AI Engineer @StandardFleet, previously @bytebot_ai (YC S21) data/ml @google, iOS @apple
Joined October 2010
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Carl Atupem retweeted
people conflate a software factory with an all or nothing human approach
the point isn’t to completely remove humans from the loop.
the goal is to standardize the production of software and move humans to the key points in the process.
Carl Atupem retweeted
Stripe -> 1 API for any payment rail
Huggingface -> 1 library to download any model
OpenRouter -> 1 API to use any model
Plaid → 1 API to get data from any bank
Twilio → 1 API for voice/text/etc
$200B of market cap in unified interfaces
there's a lesson in here
Carl Atupem retweeted
Tomorrow will be my last day at Google after 27 years, and watching it grow from 25 people to 190,000+ has been an amazing journey. Below is a note I shared with many people internally at Google today. An excerpt is:
It has been an absolute pleasure to work with you and to help build some of the most widely used and impactful products of all time. As a kid, I dreamed of helping build software that would be used by many people, and Google now has thirteen products used by more than a billion people (amazing!). Our work has had a tremendous impact in the world, and I have been lucky enough to collaborate and form friendships with many colleagues that I deeply admire, respect, and enjoy. It still brings me joy every time I see people out in the world using our products to find information, handle email, translate documents, watch videos, learn new things, navigate and understand the physical world, browse the web, use their phone, run large-scale computations on our infrastructure, ride in an autonomous vehicle, or perform complex tasks with the help of our AI systems. I hope you all share this sense of joy, because it is a shared accomplishment! Thank you to all of my colleagues at Google over many years!
Now I'm excited to go start @DiscoLoopAI with my longtime friends and colleagues @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML, and @quocleix.
(Updated post: slightly redacted to not have some personal info)
Carl Atupem retweeted
This is the one I've been quiet about for months.
We're live on Product Hunt today. I built this because I was tired of losing leads in the gaps between demo, onboarding, and support.
Take a look and tell me what you think 🦆
Here it is 👇
producthunt.com/products/pee…
Carl Atupem retweeted
YOU CAN’T STARVE YOUR WAY TO GREATNESS
It’s amazing to see how much companies are able to get done with 2 people today.
It’s good to be frugal but I will always remember what my own investor, the legendary @davidsze at Greylock, told me: “Gokul, you can’t starve your way to greatness.”
Founders: don’t let frugality descend into starvation mode, and don’t shy away from making high ROI investments, even if they are large. Greatness demands smart high conviction investment of capital, time and people.
Carl Atupem retweeted
Unpopular opinion: Anthropic timed Fable 5 bans perfectly so it goes straight to API usage.
Carl Atupem retweeted
> the legend tweets something 6-24 months after it is conventional wisdom and well-trod in certain circles
> the world starts paying attention
I can count at least 4 times this has happened with Andrej specifically, likely more. distribution really is everything!
your ego thinks this is a blackpill: why should they get credit for the thing others have been doing for years?
but it's actually a whitepill: your alpha has a 6-24 month lead time, anon
This is a new paradigm for interacting with Claude that is significantly more "inline" with all the other human activity org-wide. Once you do all of the under the hood engineering work to make this "just work" (e.g. across tools, integrations, compute environments, memory, security, etc.), Claude basically joins the team in a seamless way - you can talk to it as you would talk to a person and it can help with a very large variety of workloads.
Imo this is the 3rd major redesign of LLM UIUX. The first paradigm was that the LLM is a website you go to, the second was that it is an app you download to your computer. This third one is that it is a self-contained, persistent, asynchronous entity with org-wide tools and context, working alongside teams of humans. It really takes a while to wrap your head around it, but it works and it is awesome.
Fix your rate limits smh
The reason this 3rd paradigm works: the infrastructure was already there. Slack was purpose-built for open, shared work — where teams, tools, and context live together, and collaborate in the open. AI doesn't change how work happens — we just gave it a home where AI actually works.
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Been working on this at my company and seeing a lot of other startups build something similar
This is a new paradigm for interacting with Claude that is significantly more "inline" with all the other human activity org-wide. Once you do all of the under the hood engineering work to make this "just work" (e.g. across tools, integrations, compute environments, memory, security, etc.), Claude basically joins the team in a seamless way - you can talk to it as you would talk to a person and it can help with a very large variety of workloads.
Imo this is the 3rd major redesign of LLM UIUX. The first paradigm was that the LLM is a website you go to, the second was that it is an app you download to your computer. This third one is that it is a self-contained, persistent, asynchronous entity with org-wide tools and context, working alongside teams of humans. It really takes a while to wrap your head around it, but it works and it is awesome.
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Carl Atupem retweeted
Made a demo of Pulp, a framework with a CLI and Claude plugin to translate Figma and other AI-generated designs into native apps and audio plugins. Output targets AU, VST3, CLAP, and standalone apps, runs on Skia + Dawn/WebGPU, and no browser or webview. youtube.com/watch?v=CSa_ZACB…
Carl Atupem retweeted
For almost everyone, computers were too complicated for far too long. Smartphones fixed that for people by narrowing what they could do. For the last ~5 months AI has done something similar for people who already knew their way around computers by making the hard parts disappear.
Congrats @asmengistu and @_agreaves!
High-quality screens in seconds.
Use it standalone.
Export to FlutterFlow.
Whatever works for you.
Oh, and it's free.
designer.flutterflow.io
Let us know what you think!
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Carl Atupem retweeted
1/ At Standard Fleet: our iOS app for fleet management represents YEARS of development.
A new engineer ported it to Android in 7 hours.
As CEO, I don't code much anymore—mostly customers and product. This broke my brain.
So I spent the weekend vibe-coding. Here's what I learned:
