I think it’s time for an intro... Hi! I’m Mannendri👋🏽 → I’m 21, born and raised in NYC, Dominican 🇩🇴 → Graduated from @MIT this year, studied Artificial Intelligence & Decision Making with a concentration in Anthropology → Founding eng @ambral_ai (YC S25), based in Brooklyn → Prev interned at @Google and @amazon → Big on playing soccer, basketball, and lifting, always down to try a new sport → Been reading since I was in the womb, especially into epic fantasy books right now → Currently interested in the full agent stack, from building useful agentic systems to environments, evals, and post training Love meeting new people, so if any of this sounds interesting to you, let’s connect :)

me: “Okay, fix the bug” astra: “Done” me: “did you run the tests?" astra: "no"

tfw when you prompt claude to prompt yourself...call it promptception

I really like how Muse shows a log of the actions it takes. It's something I appreciate about coding agents and cool to have it in a personal assistant UI

Top tier analogy

I’m curious to hear more dev perspectives on best use cases of Astra

muse or instinct?

You can really just do things... After spending a couple months at my office building and not getting to know anyone else in the building outside of my company, I decided a few days ago that I would conduct an experiment. Create a WhatsApp, put up a poster, and see who bites. Preliminary results of this experiment: 19 people and counting. I wanted to create a way to meet the people I share an elevator with and learn more about what they do / who they are. The results are promising so far! Stay tuned for an update on what will hopefully be a building-wide meet and greet.

Average PR size nowadays

This is a really good read and I highly resonate with section 3 on the ai era that we’re in. Social media has young people on their toes about which company to join next or which trend to latch on to because it incites constant self-comparison against others in a way that prevents true meaningful progress in one “line”. And I have to admit, I’ve been guilty of this feeling too. It’s difficult to stay focused in a world that’s evolving at such a rapid pace and where you see the people leading AI research organizations gradually becoming one year younger…by the year, haha. This is a good reminder that success rewards patience, focus, and commitment. Staying in one line.

My subtle flex is having stretch marks from building boulder shoulders

Just signed up for a half marathon... this might be the start of the next stage in my male fitness arc. any tips?

I'm tired of claude writing extraneous code in prod for the sake of making a test case pass

Surround yourself with people who make you feel like there's always something new to learn. Find a positive feedback loop for your curiosity.