Pursuing flourishing through technical wanderlust cofounder @obvious. cofounder @joinentree. prev @Netflix, @Mailchimp, @Udacity, and a recovering politico.

Joined July 2013
#1 motivations for people attending @obvious events: Experience 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁-𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱 things they've only seen 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 post about online. I love this because it's 𝘰𝘶𝘳 primary motivation for creating the events and informs a lot of the decisions we make when organizing them. For instance, we make token usage for the day unlimited and free. We do this so that builders can test how ambitious they can be when unconstrained by cost concerns. Most people haven't experienced what it's like to not have to worry about plan usage limits, API rate limits, or internal spend controls. At @obvious , we want you to feel like you can fly. So we not only build a product that gives you massive leverage for your time and attention, we also remove any concern about cost so you can just build and experience this new way of working.
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Frontier Hackathon in SF next Thursday. @obvious is giving away unlimited free tokens for the day. Come build with us! Register: luma.com/frontierSF
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thanks @amysundae @_web and @rogerdickey for answering so many great questions. was an epic founder panel comment or dm me if you want to attend our next hackathon in Austin a few weeks
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Jon Bell retweeted
Excited to open source Sightmap! Sightmap is a YAML spec + CLI that keeps a runtime map of your app. Views, components, requests, and memories, designed for agents to author and maintain. Every verification run gets smarter and burns fewer tokens. github.com/sightmap/sightmap
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in SF this week lemme buy you dinner
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A tech event worth attending for sure. Thank you @cursor_ai
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specs are half "intent engineering" (thanks @jonbell) and half archeology specs should never state an archeological fact without you being able to instantly reference the source working with the incredible @AdamMocarski on making this idea beautiful and useful today
if software is spec, what if we got AI to make specs that weren't slop? working on this (very inspired by the beauty of makingsoftware.com by @danhollick)
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if software is spec, what if we got AI to make specs that weren't slop? working on this (very inspired by the beauty of makingsoftware.com by @danhollick)
if your agent doesn't write design specs like this your ngmi
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david showed me a demo of @obvious agents a few months back, and it was the first time i saw enough of the stack coming together that a normie startup could continuously and safely delegate complex, multi-hour engineering (and non-engineering) tasks to a non-human.
tomorrow we kick off the 3rd cohort of startups we've invited to use Autobuild, the internal tool driving the insane autonomous build velocity at @obvious (nearing 1000 PRs a day from 10 engineers) each co is shipping 12 weeks of roadmap this is the frontier, build accordingly
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😊 One of the things I love about building in this moment is rediscovering and relearning the primitives/foundations across so many disciplines: - Computer Science - Psychology - Human Computer Interactions - Philosophy - Aesthetics & Ergonomics - Writing, Language, and Literature - etc What a wonderful time to build and learn.
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My siblings are the best
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AI making an impact in the real world. That’s the goal we build towards at @obvious
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Software is becoming a verb. We are building Obvious for that future.
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we've been cooking so hard @flatfile - this video is a good 2.5m catchup
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Introducing Fray - the Cursor for fast-moving designers✨ Fray lets you: - Iterate designs with your own design system. - Designs all the edge cases. - Import & export Figma-ready frames. Want early access? - RT - Comment 'Fray' I'll send you the link. (must be following)
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re-inventing as yes-code (ht @biilmann) has been one of the most rewarding things we've done @flatfilers 🧵a thread on the journey👇
A new era for data import has begun - introducing the API-first Flatfile Data Exchange Platform. Extensible, customizable, AI-powered. Start for free: flatfile.com/news/flatfile-a… #dataexchange #developers #dataimport
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Fine-dining meals delivered to your home are just an Entrée order away tcrn.ch/3ZQ4A6z
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Congrats to the @joinentree team on their round! While there are many food delivery cos, I love their differentiated approach. I flew to Chicago to record for @thepitchshow, went to dinner w @landon20s (thank you!) + his friends, & walked away investing. techcrunch.com/2023/03/15/me…
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