Ian Cairns
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Building @freeplay_ai. Past work: Product & Design @Firstbase / Product lead @TwitterAPI / @Gnip / govtech / @developmentseed. Proud papa. 👧👦👧 Grateful.
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Joined March 2007
I really appreciated how thoughtful @ajitvarma is on all these topics. Thanks so much for coming on the show! 🙌
🎙️ We talked with @firefox VP of Product @ajitvarma about building AI products, privacy-preserving AI, and the future of the browser. This post is a great listen for anyone in tech who's interested in a thoughtful conversation about the future of the open web. It's also full
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Wow. Twitter posts are now 20% of what they were at the high water mark. Elon reports 100 million a day on the latest All In interview. It used to be 500M+. It’s felt like there’s a lot less content, but I hadn’t heard it quantified yet.
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Beast mode. Such an amazing business.
Just posted Q3 earnings. We delivered our first-ever $100B quarter driven by double-digit growth across every major part of our business. (Five years ago, our quarterly revenue was at $50B🚀) Our full-stack approach to AI is driving real momentum and we’re shipping at speed.
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Thanks @surojit for coming on the show! This was a fun conversation, not a lot of people have been building enterprise agents since early 2023.
🎙️ Why talk about "AI Employees" instead of agents? Maybe the paradigm of employee feedback and performance management is the future of agent observability and evaluation... On our latest episode of Deployed we talk with @surojit, founder of @Ema_Unlimited, about his lessons
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PWV team has been fantastic to work with. Check them out. 🙌
New achievement! Preston-Werner Ventures (through which I did my angel investing) has become PWV™ ( https://t.co/FJ7VGqwv3A) and I’m raising a venture fund targeting $100M to lead pre-seed and seed rounds in today’s most exciting software- and AI-driven companies.
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The pendulum swings.
Our top focus is to enable builders by opening up our developer platform. We will also roll out a brand new developer experience with a revamped Dev Console. Those selected will be the first to test it out. 🔥
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We've taken "enterprise readiness" serious from day 1 at @freeplay_ai. So proud of the progress we've made here. 💪 Congrats team and nice work driving all this @ericwryan!
Pleased to share that @freeplay_ai is HIPAA-compliant and our SOC 2 Type II is renewed. We’re supporting Fortune 100 teams with multi-region, private-cloud deployments. Enterprise-grade controls, strong encryption, on-prem options. Details at:
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Sam: Why do you sweat the design details so much, and so early in the process? Jony: People sense when you’re careless. You know pretty quickly if something is just designed to make money off you. I also think you can generally sense care. (Paraphrasing)
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ICYMI the AGI is not here yet. @GregKamradt gave a great talk about ArcAGI and how the do evals for complex tasks. Tl;dr - can the model do a hard task as efficiently as a human?
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Evals are so hot right now. 🔥 Attendance is about 2.5x seating capacity for DevDay evals talk.
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Best demos are always by @romainhuet 🙌 Used Codex to generate an MCP server that controls the lights and camera, and control it with a voice agent using Realtime API. He told it to point the lights at us and take a picture, without writing any code. Et voila. You can just
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More rare than the urban moose in my last post. A CVI CitiCar. It’s electric! 💡
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What wildlife did you see on your drive to work today? 🫎 This is Broadway & Mapleton in Boulder at 7 am. cc @mitchellbyars
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Just joined a phone call with one other person and literally 5 AI recording agents tried to join. 😆 This is the future of B2B SaaS.
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Get all the podcast links and check out the summary here. https://t.co/p0J6cf56WL
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Our take @freeplay_ai on the evals vs. A/B testing debate, fwiw: It depends. 🤷🏻♂️ Coding agents (and consumer chatbots) are open-ended enough that A/B testing might work, at least more easily than traditional evals. But narrower AI applications work great with structured
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🎙️ New Deployed episode with @ryancarson, "Builder in Residence" at @AmpCode. It's a great convo about building code agents and building as a solo founder at the same time, and it's refreshingly honest. Case in point, on evals for coding agents: "We do not have a set of evals
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