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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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May 30 This is interesting. But if there's only marginal difference, shouldn't you do the one that builds the most goodwill and exposes most people to the product? 0 1 0 175 156 .
May 30 Using AI for non trivial long running work follows a similar graph to the Gartner hype cycle But you have to actually use it for hours a day, for a sustained period to internalise that. This might explain why CEOs of larger companies (including the AI cos themselves) are so hyperbolic - they’re not using it first hand for long enough to see it’s imperfections, and they’re drowning in the noise from all the people who are atop the peak of inflated expectations, and assuming they’re at the bottom of a hockey stick. 3 0 0 192 520 .
May 30 @foragemail it all started great but now I'm getting way too many emails into my main inbox during the day - have my preferences saved like this, and every time I remove the "Inbox" tag but they're still coming. How can i fix? https://t.co/OXAfVEaEWJ 0 0 0 0 250 .
May 30 For anyone following the @remix_run announcement and wondering how to do no build (p)react 1 1 0 167 90 .
May 29 @ryanflorence @remix_run Looks like that other link didn't work https://t.co/BheRJ01hEA 0 0 0 0 88 .
May 29 https://t.co/yfzvhT3Q2u 0 0 0 136 23 .
May 29 @ryanflorence @jherr Ryan any chance you’re coming to to big sky dev con again this year? Don’t want to have to wait til October to see this stuff 0 0 0 0 146 .
May 29 This looks super handy for spinning up simple agents 1 0 0 160 52 .
May 29 @ryanflorence @remix_run Cleaned it up a little to make it more scannable - is this roughly accurate? https://t.co/oOrYfKhyJo 0 0 0 0 126 .
May 28 What’s going on with Nikita? I know he doesn’t think these coins are the same thing as issuing shares. So why is he risking his reputation on this? Has he explained somewhere how this is different to all of the other similar crypto products that devolved into meme coins? 0 0 0 132 272 .
May 28 Yup 0 0 0 128 3 .
May 28 @specialCaseDev Oooh I like this 1 0 0 0 32 .
May 28 The key to building something *really* polished is the period after the "designs have been implemented" where the engineers, pms, designers do hundreds of use-tweak-test loops, see how it *feels*, and keep iterating til the end to end experience feels right. You can tell by using their products that Google just doesn't do this - it's ticket driven development - if it can't be described and added as a ticket, then it won't be done. 2 0 1 272 436 .
May 27 For a long time there haven’t been great examples to point to for “What are some html first apps that feel as polished/slick as Js SPAs” but Ronan’s stuff definitely hits that bar. So nice 2 0 1 306 188 .
May 27 @hirbod_dev @aleqsio Your stuff is gold 3 0 0 0 39 .
May 26 @aidenybai You forgot “Have novel thought, get sucked into creating tweet about it” 1 0 0 0 83 .
May 26 When Devin came out I was like "Holy shit this might be it", but it's still not that much better than tools with no feedback loop. 0 0 0 296 130 .
May 26 @joshmanders @BigSkyDevCon Come! Would be fun to hang out! 1 0 0 0 58 .
May 26 Gotta love the irony https://t.co/BLtXWjsSBQ 0 0 0 172 44 .
May 26 This is a good thing, I think 0 0 0 258 29 .
May 26 Hot take: if you play this at full speed, it’s actually a slower and less fun way to build web software I actually do believe in voice to code, but this start/stop, slow iteration speed isn’t there yet 1 0 1 268 202 .
May 25 Next level poasting https://t.co/UXDAd81Cou 1 0 0 150 43 .
May 24 Unpopular opinion: Cursor Agent mode is the least enjoyable way to use AI to code - the accept/reject UX is still super clunky, and it's quite slow most of the time 0 0 0 221 164 .
May 24 @anuatluru This is much more pronounced in the US - not as bad in Europe. One of the tradeoffs of caring less what people think. Also this https://t.co/pvB0EDiOzK 23 1 0 0 163 .
May 24 May just have invented a much faster way to interact with LLMs? Do people do this? Is it just a coincidence this worked? cc @bentossell https://t.co/djGnMPfxdh 2 0 1 384 160 .
May 24 BREAKING Twitter 1 0 0 176 17 .
