Founder @actual_ai_ . Previous Head of Product @AWSCloud GameTech. @UnderscoreVC Core Partner.
Seattle, WA
Joined July 2012
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Gave a talk last night at the Claude Community Meetup here in Auckland on what I built for my best friend Bruce who died of cancer seven weeks ago.
I built an AI system to process all of his medical data from three different hospitals,
and created a 3D digital twin that realtime produced audio visual explainers of what was happening in his body, we could then ask questions and receive decision support from a total system of recorded + multiple AI models as we interfaced with doctors and nurses to make critical decisions day by day during his final days and hours.
Video of the talk incoming, I’ll share more soon.
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we do things not because they are easy, but because fable oneshotted the first 80% so we thought it would take an hour max.
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We ran Kimi K3 through 3 agent harnesses (Claude Code, Hermes, Kimi Code) on 28 identical tasks.
All 3 harnesses completed the tasks at similar success rates, but the interesting story is token efficiency: the same task cost up to 30x more tokens depending on the harness. 🧵🧵
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Agree, 100% we shouldn’t be tying ourselves in knots. Even bigger issue is the brilliant talent we are scaring away from other countries with our immigration policies for great talent.
This is concerning. For the first time, a Chinese model Kimi K3 has taken #1 on the Frontend Code Arena and is scoring at or near the frontier on other benchmarks.
Meanwhile America is tying itself in knots: politicians and bureaucrats are banning new data centers, piling on state regulations, and pushing for new federal agencies to pre-approve frontier models.
This is how you lose the AI race. The rest of the world won’t play by our rules if we bog ourselves down. Permissionless innovation is how America won the internet and became the technological envy of the world. We can do it again with AI -- while addressing risks in a targeted way -- or we’ll watch our lead evaporate.
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New York is the city that never sleeps. San Francisco is the city that goes to happy hour, gets a burrito to go, and is in bed by 8:30.
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The biggest bullshit move by DHS in its history. So everyone on a O1 or H1B visa would have to stop working legally in the US, go back to their country and wait for years of backlog? This includes top scientists in our universities, founders of billion dollar companies (at least 3 just in our portfolio would be affected by the way). And if we look at individual countries it becomes even more bs. Indians would have to wait decades. Russians don’t have anywhere to go (there is no US embassy in Russia, hello?).
This is the worst imaginable way to disrupt important work for the country and pretend you’re fighting some loophole.
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I'm excited to be speaking at the Software Factory Initiative on April 21 in Seattle. Sign up today if you want to get your hands dirty building your own software factory!
actual.ai/softwarefactory
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“How many of you want to try this?”
Live demoing something new you’ve been working for 3 months is scary.
You’ve been drinking all the koolaid but until you put it in the hands of a stranger, you can’t know. Yet, the @AITinkerers crowd came in strong.
Im even more excited to ship what’s in store here! For those of you that saw the demo, it’ll be live soon :)
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Actual AI is an @ Orange DAO W25 startup.
Actual AI is Cursor for engineering managers. Their AI-native Engineering Management gives engineering managers superpowers
Founded by @commercejohn, follow along at @actual_ai_
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What an amazing demo (youtu.be/xc0TVPNqa00?list=PL…) by @CommerceJohn at The GenAI Collective SF Demo Night, showcasing @actual_ai_ performance review automation solution!
As teams scale, managing performance becomes way too complex. What caught my attention was how AI can now help us analyze developer productivity patterns to identify both high performers and potential areas of concern, while maintaining fairness and objectivity.
Fascinating to see AI transforming traditional performance management into a data-driven process. Thanks John for sharing this innovation with our community!
The next Demo Night is happening on Wednesday, January 29, at @awscloud GenAI Loft, hosted by @GenAICollective and @ProductHunt — everyone is invited! Register now here: go.dataphoenix.info/SFDemoNi…. If you'd like to showcase your demo, submissions close the Thursday before the event at 11:59pm — apply here: go.dataphoenix.info/SFDemoNi….
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Well, that's surprising... @drupal had 5x the estimated developer effort of @WordPress last year (see thread). I guess that what comes of community division...
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The @arbitrum DAO has reaffirmed the terms of @timechange and @CommerceJohn to continue as Council members on the Gaming Catalyst Council (GCP)!
Their gaming and VC expertise will help drive innovation in the space💪
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the new ai post from @sequoia is excellent. sharing best screenshots below
here's the tweet:
the opportunity lies at the application layer.
sequoiacap.com/article/gener…
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Chris Parry saved the lives of more than 400 Ukrainian civilians before the Russians killed him.
theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…
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Below is Steve Jobs announcing a new product, “WiFi-connected socks” in his eloquent voice. I’m sold.
The Black Mirror episode “Be Right Back” describes a technology that revives people from their digital footprint. Where we are today:
- LLMs prompted by past chat logs can do a great job. For example, @character_ai can simulate various persona for you to chat with.
- Highly realistic, personalized speech synthesis has made big progress, and will reach perfection in 1-2 years at most. @elevenlabs
- Face simulation with natural emotions is much harder. @UnrealEngine introduces a beta service called “MetaHuman” that may fill the gap.
- Physical robot of your loved ones is completely out of reach for today’s tech. Even if it’s doable, there would be huge legal and moral red flags.
Demo made using @forever_voices
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Times when it’s hard to concentrate on a conversation
1 When there’s one roast potato left
2 When someone’s making tea like an amateur
3 When a guest sits in your usual sofa spot
4 While noticing a table in a busy pub is about to become free
5 When someone has food on their face
