Adam Kerr

Building companies that are actually fun to run. Sold one, now focused on practical local AI for small companies. Writing about living & building on your terms.

[Adam Kerr @zero_to_seed]

The number of employers that want to use AI to automate their micromanagement is concerning.

Surveillance vibes.

To those thinking of doing this, I get it. You have that one employee that doesn't communicate, doesn't give updates and you never know what they are doing.

AI isn't the solution. Hiring better people, giving them the proper incentives and tools to do the job, and trusting your people is how you build a good company culture.

Don't ruin the energy of a team over a bad hire. Own that, reconcile it, and move on.

[Adam Kerr @zero_to_seed]

It's a lot of fun to see what you can do locally. I do a mix of local and cloud, with composer 2.5 being my go to for cloud. Occasionally I benefit from Codex 5.3, GPT 5.5 or the latest Opus for sticky problems. It requires more work to build the harness that works as well as one of the cloud providers but it's doable and worth it, especially for autonomous agents that eat a lot of tokens.

[Adam Kerr @zero_to_seed]

@tdinh_me Even with AI, rewrite is like heart surgery. It's a lot of fun when you enjoy clean organized code - just make sure it drives some business value for you too!

[Adam Kerr @zero_to_seed]

@levie @ollama Exciting times. I hope the intelligence density keeps improving on open weight models so it’s affordable for as many people as possible. Intelligence should be for everyone.

[Adam Kerr @zero_to_seed]

@defilan It feels more accessible every day. What’s your go to model?

[Adam Kerr @zero_to_seed]

@jordan_ross_8F I’ve been blown away with the power of local agents with a good harness. Token costs kept increasing until a few months ago. Kimi and Composer in particular started pushing in the other direction, which is good for the market.

[Adam Kerr @zero_to_seed]

Local AI is great and it doesn’t have to be slow. You can get 50-60 tps on an MoE model with many rigs and can push hundreds TPS with faster ones. Smaller models with good harness and loops goes really far. It’s a bit disorienting comparing to a $50/m token model like fable (RIP)

[Adam Kerr @zero_to_seed]

Tesla FSD is the best user experience of any product ever.

[Adam Kerr @zero_to_seed]

Interesting

[Perplexity @perplexity_ai]

Introducing Brain in Computer.

Brain is a continuously learning memory system. Every task on Computer plugs into a context graph built by Brain.

It makes Computer more stateful with every run.

Available as a research preview for all Perplexity Max subscribers.

[Adam Kerr @zero_to_seed]

@levelsio Software is commoditized, taste is not. The bottleneck is the feedback loop between your ideas and user adoption. That is a human bottleneck, not a software one.

[Adam Kerr @zero_to_seed]

@david_nix @amritwt Fast enough for qwen and Gemma moe, maybe 50-60 tps. Next up is to get some faster cards!

[Adam Kerr @zero_to_seed]

@SpaceTimeViking @NVIDIAAI Awesome!

[Adam Kerr @zero_to_seed]

@frog_omo Trust but verify. If you don’t understand what it did and how it did it, you get AI drift pretty quickly. Too many chasing marketing dreams of AI replacing everyone. AI is an incredible tool for those wielding it without abdicating their responsibility to produce good work.

[Adam Kerr @zero_to_seed]

@DanPMelnick AI works great when the human in the loop commits to understanding each steps inputs and outputs, and aggressively tells the clanker it’s wrong.

[Adam Kerr @zero_to_seed]

@ellie_products One person may be able to produce the output of 20 but not the outcomes of 20. The problem isn’t more throughput, it’s better ROI

[Adam Kerr @zero_to_seed]

@smcho91 People underestimate the psychological benefit of cofounders, and the synergy of complimentary skillsets. Going alone is good for a while, but building together is better is more fun.

[Adam Kerr @zero_to_seed]

@NormanWangTech Delegation is hard. Finding good people is hard. I found the book the e-myth early in my career and it always stuck with me. You can build in the business or build the business, hard to do both at the same time.

[Adam Kerr @zero_to_seed]

AI is a skillset people need to learn. It generally requires an owner operator who is responsible for how the tool is wielded and the results it produces. Too many jump straight to trying to delegate everything to AI, which is really just abdicating.

Trust but verify, just like you do humans. And when either gets it wrong, teach, improve systems and refine.

[Adam Kerr @zero_to_seed]

Build your foundation outside of your business. If your identity is tied up in the roller coaster of circumstance with your business, build up other areas of your identity for resilience. Friends, family, hobbies, exercise. If that feels hard, delegate, fire costly customers, do less. There’s always a million reasons you “can’t”. Just start.

[Adam Kerr @zero_to_seed]

@calvino_antonio Customers often go shopping without knowing what they want to buy. Some are open to consulting, others are not.