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John Kennedy

@johnkennedy.info
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Founder / CEO at actual.ai Purveyor of the finest AI / ML / LLM content. Seattleite, Product, DWeb, Gaming, Dev Tools, and LLM experimentation (obligatory). 🦋 #861 LI: www.linkedin.com/in/johnakennedy T: @commercejohn

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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 25/11/2025
Nice. Do you think customers really want this for the pipeline integration?
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 29/09/2025
Big day for our team: www.linkedin.com/posts/johnak...
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Seattle startup Actual AI raises $3.2M to build AI agents for engineering managers | John Kennedy
Exciting day for our team! This has been a long time coming, but we are just getting started! Thanks Taylor Soper for the great article!
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 17/09/2025
It is!
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 12/08/2025
Are you doing any signing/reading outside of worldcon?
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 06/06/2025
Wrong guy
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 14/05/2025
They are the best!
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 01/05/2025
Yay!!
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 20/04/2025
Wrong John Kennedy
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 19/01/2025
We’re here.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 16/01/2025
Yes! We are using @actual.ai , which is our commercial product. Happy to talk you through it if you are interested. john at
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 15/01/2025
*last year!
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 15/01/2025
@pfrazee.com played a vital role in enhancing the platform's security. They fixed a critical bug in mute word handling, ensuring more reliable content moderation. They also removed the client-side limit on labelers and tackled auth scope challenges for account migrations.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 15/01/2025
@bnewbold.net spent a lot of time fixing typos in descriptions and comments, showing a keen eye for detail. This developer also contributed to significant features, like allowing colons in record keys and enforcing stricter rules for repository commits.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 15/01/2025
@hailey.at focused on streamlining the application's logic and testing. They simplified code, implemented detached quotes and hidden replies in threads, and added quoteCount to the embed view, proving their ability to clean up code and enhance user experience.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 15/01/2025
@esb.lol was a versioning virtuoso. Seemingly obsessed with ensuring the platform stayed fresh, they introduced new features such as video embeds, quote aggregations, and improved mute word handling. They also tirelessly hunted down bugs related to avatar resolution and other issues.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 15/01/2025
@matthieu.bsky.team dedicated their time to improving the security and robustness of the OAuth and HTTP processes. They spent their time enhancing validation, managing tokens, and fixing various minor issues, proving their knack for finding the source of errors and implementing precise fixes.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 15/01/2025
@divy.zone 's coding journey this year could be summed up as "cleanup crew extraordinaire." They seemed to find great joy in tidying up the codebase. This developer also fixed crucial bugs related to blob deletion and profile views, saving users from potential headaches and application crashes.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 15/01/2025
@foysal.it was on a mission to fortify the platform's security. From adding threat signatures and refining OAuth validation to enhancing moderation tools and implementing rate limiting, they left no stone unturned in their quest to make the platform a fortress of digital safety.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 15/01/2025
@dholms.xyz tirelessly worked on everything from feed interactions and thread mutes to fixing critical bugs and improving performance. They were the master of all trades, juggling multiple projects and keeping the codebase in tip-top shape.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 15/01/2025
Love the work done by the @atproto.com team this year! Here's a fun little analysis with the top 8 contributors: www.wrapped.dev/repo/bluesky... 🧵
wrapped.dev
Wrapped.dev
Your Repos' 2024
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 13/01/2025
The problem with most pitch critiques is that they don't recognize that there is one pitch for investors and one pitch for customers. Any pitch can be destroyed if you judge it on the alternate target.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 09/01/2025
Supabase.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 06/01/2025
New year, new static generation framework.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 05/01/2025
31K out of 50K. I need to spend much more time on this.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 01/01/2025
On the 31st, we hit third on ProductHunt with wrapped.dev! We’ve processed over 191K commits so far! Request your favorite open source repo to see a fun AI generated summary of 2024!
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Wrapped.dev
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 01/01/2025
I now think of these words all over the place including customer request tagging, issue tagging, moat themes, customer/investor updates, etc.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 01/01/2025
This one is particularly useful in thinking about roadmap. For each of our agents, we have to balance Perception, Reasoning, Decisioning, and Tooling.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 01/01/2025
"[An AI agent is] an intelligent software system designed to perceive its environment, reason about it, make decisions, and take actions to achieve specific objectives autonomously" from Rudina Seseri at Glasswing.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 01/01/2025
For me, AI agent has meant autonomy (does things without asking) and agency (the things it does have an effect on the world, not just answering questions), but today I found a better definition reading this article: techcrunch.com/2024/12/15/w...
techcrunch.com
What exactly is an AI agent? | TechCrunch
Regardless of how they're defined, the agents are for helping complete tasks in an automated way with as little human interaction as possible.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 01/01/2025
Apparently we are going to use the the term "agent", an already ridiculously overloaded term, for the defining technology of 2025.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 30/12/2024
Check out our Christmas AI project: wrapped.dev
wrapped.dev
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 23/12/2024
Winter in the old country
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 20/12/2024
This is what we are trying to fix: actual.ai
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 18/12/2024
Agreed. Cursor Composer FTW. www.linkedin.com/posts/johnak...
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John Kennedy on LinkedIn: In case you are thinking of trying out Cursor, let me give you a massive…
In case you are thinking of trying out Cursor, let me give you a massive head start. It is critical to fill out the "Rules for AI" in Cursor Settings and…
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 18/12/2024
Right picture. I don’t like things that cover other things.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 12/12/2024
@karenborchert.bsky.social
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 12/12/2024
This is why I love alpacapacks.com
alpacapacks.com
Alpaca – A Teacher Celebration Company 🎉
Alpaca delivers a simple system to listen to your staff, deliver care packages they’ll love, and rally your community, with zero extra work.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 11/12/2024
Can also see this trend emerging in open source: ai16z.github.io/eliza/
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eliza | eliza
Flexible, scalable AI agents for everyone
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 11/12/2024
Time to re-engineer all commerce funnels and customer lifecycles. Personal agents that interact with the internet have just gone mainstream with Project Mariner: blog.google/technology/g...
blog.google
Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era
Today, we’re announcing Gemini 2.0, our most capable AI model yet.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 11/12/2024
There are 5 startup events that my co-founder and I are deciding between in Seattle today, which would be SF-great, except that there is only one other interesting event this week… who is going to run the Seattle Startup @lu.ma calendar?
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 10/12/2024
Is this what we post here?
Couple in 1920’s outfits in front of a piano and fireplace.Couple later in the night enjoying a party. Wife kissing husband’s cheek.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 10/12/2024
This is not surprising. Being able to hire talented staff below market and lock them into your company for 5+ years is a competitive advantage. I have been that talent. it.slashdot.org/story/24/12/...
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IT Giant Favored Indian H-1B Workers Over US Employees - Slashdot
chiguy writes: In October, a jury in a federal class-action lawsuit returned a verdict that found Cognizant intentionally discriminated against more than 2,000 non-Indian employees between 2013 and 2...
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 07/12/2024
Yes.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 06/12/2024
Time to get a bigger bot
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 05/12/2024
Tsunami in SF???
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 05/12/2024
R u i n e d
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 04/12/2024
Look, I love me some Garman, a return to our roots, sales-led / builder-friendly, but when the singularity goes foom in <5 years, cloud will just be a cradle for AI. Product-guy Swami is our only hope.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 04/12/2024
Agreed. I have met him. I expect his ascension in the next 5-7 years.
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 04/12/2024
😂
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John Kennedy @johnkennedy.info · 04/12/2024
✋
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