Oxford Comma Champion | Founder, Jeremy Smith Advisory | GTM & business strategy for the agentic era
Denver, CO
Joined April 2009
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i think a lot about new grads starting eng jobs right now and how insane the growth curve can/will be, especially because i'd otherwise be graduating right now.
i've heard a lot of my peers be pessimistic about the opportunities for new grads in this new era of engineering. "we're cooked".
i think it's quite the opposite: once you get an opportunity, this is the best time yet to be a new grad in tech. the rate of learning and exposure to different parts of the stack have 10x'd. the diverse types of work you can contribute to is much broader and the level of responsibility one can take on has grown exponentially.
there's a risk of using those tools to avoid understanding the tech decisions, system design, etc. i think that will lead to a bad time. but people who can use them as opportunity to do mass experimentation, iterate faster, and gain deeper understanding, they will flourish.
optimism doesn't guarantee success, but it can change the course.
Smoking a brisket today, so I had my Grok Bot (@grok) hook my @ThermoWorks thermometers up to itself. It found an open-source connector, wired it in, and built me a pitmaster bot that watches the probes and pings me for the stall and the pull. Built it in 5 minutes! 🔥
Hey @TraegerGrills, my AI assistant is already watching this brisket through @ThermoWorks, because someone reverse-engineered their cloud. Your grills are the one part of the cook it can't see. A public API or an official MCP server would let AI assistants check grill temp, pellet level and cook status, and warn me before I run out of pellets mid-cook. Please build one! 🔥
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Sign up to hear the latest on @bot! I'll be sharing some of the ways proactivity has supercharged @bot, should be a good time :)
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Just started using @bot ~2 hours ago and I have a Chief of Staff and 12 agents deployed. This shit is INSANE! Well done @cursor_ai @X 🚀
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Jeremy Smith retweeted
I will believe AI is driving productivity gains in the old economy when a front desk person checks me into a hotel with less than fifteen hundred keystrokes and mouse clicks.
Jeremy Smith retweeted
Last week, @Flexport released an AI agent that can audit bills from shippers and truckers against the actual logs to ensure its customers are invoiced correctly.
The product was just an idea 3 days before.
"We probably pivoted 30% to 40% of our engineers now just to building agents," founder Ryan Petersen (@typesfast) says.
"There's way less planning than there used to be at Flexport in the roadmap. It used to be a one year strategic plan. Now you're like, ‘Alright, let's go see if you can make this work, come back to me two days later.' And it works, because of AI.”
Catch the full interview on The Upstarts Podcast:
YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=1JamC0Wv…
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1S1…
Stunning sunset at our home in Colorado this evening ❤️
@KylieBearseWX I didn’t see this on the forecast!
Jeremy Smith retweeted
“Fining these teams $100,000 is like worrying about mouse manure when you’re up to your ears in elephant shit” 😂😂 ~ Coach Saban
AMEN COACH #CollegeGameDay
@DENAirport Are there plans to improve the parking experience at DEN? Both in the number of garage spots available as well as technology to find spots more easily (similar to @DFWAirport’s system dfwairport.com/park/terminal…). Thanks!
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Jeremy Smith retweeted
Chat with MLX 🚀 a high-performance macOS app linking your local docs to a custom large language model (LLM) on your machine 🧵
Now open-source in beta!
github.com/mlx-chat/mlx-chat…
Collaboratively built by @itsstock & @parkersmith
Jeremy Smith retweeted
I’ve seen what you describe. Growing aggressively to $100mm, and all of the sudden growth slows. It’s really painful.
In my experience, the number one reason this happens is fear of change. What ever set of variables led to the product/market fit that took you to $100mm become sacrosanct. These “sacred cows” become limiting constraints which hold you stuck on a local maximum. Growth goes from 30% to 20% then to 11% or even 8%. And product tweaks or pricing tweaks that you have discussed for over 5 years just can’t find their way to the market. Everyone is afraid those changes will hurt things. But you are already decaying.
Change is scary. So is flat-lining.
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Flexport.org's first aid shipments to Maui underway. Details to follow. Sad we didn't get there faster.
Ik ben thuis @ Hotel Okura Amsterdam instagram.com/p/Cky06eLOmpp/… – at Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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SpaceX has launched so many Starlink satellites. Check out this live coverage map satellitemap.space/
What sets high performing engineering teams apart from the rest? Join @LaunchDarkly and @RealGeneKim as we dive into how high performing engineering team approach problems!
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