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Tony Ennis

@tonyennis

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Building software teams & mobile apps Prev: Built a bank in Asia YC S21

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Apr 06 😱 Bitcoin price is daaangerously close to $69,420 https://t.co/SLosNckXFz 1 0 0 77 73 .
Apr 06 Thoughts on Openclaw - It's created a new product category in consumers minds - AI chat that has great context and can *do* stuff (as opposed to just chat) = 👍 - At the same time, messaging that OpenClaw is now the De Facto way to get AI to do stuff, products being touted as "built for Openclaw" vs "built for agents" = 👎 0 0 0 149 322 .
Apr 03 @MediaKing eli5? 1 0 0 71 16 .
Apr 03 Matt's the expert here & i know very little, but I really struggle to understand this equation. Stripe doesn't just *get* the Indiehackers audience, nor does Hubspot with The Hustle - they can run ads for free, but editorial is still the same - where does this materialize? 1 0 1 259 277 .
Apr 03 🤣 https://t.co/6Zpeh5ycaw 1 0 0 141 25 .
Apr 03 It took one day 😆 https://t.co/TxbxijFCZA 0 0 0 72 43 .
Apr 02 Haven't seen anyone talk about this - you can now pay to bypass ads on Instagram? https://t.co/8Zq2K8gTwI 1 0 0 187 105 .
Apr 01 We now have 2 models that *feel* on par with Opus inside Claude Code. The glaring gap is still context window - compaction is still super regular and annoying. Once someone brings out a model that has same performance with the 1m context window, we'll have a realistic replacement. 2 0 1 291 281 .
Mar 31 This is such a great test for exploring "the end of labour" with AI - building something great is the product of a lot of seemingly small things that add up - do people really think that all the items on this list are *fully replaceable* by AI, even in the next 10 years? 0 0 0 205 271 .
Mar 26 Seeing and taking this has completely destroyed the credibility for me of multiple people I held in very high esteem, who have either been gesturing strongly or stating explicitly that LLMs will get us to AGI - it makes the whole thing seem just completely farcical 1 0 0 180 265 .
Mar 26 I always thought having *multiple* AI bot identities didn't make sense - if intelligence-capacity isn't the constraint, why not just have one "God" bot that can handle everything, but I realized it's actually the best mechanism for setting context. E.g. I know that this identity has these credentials and access to these instructions. 1 0 0 104 335 .
Mar 23 https://t.co/JgBHhPpE28 0 0 0 84 23 .
Mar 20 Another AI workspace enters the chat https://t.co/Kp4Avvi6Z8 0 0 0 257 61 .
Mar 16 I keep seeing this caricature of men and I have to say, I literally don't know anyone who acts like this? Reminds me of the way the manosphere guys caricature women. Is this a US thing? Am I in a bubble? Are other people in a bubble? 1 0 0 302 234 .
Mar 15 Something I can see happening in the near future - Agents cause an increasing number of security issues & also begin to hammer APIs - Products begin to lock down their APIs, require 2fa, or charge extra for API/MCP - People end up just building their own replacements 4 0 1 236 273 .
Mar 12 The dumb thing about this is that the MCP spec could have allowed "rest API with Oauth" as a method, but they mandate the ridiculous every-tool-is-a-local-server approach, and now people are rightly seeing it's too burdensome and skipping it completely 0 0 0 233 253 .
Mar 11 Hallucinations starting to go back up again - wasn't this meant to be solved? https://t.co/pqDDsmM7A2 1 0 1 102 101 .
Mar 08 At some point companies will compose 100% of their execution from modular processes that will be gradually converted from human-only, to human-in-the-loop, to agent only, and you'll be able to visualize, manage and monitor your company just like an n8n workflow https://t.co/zcsBPqumxy 1 0 1 358 285 .
Mar 08 Would like to keep a thread of interesting people working on ZHCs (Zero Human Companies) or similar. So far I have @Shpigford @nateliason @johnrushx @Bencera @tonyennis (yours truly) Anyone else to keep an eye on? 3 0 1 339 220 .
Mar 08 I am simultaneously... - Building the most insane autonomous AI stuff & giddy about what is possible. - Having extreme doubts about the "death of white collar work" and quote-unquote "intelligence" of the current models I would guess same for a lot of people 1 0 2 284 264 .