May 24 @hirbod_dev @expo Hey! Sent you a quick dm on an expo video question, possibly in your hidden DMs 0 0 0 0 97 .
May 23 Is there a good online slide tool like slidev but more controlled? I want to include code and have nice transitions, but I don't want to spend half my time debugging the slide tool 1 0 0 191 180 .
May 23 O3 Max Cursor is great, but is it *intelligent*? https://t.co/PR9Mhtz0d8 0 0 0 145 72 .
May 23 @willobri Satoshi Mc’Omoto 2 0 0 0 26 .
May 23 Hard to know exactly what “its own rendering abstraction” means here, but might this be the first domino falling? https://t.co/beUhHR6t1s 0 0 0 300 137 .
May 22 @derkolstad You’re some boyo 1 0 0 0 28 .
May 22 @derkolstad Where dis? 1 0 0 0 22 .
May 22 @Shpigford Was very impressed with https://t.co/1LfLIcPpgO - they make it very easy to give them content - tweets etc - that other more general tools don't do. 2 0 0 0 159 .
May 21 Shopify announced their official Web Components today. I thought inline event handlers were frowned upon but I'm loving the locality of behaviour and Platform First approach here https://t.co/DriTf8HLGd https://t.co/uRiId39pqy 0 0 1 222 227 .
May 21 I feel like the bar for customer service in most companies is "let's address issues had by large numbers of customers and dismiss outliers as complainers", when it should be "let's address every *reasonable* issue raised, including outliers" 1 0 0 137 241 .
May 21 Used @theblueground recently. The Good: Their email response times are fast The Bad: Apt was unsleep-able for the first 5 days due to blinds that didn't work. Trying to charge us a sneaky additional $260 fee for "2 hours of additional cleaning" despite leaving it exactly as described in their move out email. 0 0 0 160 311 .
May 21 I think @staysaasy has the highest amount of tweets-I-wish-id-written of any account. Simple insights clearly articulated. This one is 100% my experience 1 0 0 183 153 .
May 21 I absolutely loathe bureaucracy and regulation, but I share the view that thinking that’s what’s behind the EU/US divide is incorrect. In the US, there is a pervasive desire for more-and-better, coupled with the absence of shame and cynicism (and then the obvious head start/rich-get-richer, network effects that compound that). It’s not the one-true-way - both have benefits and trade offs, and I like the European way. But you don’t get US level wealth by simply removing over regulation and keeping the culture the same. 4 0 0 427 525 .
May 21 @Una @rachelandrew That's awesome! Any chance those slides are online anywhere? 0 0 0 0 79 .
May 20 @wagslane @thepatwalls would contest this I’m sure 2 0 0 0 50 .
May 20 @jackfriks It's crazy the 37 Signals material isn't more well known. @Wildbit was another one, but we need more. I'm trying too 😁 1 0 0 0 129 .
May 20 @therealdecross Depends but if I'm 5 nested files deep then yeah, but that seems more dependent on short term memory which for me is quite bad. But reading text feels like it shouldn't have the same issue. https://t.co/iuibk3LLv3 0 0 0 0 229 .
May 20 Am I the only one who finds it quite difficult to switch "brain modes" from coding or something else that's rapid-fire, to reading a long message or email and properly comprehending it? Is that a thing? 3 0 1 304 202 .
May 19 @derkolstad This is extremely offensive to my people. Do better 0 0 0 0 63 .
May 19 In Charlotte, North Carolina and never in my life have I seen as many tucked-in-collared-tees. I feel out of place not wearing one. 1 0 1 228 131 .
May 19 @bentossell Factory eyyyyy 2 0 0 0 26 .
May 19 @usescoutai @RobFarlow Study here: https://t.co/oSdmL7eiIm 0 0 0 112 58 .
May 19 In 2025, the top open source browser agent can still only reliably complete tasks 30% of the time. To replace real employees, this will need to get closer to 100%. The top closed-source is still only at 60%. This reflects our real world experiments at @usescoutai HT @RobFarlow https://t.co/8T6Yuh5KOM 1 0 1 227 302 .
May 19 @RobFarlow Got you thanks. I've seen a few people imply vision based browser agents are better - but I can't find any/many examples - what ones were you referring to in your original tweet? 0 0 0 0 189 .
