I started a new company. We're working on one of the big, practical problems in AI right now: how teams of humans and agents work together on important, complicated, messy projects. AI is a powerful tool, but people still need to set strategy, bring creativity, provide feedback, and do things the models can't handle yet. And to get anything meaningful done today, you're jumping between a dozen tools with context scattered across countless chat sessions owned by different people on your team. There's no good way to plan, track, and manage all of this across both humans and AI. Our solution is a new kind of project management tool with an AI project manager that relentlessly moves work forward. It can run growth, product, and ops projects end-to-end, using AI where it works well and people where judgment and creativity matter. Early customers are using it for content marketing, video production, web development, recruiting, and event planning. Plenty more use cases I'm excited to share. Interested in trying it? Hit me up. Looking for a few more design partners.

LinkedIn has reached peak cringe. Help us build something better @X. DM me if you: - Have experience building for iOS or Android - Care about design and the little details that make a product great - Want to work at a startup within @X

Expanded Bios are now available to all Premium users on web and iOS. We are already seeing lots of interesting uses: - LinkTree alternative - Resume data - Long form About Me - Q and A - Recipes - Shitposting - Inspirational quotes - Interesting stories - Info on products and services - Entire movie scripts (but why?) - Scouting reports for high school athletes Premium users can find the feature toward the bottom of the ‘Edit Profile’ screen.

We’re hiring for many engineering roles @X. The team is very impressive and it’s an exciting time to join. Apply below.

X job search is live on web: nitter.app/jobs

If you know any good android devs send them our way

If you use 𝕏 for professional poasting you should add work history to your expanded bio. Now available to all premium users on iOS/Web.

Last week I made the tough decision to leave @X. I’m very bullish on the future of this platform and @XHiring, but it’s time to work on something new. It’s been a fun 4 year run. We built a great product at Laskie and became Elon’s first acquisition at Twitter. Our tiny team built job search, job recommendations, job advertising, expanded bios, work history, career pages, and a bunch of other stuff. We added over 1M jobs with millions using our features each month. The future of @X as a less cringey alternative to LinkedIn is bright. I learned a lot working for Elon and whatever I do next will certainly be more hardcore. It was a pleasure teaming up with @chrisjbakke again and working with @adrianpcarbone @DriscollEllis @jono_oshea @deborachu @bwvr and @andy_pants.

Premium users can now feature jobs on their profile with a few clicks. This feature should be useful if your company is a Verified Organization and you want to help promote a few roles that are relevant to you. If a job gets updated or closed that will automatically be reflected on your profile.

Job recommendations are now available to all US users (web only). If you want to see jobs in the timeline that match your preferences, you should try it out. To sign up go here and enter at least one job title and location: nitter.app/jobs/get-recommendatio…

Good news for all the trolls, anons, and degens out there: we don’t share your profile information with employers when you apply to jobs on X. You can try an early version of our job search tool here: nitter.app/jobs. Currently web only. Tech jobs should return decent results. We have some work to do in other categories.

It's been a productive 3.5 months.

I had the opportunity to talk with @rpandey1234 and the @join_taro community last week and share some career advice. I spoke about my career path, how I’ve been able to work in tech without ever applying to a job, and some of the things I’ve learned about networking along the way. Here is a thread with some of my favorite ideas from the talk:

Not yet, but we will be working on this soon.

High functioning teams are the single most valuable resource at a company. Never break up a good team that likes working together. Repurpose them.

Just getting started.

If your company is hiring, become a Verified Org and add your jobs. You will get a significant bump in job recommendations and job search. Verified Orgs with open jobs also get featured in the timeline.

that would make me part of the problem

We are still very early, but would love to hear your feedback. Some of the things on our todo list: - Add way more jobs - Advanced filtering and boolean searches - Better job description formatting - Job description summaries

Btw, this is a job card. It’s how verified organizations can share their jobs on @X moving forward. Right now it shows basic information about a job with a short summary of the job description, then directs applicants to apply via the company’s career site. It works on web/iOS.

