vivek

ai engineer • percolating • cs'25 vit'v

[vivek @vivekirl]

@OfficialLoganK don’t matter, it doesn’t work

none of ai studio build works

[Kun Chen @kunchenguid]

i'm strongly against model companies focusing too much on harness, but i would love to hear if anyone has a strong argument for it

my reason against it:

if openai didn't build GPT 5.5, no one else can. this is their core competence

if openai didn't build codex cli and app, we have opencode and t3code. building harness is NOT their core competence

this is not saying products like claude code, codex aren't good - i genuinely think these are top tier products built by really talented people

my point is - the world might be a better place if model companies focus more on their core capability and give us better, faster, safer and cheaper models, rather than competing with the ecosystem in the application layer

what do you think?

[vivek @vivekirl]

@Mike_Scully_ AI

[vivek @vivekirl]

@KirkeMannik01 PLUGIN

[Satyam @vizionaryfocuss]

i've been running 99% of my clients’ 7-figure sales operations inside claude code…

and the results have been INSANE

so i've decided to document the ENTIRE system...

covering how i use it to build CRMs, manage reps, onboard closers, and produce every script and SOP in the operation

here's what's included inside the guide:

> the full CRM built in one afternoon
(airtable schema, custom fields, automated lead scoring, rep performance tracking, pipeline health views that flag stale deals in real time)

> the weekly rep management workflow
replaced 3 hours of manual review with 30 minutes using claude

> the 30-day onboarding system
tasks, checkpoints, knowledge quizzes, roleplay frameworks, objection handling guides - all matched to the exact offer and avatar

> the internal tools built without a developer
pre-call prep tool, follow-up email generator, lead qualification filter that scores before they hit the calendar

> the writing layer nobody else does
scripts, SOPs, training docs, re-engagement sequences - all built from real call recordings and real objections

> why output quality depends entirely on input quality
and the exact prompting approach that makes claude output deployable, not generic

all backed by $10M+ generated across 170+ sales reps placed.

and for 24h, it can be ALL yours for free

like + comment "CLAUDE" and i'll send it over

(must be following + RT for priority access)

[vivek @vivekirl]

@vizionaryfocuss CLAUDE

[vivek @vivekirl]

@AlfieJCarter PLUGIN

[vivek @vivekirl]

@everestchris6 Guide

[vivek @vivekirl]

@OfficialLoganK please explain how do i spend the $250 to upgrade from tier-1 to tier-2 when every api call is returning 503???

[vivek @vivekirl]

rediscovering canvas in @obsdmd and i’m undergoing a personal system renaissance right now

[davinci @leothecurious]

if u're someone who's truly, undeniably competent, people will literally trip over each other to open doors for u. so stop worrying about the doors, and start worrying about ur absolute level of competence.

[Shishir @ShishirShelke1]

Apple keynotes won’t feel the same without Tim Cook’s “Good morning”

[Christina Warren @film_girl]

But seriously, Tim Cook will almost certainly rank as the best non-founder CEO of all time. I can’t think of another business leader who did it like him for such a long run.

[alijah ✰ @m2macmini]

We probably only have one more good morning (WWDC) from Tim Cook left..

[vivek @vivekirl]

there is never going to be another time cook again, just like there isn’t another steve jobs.

[Basic Apple Guy @BasicAppleGuy]

Tim Cook's Community Letter

[Ben Bajarin @BenBajarin]

Tim Cook will deservedly get a great deal of credit for helping Apple scale into one of the most powerful economic machines in the world.

But I think an equally important part of his legacy is cultural. His job was not only to grow Apple after Steve Jobs. It was to preserve as much of Apple’s core identity, values, and operating culture as possible while leading it through a vastly different era.

That may ultimately be the harder achievement, and perhaps his most important one.

[bubble boi @bubbleboi]

Tim Cook is one of the greatest CEOs of all time and the cope from the haters this cycle has been frankly a sight to behold.

When he took over Apple in 2011, it was a $350B consumer hardware company that was selling the iPhone 4 lol. Now it’s a $4T+ free cash flow machine where Services alone is a $100B+ ARR business & AirPods is a bigger standalone business than most Fortune 500 companies. Going from a Phone OEM to a company with monster recurring revenue without breaking the core product is not easy to pull off.

Now people will see this master stroke and then be like oh but they are falling behind in the AI race. The problem with that line of thinking is that people think "AI strategy" means setting $100B on fire to rent H100s and become a low-margin neocloud. They want Apple to just blow all of their money instead of building a real differentiated product. Apple probably looked at the inference market early on and correctly decided not to play a game where the winner gets 20% gross margins and a terrible balance sheet and let everybody else fight it out. Nvidia did the same thing. Neoclouds look more like industrials why the fuck would you destroy your 75% margins for that?

The actual Apple AI strategy is a lot more smarter than haters give credit to. They own the silicon, own the OS, and can run inference on the device better than anyone.

M5 ships with neural accelerators in every GPU core, 153 GB/s unified memory bandwidth and if you believe flash has room to run… much more. Your data never leaves the phone, your AI never goes down because AWS had a bad day, and you don't get billed by the token. No competitor has the silicon plus OS plus distribution to replicate that and I truly believe on device inference for trillion parameter models is coming in next 5 years. The fact that Ternus is succeeding Tim Cook is very bullish for that. They didn't pick a finance guy or a services guy. They picked the head of hardware engineering because the board knows this is the future for Apple.

The people dunking on Cook have never built a free cash flow business in their lives. You actually need to be successful first to understand why a business needs to defend a margin profile, allocate capex against a portfolio, or make a decision that looks slow now but obvious for 10 years. You can't expect the junior varsity players to understand the decisions a pro would make.

[Nikunj Kothari @nikunj]

At some point, usually in your 20s, you'll notice that the people around you get addicted to the FAANG salary. And no matter how hard you try, you can't save them. By all means, do not let it infect your mind. Stay on your path.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

At some point, usually in your 20s, you'll notice that the people around you stop believing in themselves. And no matter how hard you try, you can't save them. By all means, do not let it infect your mind. Stay on your path.

[Akshay Kothari @akothari]

You can use AI to cut costs. You can also use AI to raise your ambition.

Too many people focus on the first. More people should be thinking about the second.