Ash Tilawat
@ashtilawat
Building @joingauntletai. We train the world's top AI talent all-expenses-paid in Austin, TX. 100 hours/week for 10 weeks. Cohort 3 starts October 13.
I predict Gauntlet AI challengers will have AI-First Development with Fortran figured out this week. We want to do assembly or cobol next. Who’s got a repo? Need it to be as large as possible.
I am deep in legacy FORTRAN code. 30+ year old, large, established codebase (anywhere between 1.5-3 million lines of code), with regressions and robust, complex architecture. Let's see how AI does when I want to add new features. The challenge is on.
I have Gauntlet challengers spinning up containers on AWS each running Claude code working on the same repo using their own feature branches and task management mechanisms. Brave new world 🙏
Flexport Tycoon: 5 days into @joingauntletai game week, can you build the largest container shipping empire the world's ever seen while navigating geopolitical uncertainties
🧠@TrySubject is building fast and thinking carefully about how AI shapes learning. They set a high bar for engineering. We’re glad they chose to bring Gauntlet engineers into that effort.
Kicking off my favorite week at Gauntlet AI: Adding significant user-facing features to massive legacy codebases. Older programming languages, versioning issues, convoluted templating, funky CI/CD. AI still must write 100% of the code. Challengers have one week.
Next week at Gauntlet AI is possibly the most important and definitely the most challenging: LEGACY ENTERPRISE CODEBASE WEEK 🎉🥳 Starting point is abandoned products! * >1m lines of code * Not updated * Convoluted templating and integrations * AI still must write all code
Dear @Meta, can we make FB marketplace its own app so I can officially delete my Facebook account that hasn’t been updated in 10 years
Introducing Flexport the Video Game. Build your global logistics empire before the AI Singularity hits
Built in 1 week by @rooshonline during the Gauntlet AI hackathon. Just incredible what’s possible when you take a top tier engineer and arm them with AI coding tools (and a lot of caffeine).
We are officially accepting applications for @joingauntletai Cohort 3 starting on Oct 13. apply.gauntletai.com
Grok 4 now has access to tool use. And by tools, we mean... swords. I used Grok 4 to vibe code a fighting game where you can wield swords as Ani. Slay zombies, wield weapons, perform insane combos, and collect $GROKCOIN in this slick web game. It's still in development,…
Gauntlet Cohort 2 Challenger @BigStrickEnergy Sean made the Sims for @joingauntletai. He’s never made a game before. Coded it entirely with Cursor, Gemini, and Sonnet in 7 days. Presenting @Austen’s AI Arena: You must balance your health, social, and CCAT score to win a 200K…
Children of Singularity, MVP Submission 2. Now with more custom made assets, custom music (shown in the intro), data persistence, all created in Godot, and with an AWS backend. Looking forward to the final reveal Sunday - hope you all enjoy!
Check out the progress I made on my first ever video game, Brawl Bytes! Built using Phaser3 + Socket.io + Express / Node.js + TypeScript
Huge shoutout to @warpdotdev team for leading a workshop at @joingauntletai today! We appreciate you answering our nuanced questions and giving us so much of your time. Excited to see how the challengers start using Warp. @hongyichen_
The @joingauntletai Cohort 2 ditching Cursor in favor of Claude Code x.com/ashtilawat/sta…
The times are changing in @joingauntletai cohort 2. Half the group wants to ditch @cursor_ai Pro (even with VERY high overage limits) and switch to $200/month Claude MAX accounts instead. Windsurf? Crickets. Haven’t heard anyone ask for it once this cohort. Other highlights:…
Fascinating to watch software choices of Gauntlet AI engineers shifting over time. We’ll pay for the pro version of 1 tool, but you have to choose which. Claude eating away at Cursor’s internal market share. Windsurf had almost entirely died, slowly coming back to life.
We are already prepared for the new wave thanks to @joingauntletai
The next @SkyfiApp customer might not be human. They’re ready – thanks to Gauntlet grads already in-house, and more on the way. We love watching our hiring partners win! Shout out to @FischerLukeM and Julian for leading the vision!