Declan Kramper

so power to you. the one that has it all.

i fkin love whiteboards

For the love of the game

Engineering, not consulting

sales

thought it was so over but then i got 8 hours of sleep

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so cool going from what should be to what is been reading about how successful ai transformation requires redesigning the process itself and v clearly true "well, theoretically we should be doing..." "yeah well ideally...." well guess what, we can do ideally now. and we are. edited to add caveat that it's still valuable to understand why it's done this way to begin with tho, since business still went on/survived with current way > so what will you do with this new thing once you have it? why is that valuable? maybe some things really don't matter. or at least, lower priority compared to thing B. => discovery

self improving software or big brother

Makers, not takers

first make it work, then make it better

yesterday I sat down at probably the last new coffee shop on a 4 year journey that has amounted to visiting 53 different Chicago coffee shops many having been visited many times some having closed or rebranded i like coffee shops. you can be anyone at a coffee shop. sometimes tho I spend too much time deciding which coffee shop to go to. So I made this little website as an excuse to try designing fast + slow generative experiences that would help me make that decision declankramper.com/coffee it uses the new OpenAI decisions api for the fast experience picking up coffee shops as you type based on keywords ---- and then a standard LLM call for the slow experience when you’re input has grown more complex, it’s time to press enter ---- some other decisions along the way that were fun - every time you hit enter, its a new message in the thread. but a conversation didn’t feel right, so instead claude haiku will classify each message into keywords and only display your latest after each message - on mobile the balls wanted to move, so they move with your phone - and shaking it is the magic 8 ball but for which coffee shop to go to ---- creds to Stefan for the OG balls design nitter.cf/heystefan_/status/2101…

when making a product decision, it can first feel comforting to hedge i see why agents like hedging so much but your job is to decide else its confusion/fatigue for user and mediocre product gotta get to the point where keeping hedges are actually uncomfortable because

if the screen starting to scare you, it’s definitely been scaring them

so good so fast posthog thinks its rage-clicks

Queens gambit, Johnny manziel, flu game

been thinking about this. i like the "pre-built" part. because if the argument of vertical (agent) companies against labs/incumbents rides on the vertical/embedded company knowing the work better, then you shouldn't need to necessarily generate everything from scratch because the work/customer/problem is understood even in future when generation probably happens indistinguishably from static, there's still a lag between discovery of new problem and understanding of it so then maybe that lag is handled by generation, then once closed, the understanding is generalized back into static for the others

visuals visuals visuals

Been thinking some thoughts regarding AI adoption and what those products would look like/do Relatedly have been seeing more companies lately (@tryramp's Glass, @YakLabsAI's Bonsai, @GetEnergy_) start to tackle similar problem of general AI adoption in businesses today via new product surfaces