This is very much a work in progress. We need to add more jobs, improve the search UX, improve data quality, and add in some basic filters like location before it will be useful enough to launch. If you are actively looking for a job DM me and you can help us test it out.

wow

We have some ideas for how to make these better but we’d love to hear your feedback. Android support is coming soon.

No one will remember how you position your company in the early days. No one will remember how simple or unpolished your product is. People remember what you become. Get out and talk to potential users. Ship product. Experiment with different approaches. Learn and iterate.

I want to help 10 individuals/teams turn their side projects into real businesses. I’ll be running a 6-week side project accelerator from Oct 21 - Nov 29. It will be very focused on building AI products and leveraging AI tools. The details: - I am doing this for fun. It will be free for those that are selected. - There will be one talk and one office hours each week. - I can give you advice on engineering, product and growth stuff but my main job will be to bring accountability and urgency. - Some legit speakers will come talk about AI tools, growth, marketing, design and product. - If you don’t publicly ship something each week you won’t be invited to the next session. - I am mostly looking to help people that are already technical, but will make exceptions for people with interesting ideas that are actively learning to build with AI. - You can apply without an idea and I might be able to match you with a team.

my 4yo son every morning at approximately 6:45am

Moving forward I will only hire engineers that have a high UI/UX bar. Even for mostly doing backend work. It has a huge impact on overall work quality.

Error handling has gotten a lot simpler these days.

Big shoutouts to @DriscollEllis @deborachu and @jono_oshea for making this happen.

Very bad management

Just wrapped up the first batch of TimeToBuild with 2.5 hours of demos. A lot of really cool stuff was built over the last 6 weeks. Some of these are going to be big. Looking forward to posting about all of the projects over the next few weeks.

I'd like to thank everyone that DM'd me in response to this post. I'm blown away by the number of talented people that reached out. I was hoping to respond to everyone but because of the volume I will only be messaging those that seem like a good fit for our current open role.

A few updates on my AI side project accelerator: - 203 teams applied - I met with 62 - I'm inviting around 20 to join Working on getting emails out to everyone that applied now. Really excited about some of these teams and what they are building.

You know you've made it as a shitposter when your work starts getting cited in research papers.

Shoutout to @DriscollEllis @deborachu @andy_pants @adrianpcarbone and @bwvr for all the hard work on this.

According to my account analytics the algorithm doesn't like coloring book content.

Investing this entire week in things that will make me go faster.

Big thanks to @nevmed for letting me come on his pod and talk about my career, @XHiring, AI, and my upcoming side project accelerator. If you are interested in hacking on an AI focused side project with me in October, apply here: timetobuild.dev/

🫡 If we get anywhere close to LinkedIn levels of cringe, something has gone terribly wrong.

I’d argue that if you have people that work for you consistently 1-2 hours a day, regardless of what they are up to, you are probably a pretty bad manager

Excited to launch MadeToColor just in time for the holidays! If you're looking for a fun, educational gift for any kids this year, buy them a custom coloring book experience. Watch the video for more details on how it works. First 50 sales get 50% off with BETA50 code.

We are getting close to the halfway point of TimeToBuild. The teams are impressive and the projects are exciting. Here is list of what will be shipping over the next few weeks: - Cursor for security engineers - Agent that monitors your AWS account proactively looking for security issues - Agents for data engineering and database administration - AI toolkit for constructions sales - Tools to cut the editing time in half for movies, documentaries, commercials, and high-end social content - Agents for large Java migrations - AI-powered boilerplates for common tech stacks - Personal travel agent that makes it ridiculously easy to plan and change trips - AI-powered tools for underwriters - AI agent that immediately calls your leads to schedule time and answer common questions - MyFitnessPal competitor that streamlines the data entry process with AI - Suite of financial tools to provide the value of a digital family office - Coloring book builder for parents and kids to do together as a fun and educational activity - Interactive language learning through conversation - Quiz and study tool targeting college students - AI study companion for math - Tool to help engineers quickly understand large codebases - Tool for generating social media content ideas - AI tools for creating and tracking performance of viral videos - AI-powered data room for M&A - Browser automation designed for sales and marketing use cases - Tax advisory agent - AR digital twins focused on real estate

who is coming up with these prices?

