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Founder backed by VC, building AI-driven tech without a technical background. In the chaos of a startup pivot- learning, evolving, and embracing change.
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Oct 14 7 tweets 4 min read
Meta just did the unthinkable.

They figured out how to train AI agents without rewards, human demos, or supervision and it actually works better than both.

It’s called 'Early Experience', and it quietly kills the two biggest pain points in agent training:

→ Human demonstrations that don’t scale
→ Reinforcement learning that’s expensive and unstable

Instead of copying experts or chasing reward signals, agents now:

- Take their own actions
- Observe what happens
- Learn directly from consequences — *no external rewards needed*

The numbers are wild:

✅ +18.4% on web navigation (WebShop)
✅ +15.0% on complex planning (TravelPlanner)
✅ +13.3% on scientific reasoning (ScienceWorld)
✅ Works across **8 environments**

And when you add RL afterward?

🔥 +6.4% better than traditional pipelines.

Two key ideas make it work:

1. Implicit World Modeling - agents predict what happens next, forming an internal world model.

2. Self-Reflection - they compare mistakes to experts and explain why the expert choice was better.

Both scale. Both are reward-free.

Efficiency is absurd:

1/8 of expert data
86.9% lower cost
Works from 3B → 70B models

This isn’t incremental.

It’s the bridge between imitation learning and true autonomous experience.

AI agents can now teach themselves - no human hand-holding required.Image The problem with current AI agents is brutal.

Imitation Learning: Agents only see expert demos.

When they mess up, they can't recover because they never learned what happens when you take wrong actions.

RL: Needs verifiable rewards. Most real-world environments don't have them.Early Experience solves both.
Oct 11 7 tweets 4 min read
Stanford just pulled off something wild 🤯

They made models smarter without touching a single weight.

The paper’s called Agentic Context Engineering (ACE), and it flips the whole fine-tuning playbook.

Instead of retraining, the model rewrites itself.

It runs a feedback loop write, reflect, edit until its own prompt becomes a living system.

Think of it as giving the LLM memory, but without changing the model.
Just evolving the context.

Results are stupid good:

+10.6% better than GPT-4 agents on AppWorld
+8.6% on finance reasoning
86.9% lower cost and latency

The trick?
Everyone’s been obsessed with clean, minimal prompts.
ACE shows the opposite: long, dense, self-growing prompts win.

Fine-tuning was about changing the model.
ACE is about teaching it to change *itself.*

This isn’t prompt engineering anymore.
It’s prompt evolution.Image Here’s how ACE works 👇

It splits the model’s brain into 3 roles:

Generator - runs the task
Reflector - critiques what went right or wrong
Curator - updates the context with only what matters

Each loop adds delta updates small context changes that never overwrite old knowledge.

It’s literally the first agent framework that grows its own prompt.Image
Oct 9 8 tweets 3 min read
Holy shit...Stanford just built a system that converts research papers into working AI agents.

It’s called Paper2Agent, and it literally:

• Recreates the method in the paper
• Applies it to your own dataset
• Answers questions like the author

This changes how we do science forever.

Let me explain ↓Image The problem is obvious to anyone who’s ever read a “methods” paper:

You find the code. It breaks.
You try the tutorial. Missing dependencies.
You email the authors. Silence.

Science moves fast, but reproducibility is a joke.

Paper2Agent fixes that. It automates the whole conversion paper → runnable AI agent.
Oct 6 8 tweets 3 min read
I just read the most important AI paper of 2025.

A research team achieved what OpenAI couldn't with $100M using just 78 training samples.

The entire industry is about to flip upside down.

Here's everything you need to know: Image Today, most AI labs follow the same playbook: more data = better agents.

LIMI's researchers say: that's wasteful, unnecessary, and about to change.

Strategic curation beats brute force scaling for agentic intelligence.

They proved it with numbers that will make you rethink everything.

The Agency Efficiency Principle is simple:

Machine autonomy emerges from strategic curation of high-quality demonstrations, not data abundance.

For agentic tasks, quality ≠ quantity.Image
Oct 3 7 tweets 3 min read
I finally understand why Claude 4.5 Sonnet is dominating right now.

After testing it on real marketing campaigns, app builds, and content creation... it blew my mind.

Here are 5 powerful ways to use the new Claude model to automate the tedious tasks: 1. Marketing Automation

Here’s my marketing automation prompt:

"You are now my AI marketing strategist.

Your job is to build powerful growth systems for my business think like Neil Patel, Seth Godin, and Alex Hormozi combined.

I want you to:

Build full-funnel strategies (top to bottom)

Write ad copy, landing pages, and email sequences

Recommend automation tools, lead magnets, and channel tactics

Prioritize fast ROI, data-driven decisions, and creative thinking

Always ask clarifying questions before answering. Think long-term and execute short-term.

Do marketing like experts do. Ask: “What would Hormozi, Seth, or Neil do?"

Copy the prompt and paste it in Claude new chat.

After that, start asking it questions.
Sep 26 8 tweets 3 min read
Every AI agent demo you've seen is basically fraud.

Google just dropped their internal agent playbook and exposed how broken the entire space is.

That "autonomous AI employee" your startup demoed last week? It's three ChatGPT calls wrapped in marketing copy. Google's real agents need four evaluation layers, full DevOps infrastructure, and security protocols most teams have never heard of.

While founders pitch "agents that think," Google ships AgentOps with Terraform configs and CI/CD pipelines. They're building distributed systems. Everyone else is building expensive chatbots.

The gap is insane. Startups demo function calls. Google deploys sequential workflows, parallel processing, and loop agents with ACID compliance.

Most brutal part: the security requirements. These agents access internal APIs and databases. One prompt injection and your company data is gone. Most builders treat this like an afterthought.

Google's playing chess while everyone else plays checkers. Let startups burn VC money on agent toys, then dominate when they need actual production infrastructure.

The agent revolution isn't happening until people stop confusing demos with systems.Image The guide reveals Google's three-path strategy for agent development.

Most teams are randomly picking tools without understanding these architectural choices. Image
Sep 19 13 tweets 5 min read
This is the report that rewrites AI history.

OpenAI analyzed 700M people using ChatGPT.

And the results are nothing like the narrative.

Here's everything you need to know in 3 minutes: Image "ChatGPT is mainly for work"

Reality check: Only 27% of ChatGPT usage is work-related. 73% is personal. And the gap is widening every month.

The productivity revolution narrative completely misses how people actually use AI. Image
Sep 11 10 tweets 4 min read
Accenture won’t tell you this:

You don’t need them anymore.

One well-structured prompt =

• Org chart
• SOPs
• KPIs
• Hiring plan
• Automation map

Here’s the prompt I use for automation: Image Accenture charges six figures to audit your operations.

LLMs do it in minutes for free.

I tested this on a real SaaS business with 20+ employees.

Here’s the prompt and what it produced:
Sep 8 10 tweets 3 min read
wow.. I may never hire a tax consultant again.

This AI prompt handles:

→ personal taxes
→ business filings
→ deductions

All legally.

Here’s the prompt 👇 90% people use ChatGPT to write emails, social media sloppy content etc.

Meanwhile, I use it to organize my entire tax prep process.

It won’t file for you. But it will save you:

→ Stress
→ Money
→ Missed deductions
→ Hours of back-and-forth with your accountant
Sep 6 14 tweets 5 min read
Holy sh*t, Gemini is OP.

I’ve used it to:

• Code full apps
• Summarize 100-page PDFs
• Design pitch decks
• Handle SEO + content

Here are 10 real use cases nobody’s talking about: 1. Teacher

“Act as a world-class teacher. Explain [TOPIC] in 3 levels: beginner, intermediate, expert. After each explanation, give me 2 practice questions and feedback guidelines for my answers.”

Learn anything 10x faster by leveling up step by step.
Sep 2 14 tweets 4 min read
Want to learn n8n?

This is the crash course I wish I had:

→ What it is
→ Why it matters
→ How to build your first AI automation

Bookmark this and dive in 👇 What is n8n?

n8n is an open-source automation tool that connects your apps, builds agentic workflows, and lets you host everything yourself.

Think Zapier, but with more power and zero vendor lock-in.

Ideal for devs, indie hackers, & AI builders.

n8n.ioImage
Sep 1 8 tweets 4 min read
3 weeks of GPT-5 testing taught me one thing:

The critics haven't actually used it for real work.

I've automated tasks that used to take hours.

Here are the 5 game-changing automations ↓ 1. Research + summarization

I don’t waste hours skimming reports anymore. gpt-5 turns 50 pages into a 2-minute actionable summary.

Helps me move fast without missing key details.

Prompt I use:

"you are my research assistant. read the following document or url and give me:
1. a 10-sentence executive summary
2. 5 key insights i should act on
3. the top 3 risks or blindspots most people might miss
4. rewrite the insights in simple, no-jargon language i can share with my team "

here you've to add the document link or the document itself (i prefer the file)
Aug 30 7 tweets 2 min read
Stop juggling 15 marketing tools.

One mega prompt in Gemini 2.5 Pro replaces:

- Ahrefs (research)
- Jasper (content)
- Copy. ai (ads)
- Surfer (SEO)
- CoSchedule (planning)

Here's the exact prompt that does it all ↓ 99.9% of content marketers used to rely on analysts for:

• Keyword research
• Traffic reports
• Topic ideation
• Format testing
• Engagement metrics

Now?

You can skip all that and just ask Gemini what to make and why.
Aug 28 7 tweets 3 min read
Bloomberg Terminal: $24,000/year
Professional research: $10,000/year
Gemini 2.5 Pro: Free

Same quality analysis. 100x cheaper.

The financial analysis hack.

