4x Founder (CEO/CTO/CPO), ex IQT CIO, Building the next big AI enterprise product.
Portola Valley, CA
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Is anyone else noticing this? Wearables seem to be having a resurgence, but none of it feels real. There’s a lot of hype and just as much slop from companies with nothing tangible to show. I think the wearables bubble will burst before any other bubble predicted in the last decade, and take the rest down with it.
How do you memorize a talk without notes?
I built a small open source page for it. Paste your script and hide one word from the end of each line. Once you've got it, hide the next. Keep going until you're down to the first letter and saying it from memory :-)
#opensource
Top filler sentences for AI in 2026:
- Fair question.
- I'm checking rather than guessing.
- That's a great point.
- Great catch! I shouldn't have [issue].
Maybe vibe coding will no longer have to be annoying as hell from those around you!
Agent tip: give your agents a shared home. I use Google Drive (Notion works too) as storage that all my agents read from and write to. When I want to dig in, I'm in a UI I already know. The rest of the time, I don't have to go in at all.
Indecision does not expand options, and moving past them does not deliver speed. Each open question produces dependencies, edge cases, and failures. Your product carries the weight of all decisions that were never made.
seanshadmand.com/2026/10/14/…
Did you know you can @mention one Grok bot from another? I've got a bunch of them, one for email, one for social, one for events. Now they just hand work to each other.
Anthropic's @felixrieseberg just dropped the coding interview for his team, because Claude now beats candidates on the little React tests. He's hiring off small prototypes that show taste and judgment instead.
Right call. When code is cheap, what's left is deciding what to build and what to cut.
nitter.cf/felixrieseberg/status/…
My take from last week: seanshadmand.com/2026/10/22/…
The coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic. I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal. I removed it from loops this month.
I have a spicy, optimistic take - I think there's an opportunity for junior engineers: felixrieseberg.com/hunger-be…
The second group isn't lazy. They were trained by a system that rewarded waiting for clear instructions, and AI quietly made deciding what to work on part of everyone's job. (lack of decision making has always been an issue, but covered up more by human emotion and hierarchy)
I'm starting to sense a divide in the tech industry:
- People thriving on autonomy who are reinventing how they work and what tools they use with AI: LOTS of work, but they're enjoying it and getting very efficient
- People used to being mentored / trained / or simply told what to do and how. Frustrated with the lack of guidance from management on what to do with AI; also frustrated by seeing some of their peers thriving; increasingly bitter about AI and the state of the industry, as a whole
Neither group seems to be aware that there's another group, or have empathy for the other group
Hey @claudeai, you made a product that writes code and have billions of $$, yet you can't transfer my account, subscription or credits to a my new email OR give me a refund on my purches credits. EVEN THOUGH I will simply resubscribe and buy them on the new account?!
A fight doesn't happen inside a doctrine. Neither does building your business. Mastery isn't obedience or rebellion. It's merging what you know with who you are and the reality in front of you.
seanshadmand.com/2026/10/14/…
Sean Shadmand retweeted
Designer-made agent skills are everywhere this week.
This is the context and the checklist I'd give my agent before installing one.
The skills going around:
- elayadesign/ai-design-skills on GitHub, by @elayadesigns.
Two skills. landing-page-design asks intake questions, then builds a landing page with its own type, spacing and motion system. design-to-motion turns a static design into an animated showcase, exported as MP4 and GIF. Works in Claude Code, Cursor and Codex.
- Leonxlnx/taste-skill by @LexnLin. Skills that give coding agents taste: art direction, reference images and a browser check.
- Nutlope/hallmark, made by Together AI. An anti-slop design skill that checks the page against AI tells, like an eyebrow above every heading.
Before you trust a design skill:
1. Read the SKILL.md yourself. A skill is just a file.
2. Check the credits. Does it name the skills it borrowed from?
3. Check what it runs. Writing files is low risk. Installing packages or running scripts needs a closer look.
4. Try it on a throwaway branch first.
5. Find the section where its taste lives (fonts, colors, spacing, motion) and swap in yours.
Prompt to paste into your agent:
"Read the SKILL.md at [repo URL]. Tell me what it does, every command it runs, what it credits, and which parts conflict with my design system. Don't install anything yet."
The first skills I installed this year, I rebuilt to my own taste right away.
What's the first thing you check before installing a skill?
Sean Shadmand retweeted
Making your AI agent a user of your design system.
When you ask your coding agent to build a screen, it's supposed to read your components and your docs to decide how and what to build. It needs four things from your design system.
Review time is the new build time. Agents made "can we build it" cheap, so the expensive question is "should this exist at all." That's still a person's call.
Agents ship faster. Judgment still decides what is worth shipping. @bentlegen on staying human in the loop.
Apollo's Torsten Slok: since 2022, Mag 7 revenue per employee went from about $550K to nearly $800K. The rest of the S&P 500? Flat.
The tech isn't the bottleneck. Habits, trust, and someone accountable for the agents are. You can't adopt AI cold turkey.
benzinga.com/markets/tech/26…
A weekend side project: I wanted everything my agents do in one place, just to track effort and usage. So I built Penopta and open sourced it. It's lightweight, has a Mac app, and splits work by plans and projects. When I lose something, or need my time on a plan, it's there.
penopta.com
Code: github.com/sshadmand/penopta…
I think it sort of is a lot like beacon.sh/pricing. All I would have to do is turn the shared history into skills I suppose.
