Jeremy Blalock
@jeremyblalock
Manufacturing tech, making stuff. Founder @InventoraHQ, prev @AdaloHQ
Lots of talk of prompts being the new source code Good business if you’re OpenAI and I have to pay you every time I hit compile
Damn, codex works way better at 10pm than during the work day
Tariffs might actually make housing more affordable—hear me out - The price of consumer goods will likely go up - Salaries are relatively inelastic with a fixed money supply - Current administration is against money printing - Housing prices are largely demand driven
In 2015 I was working as a software engineer with: - No in-editor error checking / eslint - No copilot - No code formatter - No LLM, just lots of stack overflow No wonder people thought pair programming was a good idea
Why don't customers who they're emailing? - Got an email requesting a call 2 days ago - Talked on the phone for a couple minutes - Scheduled a meeting for today - Invited a couple more team members Turns out they were trying to buy Inventoria not Inventora
CEO getting replaced used to mean startup was scaling super fast and VCs thought the team needed someone more mature to guide the ship. Now it usually means the growth has stopped and the team is burnt out.
still cracks me up that there are PUBLICLY TRADED aircraft companies (most via spac) that haven't done a single full scale flight test
Working on integrations is one of the most draining tasks known to man. Glad LLMs will be taking this one soon.
We need more b2b saas apps that are extensible with AI, so I can write my own prompts and automations As an example my customer support app should basically be shell for me to add different automations based on different types of messages. I want to add to this list over time.