Mar 06 https://t.co/QbEPxXLNee 0 0 0 73 23 .
Mar 06 Direct quote from a senior consultant my client brought in, on a call this week: “You can’t just keep cramming things on a server, it’s just not how things scale”. It was a 2cpu 4gb ram server for internal tools that was at about 40% capacity on most metrics. The client has a few dozen customers and 50 projects. 🤷‍♂️ 3 0 0 311 319 .
Mar 06 Enjoy Derek's takes but... - "Boastful" certainly makes it easier & that mightn't be a bad thing. This culture is partly why the US is so prosperous - "Sham Products" - you could write an entire book on the delicate moral philosophy of what constitutes valuable. The underlying questions are 1. "What percentage of people who buy actually get value", and 2. At what ratio do you consider something "a sham". But many things have the characteristic that people who don't get value from them outnumber people who do get value - often it's the entire business model - gyms, insurance, social security. - "You can easily be a millionaire" - Ask anyone who owns a business that has employees, customers, suppliers etc & sees the effort required to hit seven figures in revenue, the difference between topline and the amount you actually take home, and how much effort is and stress is required, & you'll be very hard pressed to find anyone who would describe it as easy. Of course grifters exist, but this level of puritanical cynicism affects people's worldviews in a way that prevents a lot of people who have something of genuine value to offer (e.g Derek himself), from doing so, and leads to black-and-white, spiteful thinking that penalizes any form of self promotion or monetization that are by far net positive. 1 0 0 173 1.3k .
Mar 03 AI (Claude) is still not good at well reasoned, well structured argumentative documents, particularly high stakes ones. But speaking to AI and getting a first draft that you can completely rewrite is still a helpful exercise. 0 1 0 116 227 .
Mar 03 https://t.co/1xHkwYBcrE 0 0 1 165 23 .
Mar 02 This is awesome. If you want to take it to the next level and have both modern approaches and beautiful styling, https://t.co/lWxjnoglNd 😁 1 0 0 160 139 .
Mar 01 https://t.co/qe09e6twV9 0 0 1 68 23 .
Feb 21 I found an in between here Started with db backed Ui that had lots of features but was fundamentally point and click Ended up with a web based file browser - a thin layer on top of the filesystem that gives me extra stuff I don’t get with Finder. Now I use chat to do the acting but I can explore and inspect the outputs or intermediate steps where necessary 0 0 0 322 360 .
Feb 20 Is anyone using Notion agentically to store content? Seems incredibly inefficient with claude code https://t.co/j1orLmSk8D 1 0 0 211 122 .
Feb 19 Something the "Software is dead" commentary misses is the sheer premium people will pay to not have to manage or worry. It's been possible for years to get software built cheaply on Fiver or Upwork, but it takes *a lot* of back and forth, the responsibility burden for quality, stability etc is borne by the manager, not the doer, peace of mind is lower, and likelihood of success is lower. So people pay an agency 6 or 7 figures to build the same proof of concept. AI obviously changes the equation, but I'm not sure it does so substantially enough to remove those considerations entirely. 2 0 1 172 593 .
Feb 15 This was probably the most impressive thing Claude Code has done for me so far, there's no way I would have figured this out without spending days on it. https://t.co/fOXlhOP3Ja 5 0 2 309 177 .
Feb 09 https://t.co/3CNrELJc87 0 0 0 87 23 .
Feb 08 Ooooh https://t.co/VpAIZbFNbx 0 0 0 90 29 .
Feb 06 https://t.co/tD27v9Zq5Y 0 0 1 215 23 .
Feb 06 Banger tweet 2 0 0 138 12 .
Feb 04 More on this. Using Pi as the harness... - Kimi k2 on Groq is fast but a bit dumb, and dangerous - GLM on Cerebras just has non-stop API rate limiting issues But both give you a taste of Claude Code at near instantaneous speed & it feels crazy Looks like post acquisition @GroqInc has no plans to add Kimi 2.5 Are there other super fast inference providers? 0 0 2 415 363 .
Feb 04 Aaaaand I lost a half day of work 🙃 Kimi k2 is fast but if you get to used to Opus/CC you forget these models can take extremely destructive actions on a whim (like git reset --hard HEAD for example) 0 0 0 151 200 .
Feb 03 Switching from Claude Code to Pi wired up to Kimi K2 on Groq is like going from listening to podcasts on 1x to 2.5x. 0 0 0 390 116 .
Feb 03 Old enough to remember when @openclaw was called Clawdis 0 0 0 99 56 .
Feb 03 This is the exact inverse of my takeaway from this. There was insane levels of hype all the way through from 2020, and the sane prediction at the time was actually “This will take 5 or 6 years before it changes anything meaningfully” . In fact if you’d said that, a majority of people would have laughed at you for underestimating and mocked you for not seeing the future. 0 0 0 181 372 .
Feb 03 Second js-based app that's crashing on me this week. @convex what's the deal? My browser literally can't handle your SPA https://t.co/cNCSuQbhEd 0 0 0 121 144 .
Feb 03 This. I spent a few hours yesterday trying to get glm on cerebras or kimi on groq wired up and I can’t help but feel there are incentives at play here to make this very hard and normalise the slow, closed source expensive models 0 0 0 190 228 .
Feb 03 Stick it on a vm, add passenger to your rails apps, connect cursor or vscode directly to it and you now have “live development”. We’ve been doing this for years & it’s awesome 0 0 0 167 179 .
Feb 02 https://t.co/RJ7euWCE5F 0 0 1 96 23 .
Feb 02 Really bums me out how abysmally bad the accounting/tax industry is when it comes to customer experience I've used 10+ firms across jurisdictions & have yet to meet anyone who has more than 2/10 focus on assisting the client - helping you understand, deal with bureaucracy, find the best solution. It's basically just "Here's a list of shit you have to do, scattered over 10 email threads". "Oh you want to do *that*, you'll have to figure it out yourself". Once you're outside the happy path (e.g. any kind of international setup) you're completely on your own. 0 0 0 114 566 .
Feb 02 Got a cold email from a sushi restaurant. Not sure if this is a one-off (insanely resourceful marketing team) or if AI is making this much easier and we can expect a much wider range of cold emails in future. https://t.co/mvltEqT1ol 0 0 0 125 234 .
Feb 02 https://t.co/9cGXAyNbkx 0 0 1 91 23 .
Jan 31 Didn't expect when I tweeted this that it would only take a week for the first breakout consumer example (@openclaw) to hit the mainstream. 0 0 1 263 139 .
Jan 30 Took a week for me to realize how much of a game changer @flydotio new product is Haven't used it yet because I'm still building my agent in solo mode, but for AI apps that need their own VM this is going to remove so much pain. https://t.co/KTxq8z8myK 1 0 0 203 256 .
Jan 29 I have a hunch that a huge contributor to nosediving fertility rates is a shift in what's generally considered as the bar for being a "standard good" parent. People who have kids non-stop-humblebrag on socials about what they do for them and how they center their life around them. People who don't have kids see where the bar is, and go "I don't know if I can meet that". From what I gather for most of history people didn't overthink having kids. Now it seems like it has to be a "hell yes or no" situation. 1 0 1 237 510 .
Jan 28 What’s the thinking here? That the government should prevent employers from hiring overseas? 0 0 0 188 92 .
Jan 23 ... https://t.co/QVT6g2BSyU 0 0 0 118 27 .
Jan 20 Looks like @clickup acquisition ruined @codegen 😢 1 0 0 162 49 .
Jan 19 *bare 🤦‍♂️ 0 0 0 91 10 .
Jan 19 Coding is maybe the perfect domain to lay bear the difference between having a huge amount of information and the ability to construct semantically correct language, and actually being smart. It's still in the harness, not the models. https://t.co/uImyFpKSuI 1 0 2 240 258 .
Jan 17 https://t.co/fIf1JZHKMa 0 0 1 144 23 .
Jan 17 Good example of what I mean https://t.co/dq1PMYjwPd 0 0 1 140 51 .
Jan 15 Consumer focused vibe coding app business models are the digital equivalent of a gym chain 90% of people will join aspirationally but never follow through enough to see any real value - because the hard part is getting people to pay you for what you built. 0 0 0 99 258 .
Jan 15 The only reason people have to do this now is because the agents are still slow. A lot of the fanfare about multiple parallel agents will look comical in hindsight 0 0 1 131 163 .
Jan 13 Best product I've seen doing this so far is @zocomputer - very cool stuff. 1 0 0 117 74 .
Jan 13 The Server is the Context Claude Code is significant not because it's amazing at coding, but because it's shown us that the most powerful way to wield AI is via an agent loop with access to an operating system. An agent like this needs a server, so it follows that the breakout AI products will likely give their users one, and non-technical people will begin to be exposed to that idea as more products adopt it. I don't buy that mainstream users will phone home to their laptops while they're out and about - I think it's much more likely that we create products that bring some "offline" concepts (file browser etc) into the browser. I think this architecture is likely the final form of the breakout AI products - b2b & b2c. 1 0 1 434 735 .
Jan 12 ... https://t.co/4St9baG6fg 0 0 0 63 27 .
Jan 11 This is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen a product leader say in a long time and makes me quite bearish on Twitter. “The product” for 95% of people is the tweets they see. Why would you lead product if you don’t own or have control over 90% of it 1 0 0 218 249 .
Jan 09 The percentage of my time I spend talking to my macbook is very high, and still trending upwards. https://t.co/Lg5I6j4z2T 0 0 0 114 121 .
Jan 09 Code review should be conversational This week I built a little UI on top of GitHub pull requests and started using Claude Code to review larger PRs. Totally transformed the depth and quality of the review. For junior/mid level developers in particular, having a conversation where the agent has a list of all the changes, and sharing that conversation feels way more valuable than just leaving comments on lines. 3 0 0 250 418 .
Jan 07 Building "Lovable for real codebases" because why not Already at the point where it's "operating on itself" Crazy times https://t.co/8vItnulhsl 3 0 0 138 146 .
Jan 06 ... https://t.co/b4Ta606r2E 1 0 0 93 27 .
Jan 05 I’m a simple man. I see a tweet with “HTML” in it, I like it 3 0 0 127 62 .
Jan 05 Annnd two Claude Code prompts later we have a prototype... https://t.co/lIs3OG6PnM 0 0 0 198 82 .
Jan 05 After building a lot of AI supported products this year, & having drunk the Claude Code koolaid, the primitives of a horizontal winner-take-all agent product are… - File system with file/folder browser - Database browser - Interface creator - Chat UI Everything is a remix on top 2 0 0 360 283 .
Jan 05 Software that's built by "Firing off agents and coming back when they've finished" skips the "feeling it out" loop, which - when the smoke clears - will be the only part of the software building process that takes any real time. https://t.co/5IdrcFLPm6 0 0 0 109 252 .
Jan 04 Working on my twitter tool through slack from the passenger seat on a long car drive feels magic https://t.co/CPoFrjDmNm 1 0 0 272 120 .
Jan 02 Just Shipped OnePageTime A single page to make sure you're spending your time wisely - Visualize where your time is going - Zero learning curve or advanced features, just start tracking - 100% Free - Use signed out (or sign in to save your data) https://t.co/RzZnd7wFXr https://t.co/TBvYWpAvOI 3 1 0 275 297 .
Jan 02 Hume Health scale is unusable out of the box, app wont get past the Bluetooth connection screen. Don’t buy one 4 0 0 216 110 .
Jan 01 I changed how I think about alcohol last year, but I don’t think these particular risk factors are compelling for most people For me brain health is the core thing (apart from mobility) to plan for in old age (who wants to lose their memory and ability to hold a normal paced conversation), and there’s zero doubt that everyone who drinks heavily (cough Ireland), is impairing their brain. @bryan_johnson shouldn’t that be more of a focus in your messaging? 0 0 0 193 459 .
Jan 01 The hardest part of vibe coding as an experienced developer is the whiplash You go from traveling 100km/hr to slowing to snail's pace, on a constant loop. Needs a certain kind of stamina/temperament 0 0 0 116 202 .
Jan 01 Struggling to square this with my extreme bullishness on Alphabet after listening to the acquired pod https://t.co/ZxfIPk8Heq 0 0 0 200 126 .
Jan 01 ... https://t.co/RbeaB9AKoT 0 0 0 110 27 .
Jan 01 Added an extension that blocks Reddit and noticed my google usage went to zero, because searching Reddit was basically the last thing I was using google for 1 0 3 432 156 .
Dec 31 @josevalim recent Tidewave upgrade* 0 0 0 0 35 .
Dec 31 @josevalim hey! I mainly code on a live url while ssh'ed into a vm - am I correct in saying the recent upgrade forbids this? 0 0 0 0 124 .
Dec 31 🤦‍♂️ @cursor_ai in built browser is not very good https://t.co/lSB55cavww 1 0 0 203 73 .
Dec 29 Just open sourced a Claude Code <> Slack bridge so you can run Claude in a VM and get it to do stuff without ssh'ing. There are other libraries but none had the features I wanted. Reeeally liking this single file approach - feels like it speeds things up a lot - took about 2 hours to vibe code with Claude Code. https://t.co/Ykl0gXw3Cd 6 0 0 422 340 .
Dec 29 Having a lot of fun turning Claude Code into a real assistant - Gave Claude Code it's own VM ✓ - Connected Roam -> G Drive in real time ✓ - Connected G Drive -> Cloud Claude ✓ - Connected Cloud Claude to Slack ✓ 0 0 0 415 217 .
Dec 28 @aarondfrancis 2 years ago I published a website (which was ironically pretty torn apart by hacker news) which led almost directly to @aarondfrancis interviewing me on stage, and to meeting and working with several other people I admire 3 0 0 0 236 .
Dec 24 @jayvraavi Awesome to hear. Great work 💪 1 0 0 0 40 .
Dec 24 @mhp_guy People like “controlled hard”, you’re referring to “uncontrolled hard” - not same thing (but I agree people should have more kids) 4 0 0 0 139 .
Dec 24 @fractaledmind One of my 2026 goals was to “lean into html on Twitter”. I fear you may have beaten me to it 😅 2 0 0 0 109 .
Dec 22 From our team's Granola Wrapped 😅 I may have finally arrived at the lifestyle I set out to build. https://t.co/rg6kWb6zVa 4 0 0 212 123 .
Dec 21 "Don't underthink it" is an underused mantra. Sit down, write down your thoughs, create the spreadsheet, run the numbers. Untangle what makes sense from what doesn't. Go deeper than surface level. Have good answers for yourself and others. 2 0 1 245 240 .
Dec 20 I keep seeing these charts of engineering task that take LLMs 4.5 hours to complete, but no one ever says what the task is or if it’s things that are actually useful. 3 0 0 434 166 .
Dec 20 The future of frontend engineering is in having in-depth knowledge of CSS, not having in-depth knowledge of javascript. 0 0 0 146 119 .
Dec 17 @fractaledmind @rikschennink Tbh I don't disagree, I just haven't had a need for it since I stopped using it. 0 0 0 0 109 .
Dec 17 @fractaledmind @rikschennink Gotcha! Maybe one day when I ditch my puritanistic ways and go back to having a build step 😅 enjoyed your most recent thread 1 0 0 0 153 .
Dec 17 @fractaledmind @rikschennink I personally love the simplicity of just throwing an svg in my icons folder and using inline_svg to reference it 0 0 0 0 141 .
Dec 17 @fractaledmind @rikschennink Love this generally. Am I correct in saying with this solution when you add a new icon you have to make a new class for it? 0 0 0 0 152 .
Dec 16 @jackmcdade Did this last weekend and the best collection is https://t.co/AKkOJxwaE7 5 1 0 0 85 .
Dec 13 @Jivansh77 @karpathy @karpathy if you’re interested in this check out https://t.co/EgIFQGIGpH - a treatise against the 500lb website 61 7 0 0 132 .
Dec 12 But I thought you *needed* to write everything in typescript to not get left behind by AI assisted coding? 2 0 0 404 106 .
Dec 06 @adamwathan Any chance you have a blog post link that covers what you’d include in “all of the accessibility stuff”? Also at what % coverage would you consider the new browser features to be acceptable here? Popovertarget is at 88% coverage but doesn’t get you keyboard navigation 0 0 0 0 280 .
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