If you change something used by a lot of people - no matter how good the change is - someone will passionately hate you for it.

I started writing down everything I’ve learned about hiring over the last 8 years building products and services in the space. I’m going to organize it into a handbook and post it here section-by-section over the next several weeks. All of the content will eventually end up here: hiring.oshea.io/

TimeToBuild demo day is tomorrow and we are working on some finishing touches to launch our side project in the morning. Just added this rough cut demo video to our site.

First MadeToColor print is being tested by my design partner. Early feedback is good.

I like Claude and moviepy for video editing better than any editor I've tried.

Engineer your luck. Put yourself and your work out into the world. The more people you meet, the more projects you work on, the more ideas you share, the more opportunities you give yourself to get lucky. It’s hard to get lucky if you’re not continuously placing yourself in situations where luck is possible. Be strategic about who you meet and what you work on if you want to engineer luck that aligns with your goals.

I’m also working on a project during the accelerator. It’s called MadeToColor and it's a tool to create coloring books with your kids and get them printed. My design partner is my 4yo son. He is a ruthless and demanding customer with zero sympathy when it comes to limitations with the current foundation models.

Big thanks to @charles_irl for speaking with the TimeToBuild teams this evening. We learned a bunch about deploying your own LLMs for inference, evals, and other fun stuff. Super valuable.

we are working on a better option

If someone can ace your interview process just by grinding leetcode for a month then it probably isn’t very predictive of on-the-job success.

Day 1 of Laskie: we have money in the bank, a great team, a direction and most of our tools setup. Not a terrible start. What's next: validating our thesis with 100+ customer calls. Going to be living on Zoom for the next few weeks. cc @ChrisJBakke @scottdomes @jono_oshea

By 2025 we will start all video calls by exchanging authenticator codes

top career advice for 2024: if you work 3 hours a day at a cushy tech job don't post about it on TikTok. or anywhere. and maybe start working a reasonable number of hours or whatever i dunno.

just used an AI logo generator and the results were so bad that I audibly gasped

“Write first, edit later” is my favorite writing advice, but I think its even more useful when applied to coding. It can help prevent premature optimization/abstraction and getting stuck on details that don’t really matter. Make it work, then make it good.

Upwork is garbage

@grok’s ability to summarize recent posts will definitely change how I consume the news. This morning I caught up on 6 very different topics in less than 10 minutes without leaving @X.

Every forum app should have this in the sidebar. So useful for understanding if the discussion is recent enough to be useful. Found in the django forums.

My guess is that most energy vampires work in procurement.

Still have some bugs to fix with character design but I expect this coloring book to be a best seller. You will love the ending.

can't wait to pay $19.99 a month to print one thing a year

All I wanted to do was make my kid a coloring book and next thing you know I'm learning how to deploy custom flux pipelines with cog.

Using the new product I'm working on to build a coloring book about a recent life event. Can't wait to get copies.

You can all blame Chris when I start posting daily bad takes and unhinged conspiracy theories

Some great lightning talks from the TimeToBuild teams tonight: - building agents @vchennai2 - evals @erodriguez_ai - using LLMs for large code migrations - the future of UI/UX @AttilatheMagyar - AI tools for iOS development @callmeed - LLM jailbreaking @ShehbajDhillon - process intelligence @aidan__pratt

super thankful that Apple gave me early access to the vision pro but I do understand why some people think it's a little bulky

What do you notice about this screenshot?

I expect to see many headlines like this in 2024 and beyond. With GenAI’s growing impact on software development, a huge wave of startups about to fail, VC funding harder to come by, Section 174 changing incentives for companies, and an end to big tech’s focus on head count it will continue getting harder to find a job in tech.

this very ingrained habit is the only reason i still use google ⌘ + L (or ⌘ + T) type whatever i'm thinking

@lizengco just gave a great talk for TimeToBuild about UX/UI design and roasted some of our landing pages. Thank you Li! It was a lot of fun. My big takeaway: writing good headline copy is incredibly hard and requires and a ton of feedback and iteration.

