AI Prototyping for product teams | Co-founder @ Alloy (YC23’), prev @canva @atlassian
Sydney
Joined June 2010
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Christian Iacullo retweeted
had 30 anz founders over at mine in Russian Hill thursday night for poker, sushi + drinks
thank you @silkkadala (@blackbirdvc) and @explorersal (@KingRiverVC) for bankrolling it
I’ve been trying to do more of this, my current workflow is to use the Claude GH integration and comment “@claude review”, I then eyeball the code real quick to make sure there’s nothing egregious and if tests pass and the AI review looks good, it gets merged
It takes a while to build the confidence, but there's no future where you're manually reviewing every line of agent code. Not much acceleration in that. You need adversarial agent reviews, you need automated testing, and maybe you spot check. That's it. From prompt to production!
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Christian Iacullo retweeted
Today, Heidi (@tryheidi) is announcing US$340M in new funding: a US$100M Series C led by our very first believer, @blackbirdvc, alongside @phxcrt, @p72vc and @HeadlineVC and a US$240M growth investment from @generalcatalyst's Customer Value Fund.
The round values Heidi at US$900M.
Five years ago I sat in a hospital cafe in scrubs after a night on call and pitched Blackbird. I worked with so many incredible doctors burdened by the work created from our care. I believed that every clinician would partner with AI, to handle that workload so they could get to the next patient.
Where Heidi is today is way beyond what I could have imagined then. Our team has grown to almost 600 people. We’ve supported over 175 million patient visits in some of the world’s leading and most highly regulated healthcare systems. That only comes from an incredibly talented and hard working team driven by the mission to double the world’s healthcare capacity.
In this next chapter Heidi is becoming the AI Care Partner I imagined. Handling all the work that a visit creates for every clinician and extending what we can accomplish in a day.
Next week we’ll show you what that looks like. It’s what we’ve been building towards since the very beginning.
Christian Iacullo retweeted
Tesla Cybercab lands in Sydney today as part of its national tour.
No pedals, no steering wheel, purely vision based autonomous architecture.
While it is strictly a static showroom display for now, it brings an uncomfortable conversation right to our doorstep: Australian Design Rules and local regulatory frameworks are nowhere near ready for driverless transport at scale.
Hardware is here. The legislation is lagging.
Who is heading in to inspect it in person this week?
@Tesla @teslasi @TeslaAUNZ
Christian Iacullo retweeted
Australian Insurance provider @Zurich is now offering cheaper insurance for Teslas with FSD (Supervised) activated — an Australian first 🇦🇺
Zurich says Tesla data shows FSD-equipped cars have 7x fewer major or minor collisions than regular EVs. – at Australia
Christian Iacullo retweeted
People still aren't quite pricing in how revolutionary FSD is going to be to human life, and how transport works now.
Anecdote: I go pick up the Bangalorean at the Marin ferry to be chivalrous, but really, I don't touch the wheel at all and just put on FSD and sit in the driver's seat the entire way listening to podcasts.
There's no reason for me to be in the car. If I could, I'd just punch in the round trip into the routing, and have the car go pick her up and drive her back. It's good enough at this point to do it, just the law and custom is in the way. Humans don't need to drive anymore.
Now imagine how much of your life would change if you could send, get picked up by, or send off somewhere a comfy box with wheels (and networked screens that run AI) at any point or place in your life.
Not Uber, with the wait and get on and share a space and maybe the car stinks. Your own personal mini-lounge and storage space that you can send off or make appear anywhere.
Kids now take themselves to and back from school. Parking no longer a hassle as you can dispatch the car to find itself a place to wait (or even do robotaxi work and make you some cash). You can run anything across town, or have anything sent to you in real-time. Friend flying in? Hey, will send you a car to the airport and have it drop you off at our dinner venue. Heck, you can take a nap or do a meeting inside your pod on wheels if you're in between places.
It'll be this new mobile third place that most everyone will have, while nobody thinks about the stress or time wasted of just staring at the car in front of you and keeping it in a lane (often in slow traffic). As a side benefit of FSD, you totally tune out all the surrounding cars and aggravation associated with dealing with erratic human drivers. Someone cuts you off? Eh, you did it to AI. Someone honks...you're yelling at a bot man. Who cares? Cortisol levels just plunge when FSD is running things since you're no longer the mediating consciousness.
It probably sounds like SF scifi hokum to those who still drive, but FSD knowers know how it just utterly changes everything about moving through the world. Going back to driving feels like having to giddy-up a horse....something nobody would do if they could avoid it. Things are about to get weird.
I had a blast today at our #ProductCon booth (hosted by @productschool).
The huge number of interactions I had with motivated product folks in the space was super energising. – at New York, USA
Mark describes my thoughts exactly, I’m in San Francisco now and it’s booming, a fantastic place to grow your startup.
This budget has a sent a message to startup founders that Australia would prefer if we operated elsewhere.
Look, I get that we need to provide for the welfare of all Australians in the budget, but is taxing startup founders the way? @JEChalmers @AlboMP
How do we make Australia more prosperous?
How do we encourage people to build businesses, take risks and compete with the rest of the world?
Our politicians and government are spending the money that comes from our work, our risk and our effort. So we should demand more from them.
More innovation.
More ambition.
More bold decisions.
As Australians, we should expect to have one of the highest standards of living in the world.
Let’s demand this from the people who lead us.
Christian Iacullo retweeted
Introducing Alloy, the Cloud Playground for Product Teams.
Prototyping tools are dead. Build with your codebase in the cloud, and deploy in one click.
> Start from your real app and codebase.
> Cloud sessions with instant preview links.
> Push code to GitHub.
Available in early access.
Christian Iacullo retweeted
Champions are built long before the trophy is lifted.
Congrats @LandoNorris on a remarkable championship, and to @OscarPiastri for an incredible year that shows the future of racing is bright.
And hats off to @ZBrownCEO for leading @McLarenF1 back to the top. Proud to support the team through this historic moment. 🧡🏆
