Paul Velonis
@Velona
Tech Investor and Advisor
Is anyone using Google anymore? I use Perplexity for most searches these days, other than Google shopping and YouTube my usage of Google has dropped to almost nothing. Even for shopping I use perplexity to help me find the right product and then Google for the last bit to…
My 9yo just asked me about AI and robots and whether I was worried they were going to take over, and why @elonmusk isn’t worried about it. That was an interesting conversation in the drive home from school.
After spending 12 hours on a plane yesterday, I was really missing the support of LLMs for research. Currently exploring jan.ai which seems to be a very nice and easy way to run local open source models on my oldish Mac m1 air. Have a feeling this endeavour might…
My first impressions of Amazons Vibe Coding platform Kiro, and how it compares to other platforms I've been using such as @Replit open.substack.com/pub/velona/p/t…
Will vibe coding platforms kill the development industry, how does one transition from a vibe coded app to a scaled enterprise application, and what does the services sector look like in this domain? Documenting some thoughts here. realvelona.com/2025/07/19/ai-…
Another day, another cool AI builder. open.substack.com/pub/velona/p/a…
Huge development for Replit. Hope the infrastructure is ready for the increased load.
We are excited to announce a strategic partnership with Microsoft to bring Vibe Coding to Enterprise companies. As part of this collaboration, Microsoft customers will soon be able to: 🚀 Develop applications securely on Replit and deploy seamlessly to Microsoft Azure 🔥…
The Creative Mind in a Corporate World open.substack.com/pub/velona/p/t…
This!
Everyone’s talking about context engineering right now and that’s a good thing. We’ve been doing it for almost a year now, and one thing we’ve learned: memory isn’t different from context engineering, it’s right at the core of it. Context engineering is all about deciding what…
I passed on investing in perplexity earlier this year and I regret it. Here is my view on why perplexity could be the next big thing in the AI space. realvelona.com/2025/06/25/why…
While we are at it, can we replace the term vibe coding, I think you coined that one Andrej. I'm convinced techies are just terrible at branding.
+1 for "context engineering" over "prompt engineering". People associate prompts with short task descriptions you'd give an LLM in your day-to-day use. When in every industrial-strength LLM app, context engineering is the delicate art and science of filling the context window…
Amazon has conditioned me in such a way that waiting 2-3 days for the domestic postal service to deliver a package from a big box retailer within my city feels like we’ve gone back to the stone ages.
I believe an opportunity exists to build a platform+services organisation supporting non-technical founders, who vibe-code a commercially successful application, to deploy to a scalable, stable and secure environment, whilst also taking over support and enhancement of the…
I wrote a blog to document the main use cases as I see them for @Replit agentic AI developer. realvelona.com/2025/06/18/unl…
I can't understand why an enterprise of any meaningful size would still have an IVR without callback functionality. IMO nothing does more damage to your customer experience than making customers wait for long period on the phone to resolve an issue. Can anyone explain the…
here is my latest blog on my experience using and iterating on my gtd app, using Replits platform. realvelona.com/2025/06/13/thr…