May 19 As AI agents get more common, there will come a day when we choose products based on how annoying their captcha is https://t.co/pBFMUtFyF3 1 0 0 144 138 .
May 19 @nlpnyc @lessin Do you not think that when they’re making toddler-level mistakes that the idea they’re “intelligent” (as we’d currently define intelligence) seems inaccurate? And therefore it’s reasonable to have some skepticism they’ll go from not-intelligent to intelligent? 0 0 0 0 276 .
May 19 @RobFarlow What are the better open source alternatives currently? 0 0 0 0 66 .
May 18 Took me a few watches but if you zoom in there are people on the masts/sails that get thrown off when it hits. 0 0 0 305 110 .
May 17 @joshmanders As much as this triggers me it is exceptionally well done and I commend whoever built it 3 0 0 0 101 .
May 14 RT @tonyennis: The history of web development: 1. Frameworks and tooling (abstractions) are built to do what the platform can't. 2. The pl… 0 5 0 0 140 .
May 14 Holy shit it’s happening https://t.co/OEzgQiISzV 4 0 1 462 48 .
May 14 Claude 3.5-Sonnet was released ~a year ago & despite being followed by 3.5-Haiku & 3.7-Sonnet, is *still* the recommended model for half of cursor tasks - Incredibly impressive from the @AnthropicAI team - Proof that we're perhaps not progressing at exponential speed toward AGI https://t.co/I8vAkIPugK 3 1 0 276 311 .
May 11 US prices in a nutshell https://t.co/85uTP1Ri2m 1 0 0 190 47 .
May 11 RT @peteromallet: I spent the past months building https://t.co/LNfjaMBCem. Growing from the Banodoco community, my hope is that it’ll bec… 0 30 0 0 135 .
May 11 @devhenryhale @coderhq Haven’t seen lake.js - what drove that decision? 0 0 0 0 71 .
May 11 @devhenryhale @coderhq Adding to list to try over the weekend 1 0 0 0 61 .
May 10 Excited to announce I'll be speaking at Big Sky Dev Con in August 😊 Last year's speakers were some of the people I admire most in the industry, & I'm sure this year will be just as epic - still can't believe they let me in tbh, but I'll try not to disappoint Come Join! https://t.co/FJeFAmcVeX 7 0 0 376 298 .
May 10 @tinybirdco Maybe a silly question, but do you think there's a theoretical way to bring performance up to closer to 100, by optimizing the system prompt? 1 0 0 0 153 .
May 10 @Shpigford Check your DMs! 0 0 0 0 26 .
May 10 @shl Congrats man! ❤️ 1 0 0 0 21 .
May 09 @bentossell you should've stayed longer! 0 0 1 163 40 .
May 09 Twitter & San Francisco this week are basically the same thing. Keep meeting people at events then seeing them on my feed - what I imagine early twitter must have felt like. 4 0 1 319 177 .
May 09 @shreyashdamania @codegen It's in the screenshot :) 1 0 0 0 51 .
May 08 Glorifying drinking is cringe Glorifying never-drinking is cringe Normalize nuance Denounce dichotomozation 2 0 1 472 109 .
May 08 @coreyhainesco @shl Much of the original reasoning came from the fact that - for LLMs - typescript is more robust (if it compiles that usually means it works) has much more training data so can one-shot things quicker, has better UI libraries, and better DX (autocomplete etc). I showed him that with… 8 0 0 0 301 .
May 08 If this is true, why do the models still not seem to understand reality? 0 0 0 342 72 .
May 08 Blasphemy! 0 0 0 200 10 .
May 07 I've gotten so tired of this that yesterday I built a custom UI for my bank data so that I can see it without logging in, and we'll likely migrate off @Xero soon because it takes on avg 1 minute to simply get to the home screen 0 0 0 223 227 .
May 07 @kingsley_kelly The point was I wouldn't have intuitively guessed that *entering text into a plain text field* was the part that doesn't work reliably 0 0 0 0 150 .
May 07 This seems more correct to me than “models have human-like intelligence” 4 0 0 260 72 .
May 07 I try not to be mean on here, but it’s hard to highlight obviously wrong statements like “Basically everything you see will be generated by an Llm” without coming off as that. That idea - that humans don’t care about predictability in their interfaces - defies a *lot* of patterns to date. If you think it, write a post or tweet thread that breaks down why - these offhand comments making big claims come off as extremely hubristic and naive. 0 0 0 272 442 .
