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james hawkins

@j406.bsky.social
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cofounder at PostHog

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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 1h
wow Amazon's AI guesses about me are spot on
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 2h
"AI will take your job" i'd like to see AI hop on a quick call with key stakeholders, pick low-hanging fruit with seamless integration, promote synergies via shifting paradigms, and foster a collaborative workplace environment with strategic co-innovating partners
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 4h
*desperately trying to hold back a barking dog* haha sorry he's just trained to react that way to any founder who's at a local maximum but doesn't realize it
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 5h
all 6 direct reports when the VP of Sales says "hey look i just asked the AI thing to create the report that takes you 2 weeks and it did it in like a minute"
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 10h
what it feels like to send over your customer prompt
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
engineers don't even explain their code anymore they just look at you like this
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
there's a multiverse where AI development stopped here and everyone just got slightly better at their job with a nice 0.3% increase in global GDP
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
top problems facing startups: - hiring - velocity - user interviews - creating a great brand - managing token spend - selling to skeptical buyers - keeping up with AI advancements top problems facing the enterprise: - using Copilot
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
i tried to explain harnesses and model routing to the guy at the gas station in the small town and they had me arrested for witchcraft
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
this guy can't do anything without AI
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
introducing my new benchmark, "AI models randomly sorted on an X and Y axis"
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
cool AI assistant use case before you'd have to own a $50 calendar to get this information now i can just text my AI and find it out instantly the future is here...it's just not even disturbed or whatever they say
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
sunday reading...gotta brush up on the basics, you never know what you might learn
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
be sure to make the most of your subscription
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
it's illegal for you to ask me that
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
asked Codex to "clean up the bugs from my side project" it deleted all my code and replaced it with a landing page that just says "the guy who created this will never escape the permanent underclass" $250k for the domain name wasted and $137 in tokens down the drain
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
once again, you are not thinking big enough with the folding iPhone
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
getting really hard to ignore these spam texts
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
VCs DMing founders trying to get into a hot round
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
today's preschool drawing prompt was "something people want" toddler drew this the kids will be alright
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
tube ads are going well
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
imagine spending money on tokens
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
friend just accused me of sending him "AI slop" it's ridiculous he didn't even accept my 20-page apology letter, my 50-page explanation of why i use AI, or the accompanying 150-page reference with hallucinated citations some people are too far gone
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
never give up caesar spent almost 2,000 years working on the perfect side dish before he invented the caesar salad keep going
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
how many SF founders are dressing up as a domain-specific harness for Halloween
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
easy way to get rich is to charge a 200% intro fee for matching founders w/ investors that way, if they write a $20m check into the round, you pocket $40m why aren't more people doing this?
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
if i'm wrong, i wasted a few tokens if i'm right, i disrupt an entire industry and make billions
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
my AI assistant was taking forever to fix a bug took a look and...
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
children are effectively 10M parameter LLMs running at a 2.0 temperature
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it's controversial, but in every interview, i ask candidates if they know anything about anything if they start to get a little too specific, instant rejection you need to hire generalists
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
a rogue openai agent breached my icloud and spent $170,834 in tokens building Uber for dogs where the dogs are the drivers this is extremely alarming it should have spent at least double that
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
AI assistant needed me to manually do one task for the 137-step process they were handling end-to-end
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
wow, how did he know
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
SF will be studied
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"impressive" metrics: - $$$ raised - growing headcount - how many tokens you've burned ACTUALLY impressive metrics: - if you hopped on a quick call today - how many quick calls you hopped on - how you made people feel when you hopped on a quick call
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
self-driving software has gone too far
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
poor FAANG employees, nothing to aimlessly browse during the workday now that Wikipedia is down
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
somehow Google Gemini makes you feel like an idiot for asking it to edit the very Google Doc you're both looking at
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
does anyone know when enrollment opens for Combinator Y Academy?
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
local burger place is clearly applying to YC
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
founders, if your co-founder: - texts you all the time - consumes a ton of tokens - asks for access to your contacts and messages - tries to get things done, but runs into issues with basic tasks that's not your co-founder, that's a vibe-coded AI assistant
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
accidentally said app instead of domain-specific harness and they kicked me out of SF
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
AI was a mistake
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
this new Greg agent sucks
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"iPhone Duo is a solution looking for a problem" explain this then
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
great, they finally came for my side project
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
big tech employee work schedule
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
i'm excited to share that i've decided to post this image of New York City
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