Here’s an exact mega prompt we use for stock research and investments: The mega prompt:

Just copy + paste it into Gemini 2.5 Pro and plug in your stock.

Steal it:

"
ROLE:

Act as an elite equity research analyst at a top-tier investment fund.
Your task is to analyze a company using both fundamental and macroeconomic perspectives. Structure your response according to the framework below.

Input Section (Fill this in)

Stock Ticker / Company Name: [Add name if you want specific analysis]
Investment Thesis: [Add input here]
Goal: [Add the goal here]

Instructions:

Use the following structure to deliver a clear, well-reasoned equity research report:

1. Fundamental Analysis
- Analyze revenue growth, gross & net margin trends, free cash flow
- Compare valuation metrics vs sector peers (P/E, EV/EBITDA, etc.)
- Review insider ownership and recent insider trades

2. Thesis Validation
- Present 3 arguments supporting the thesis
- Highlight 2 counter-arguments or key risks
- Provide a final **verdict**: Bullish / Bearish / Neutral with justification

3. Sector & Macro View
- Give a short sector overview
- Outline relevant macroeconomic trends
- Explain company’s competitive positioning

4. Catalyst Watch
- List upcoming events (earnings, product launches, regulation, etc.)
- Identify both **short-term** and **long-term** catalysts

5. Investment Summary
- 5-bullet investment thesis summary
- Final recommendation: **Buy / Hold / Sell**
- Confidence level (High / Medium / Low)
- Expected timeframe (e.g. 6–12 months)

✅ Formatting Requirements
- Use **markdown**
- Use **bullet points** where appropriate
- Be **concise, professional, and insight-driven**
- Do **not** explain your process just deliver the analysis"
Aug 26 14 tweets 4 min read
If you're not getting incredible results from AI, the problem isn't the AI.

It's your prompts.

These 4 frameworks fix that problem permanently.

Here're the frameworks I use (Steal them): Today, most people prompt like this:

“Write me a marketing plan for my product.”

And then they wonder why the result feels vague, boring, and unusable.

The problem isn’t AI.

It’s your approach.
Aug 20 12 tweets 4 min read
If you’re building or investing in AI and don’t understand agents… you’re flying blind.

Here’s your shortcut: 10 core concepts every founder should know: 1/ Agentic AI

This is AI that doesn’t just answer questions it gets shit done.

Basically, It can plan, make decisions, and act without you babysitting it.

Think of the difference between asking a human for advice…

And having someone who actually takes the action for you. Image
Aug 19 10 tweets 3 min read
R.I.P McKinsey.

You don’t need a $300k consultant anymore.

You can now run full competitive market analysis using ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok deep research features.

Here are the exact 3 mega-prompts I use to replicate McKinsey-style insights for free: Image Let me tell you what McKinsey consultants actually do:

1. Analyze industry trends and competitive dynamics
2. Benchmark companies and products
3. Identify strategic risks and opportunities
4. Package it all in fancy slides and charge 6 figures

But guess what?

AI can now do 90% of that instantly.

Let me show you how:
Aug 16 13 tweets 5 min read
MCP is one of the most important things to learn right now.

• powers next-gen AI workflows
• core to building useful agents
• rapidly becoming industry standard

Here’s the complete roadmap I followed to learn it in 30 days: Most people still have no idea what MCP is.

Model Context Protocol is the missing layer between LLMs and tools.

It’s how you make an AI agent:

• Talk to any API
• Use any tool
• Do it safely & consistently Image
Aug 1 7 tweets 2 min read
you don’t need a cofounder anymore

ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini will now:

• analyze your skills
• scan market gaps
• return scalable startup ideas

this prompt is pure gold (steal it now)👇 Traditional idea generation is broken.

You either:

- scroll Twitter for hours
- copy what’s trending
- wait for “founder inspiration” to strike

Now?

You just tell an LLM what you’re interested in and it does the rest.

Here’s what it can give you:

- Business ideas tailored to your skills
- Trend-backed opportunities
- Pain-point-based products
- Ideas based on AI, SaaS, ecom, B2B, or niche industries
- Monetization breakdowns and GTM plans
Jul 31 10 tweets 3 min read
What is an AI agent?

The most misunderstood concept in tech right now.

Everyone’s using the term, but few know how they actually work.

Here’s the real breakdown (plus 10 tools to build your own): 1. What is an AI agent?

Think of it as an LLM that doesn’t just respond but acts.

It can:

- Decide what to do
- Use tools
- Manage its own workflow
- And iterate toward a goal autonomously

You’re not building a chatbot. You’re building a co-worker. Image
Jul 30 6 tweets 2 min read
WOW… your messy notes can now turn into mind maps automatically

Fluig AI just dropped a tool that turns scribbles into diagrams, tables, and flowcharts

visual thinkers are gonna love this Fluig Al swiftly transforms your ideas into mind maps, flowcharts, cards, tables, timelines, fishbone diagrams, and even code.

Think faster, organize information visually, and inspire clearer, more creative thinking.