May 07 The Promise... The Reality... Browser Use agents are still *extremely* rough https://t.co/Z3R1E9lvbJ 1 0 1 189 102 .
May 07 😂 The @AnthropicAI system prompt basically does what I did with https://t.co/NESs4jkTw4 https://t.co/IHSo4EN499 1 0 0 207 111 .
May 06 Wait what? @windsurf_ai is the html first ai ide? Must go back and use it more 1 0 1 286 78 .
May 06 https://t.co/N4qcduSVia 1 0 0 127 23 .
May 06 Is @OpenAI neutering the models available through the API? Asked o3 a really tricky code reasoning problem in the chat app - correctly identified and fixed everything. Used the exact same prompt in @cursor_ai with O3 and it totally missed it and kept going around in circles 0 0 0 220 274 .
May 05 @searchbrat @levelsio As an Irishman who did gtfo - Amsterdam is 100% the place. Similar prices to Ireland but 10x quality of living. Pieter may disagree - not sure he’s a fan of NL. We did a euro tour before deciding 4 0 0 0 217 .
May 04 @rauldoesnothing Also I think it's open access now? 0 0 0 0 51 .
May 04 @rauldoesnothing Have access. Was impressed with the onboarding (they have you set up a cloud VM which is the feedback-loop-closer), but then the first task I assigned the agent - it didn't check it's work in the browser and produced code that didn't work 0 0 0 0 255 .
May 02 @nickbakeddesign Pretty sure there was a 6713 in there at one point? (because I copied it) 1 0 0 0 90 .
May 02 @JosephKChoi @consumerclub_ @lottsnomad 😂 you must’ve been the one person I didn’t chat to. Thanks for hosting though! 2 0 0 0 118 .
May 02 Whatever LLMs do is not *reasoning*. Human intelligence doesn't work like this. If a human said this you would think they were having a stroke. https://t.co/0jL8wSZkHb 0 0 0 202 167 .
May 02 @realcalebwin Looks very cool! Have you run any benchmarks (e.g WebVoyager) against it? 0 0 0 0 87 .
Apr 30 Honest question - if the box disables all the drones, what is capturing the aerial footage? 1 0 1 291 91 .
Apr 29 @adbc_an @codeiumdev @cursor_ai @cline Couldn't you say that about MCP? 0 0 0 0 71 .
Apr 29 @nikitabier @believeapp (Big fan of your work, and @solana) As an outsider, this mechanism (random's respond to a tweet without the founder's buy-in, with a $ symbol), no url, no website, looks like crypto/memecoin spam - might that not blunt the "will continue to spread virally until saturated"… 2 0 0 0 298 .
Apr 29 @shl @ofcboogeyman It was originally an internal plan though right? Assuming that changed, would love to hear about what changed your guys' mind - looking at the sheer size of the codebase, assuming it's just a priorities thing? https://t.co/DPicKn2zNG 0 0 0 0 252 .
Apr 29 @shl @ofcboogeyman @shl are you guys still planning on migrating the gumroad backend to Typescript from Rails? 0 0 0 0 110 .
Apr 28 @TylerAlterman @Shadow_Rebbe Another (very different) one for you: https://t.co/xlYgVfUYma 1 0 0 0 90 .
Apr 27 @elidourado Are you using it a lot? Fancy trying an alternative that has better reliability? 0 0 0 0 92 .
Apr 27 😂 these lawyers are likely being paid 8 figures. Crazy 1 0 0 302 54 .
Apr 26 This is next level trust building and more people should do it. The lack of humility and honesty about shortcomings with all the new AI products is exhausting and leads to constant disappointment. The best AI powered products aren’t the ones that everyone’s talking about 1 0 0 217 271 .
Apr 24 @AirbnbHelp As expected, the DM thing is an exercise to save face, not to actually help https://t.co/Ms4Pq6TPGX 0 0 0 0 111 .
Apr 24 @AirbnbHelp I already spoke to support over the phone. They told me I hat to wait 30 minutes til they reach out to the host, and I’d get 20% off a re book which was no good because there was nothing else available, just used https://t.co/b9687JOAoQ 0 0 0 0 248 .
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