This is a good idea. We will consider adding it.

Inertia grows exponentially with team size.

It's crazy how much worse 1Password is compared to a few years ago. Every change to the core ux has been a downgrade. And now I spend ~5 sec looking at this every time I need a password.

no but we will add that

Apparently the toy industry is more cut-throat than the entertainment industry.

probably going too deep on this whole coloring book thing

The new flux models dropped at the perfect time. Out of the box flux-canny-dev takes coloring book pages with weird hallucinations and makes them a little less weird.

Everyone should be able to see jobs now. Currently only US verified organizations can post jobs but we are looking at expanding that to other countries.

Be visible. Doing great work won’t help you connect with people if no one knows about it. Work and learn in public whenever possible. Share questions that you have and things that you learn. Your ideas don’t need to be perfectly formed or novel to be worth sharing. Just do it consistently. Don’t worry about others judging you. People have a short memory for most content. You will always be your harshest critic.

Add value. If you are helpful and provide genuine value, people will often want to provide some sort of value in return. But don’t expect quid pro quo or you will become bitter and less helpful over time. Be grateful when you get it. Be proactive whenever possible. Often people won’t tell you when they need help or what help they need. This compounds over time. The more connections you make, the more value you can add.

There are many reasons why big tech companies slow down. One cause I’ve encountered 3 times is a large codebase stuck on a very old version of a language or framework (usually Java/Spring). Major upgrades were needed but it required painfully large investments. CodeRamp (TimeToBuild v1) is solving this by building agents to automate the majority of the process. They’re already working with a few large companies in travel and recruiting. The early results are impressive.

i just encountered that bug that every SaaS founder has recurring nightmares about

it's pretty unbelievable that always sunny hasn't done a crypto episode

this year I'm thankful for all the boring work LLMs have done for me. it's made building products much more enjoyable.

MadeToColor has 9 different workflow steps that use an LLM or diffusion model. We were unhappy with end-to-end quality so we stopped product work to build evals for each step. We uncovered several big issues in the process and overall quality has improved significantly. My next project will start with good evals.

You can also use our job search tool here: nitter.app/jobs

Do great work. This is the ultimate form of adding value. People that do great work attract other ambitious people. This idea applies to work you do on personal projects as well as work you do for your employer.

The best way to get a group of people to consistently post on social media for 30 days in a row : - Everyone puts $50 in a pot - If you miss a day you forfeit your cash - Everyone that’s left splits the pot ⁃ Slack channel for everyone share posts and engage with each other

I've made several mistakes with this first batch of TimeToBuild but the biggest was probably underestimating how hard it is to line up good, relevant speakers on short notice.

Don’t be too transactional. Try to add value or build a genuine connection before you ask for something. Don’t be too aggressive or pushy to get something you want. If you get a “no”, be graceful about it, because it’s just the beginning of a connection. Continue to develop it over time.

We recently built a first version of this. More coming soon.

Having to pre-purchase credits for an API is not great user experience.

If you want to more actively look for a job, we have a few options. You can see all of your recommendations and refresh them here: nitter.app/jobs/recommended If you save jobs or mark jobs as “Not Interested” your recommendations will get better over time.

What’s next for job recommendations: - iOS and Android support. - Notifications when you have new job recommendations. - Improvements to our algorithm. Our goal is to have the best job recommendations out there. Today our results are good but not great. - More jobs. Having good inventory is the main driver of recommendation quality. Right now we are at 1.3M jobs but plan to add many more this year.

Before product-market fit you should be trying to learn as fast as possible. Be intentional about the feedback loops you are using to learn and how you weight them. Adding more feedback sources, making them faster, and improving signal are all high leverage activities.

you can't build a serious AI product without really good evals

A lot of people already find jobs through X. We are trying to make it a little bit easier.