem ?https://t.co/W1105UA06J via @LinkedIn

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

Social media is dead.
It's been replaced by algorithmic media — and somehow we missed it.
Same apps. Completely different logic.
From connection → to consumption.
That's why it feels empty.

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

There's a new kind of debt I call 'judgment debt'.

Every time AI does your thinking work, you get output faster but miss the opportunity to develop good judgment.

It compounds silently, for individuals and organizations, and comes due at the worst time.

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

@gregisenberg thnks for sharing

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

@amasad as a designer, i must agree. the creativity emerging from software engineers is insane.

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

@emollick AI UX is just being born.
It’s like industrial design when electricity arrived.

The technology works. The challenge is making it delightful to use.

The models are the engine.
AI UX define the products.

This is an entrepreneur's playground.