Board director & fCTO at @Whitesmithco. Rebuilding how companies operate with AI and sharing the systems, trade-offs and failures from inside the work.
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Most companies are treating AI as a tooling change when it is really an operating change.
New tools go in. Ownership, budgets, review and risk stay untouched.
The pilots look promising. Company performance barely moves.
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Rafael Jegundo retweeted
Agree. “Factory” is not a perfect term but the move up in abstraction is real. It’s a shift towards engineering agentic systems away from directly prompting agents.
Just wanted to defend the term "Software Factory" for a second.
First, the caveats:
It's bullshit. It sounds fancier than it really is.
It's a bandwagon. People are using it to get you and their VC's hyped.
But it's also referring to a real change.
Earlier this year, most SOTA teams were using agents to work on the product. Shipping features, fixing bugs.
But now, they're building automations to help agents work on the product for them. They've moved up a layer.
What do we call the thing they're building? Loops? Workflows? Some other generic label?
"Software Factory" is as good a term as any other.
- "We're not working on the product, we're working on the factory that builds the product."
- "We're not product engineers, we're factory engineers."
I like it. I'll continue using it.
Building with AI at scale requires to scale the verification and QA proportionally
Here’s how we are doing: whitesmith.co/webinar-tech/
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Rafael Jegundo retweeted
Elon, perhaps the last person I would've thought would agreed that the development of frontier models should slow, has said he agrees with Dario's "We Must Pace The Frontier" blog post
Nominally, that means OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI have now signalled their willingness to slow. Wow
At @Whitesmithco, we use our own company to test the work: sales, management, invoicing and software delivery.
Some workflows now run mostly through agents. Some still need a human in the middle. A few were not worth automating.
That is the useful bit.
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I’ll share what we learn here: what works, what breaks, and what leaders actually need to change.
If you are trying to make AI show up in company performance, start with our 8-minute Momentum Check:
whitesmith.co/ai-momentum-ch…
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Rafael Jegundo retweeted
You basically need to be unemployed to keep up with all this AI stuff. @jack feels it too
Rafael Jegundo retweeted
This week we're launching two webinars. One for mobile engineering teams. One for leadership teams rolling out AI across an organisation.
Both built on what we've learned doing this work with real companies, not theory.
TLDR: we are now running EEG on models to know if their intentions are actually, truly nice
Before limited-releasing Claude Mythos Preview, we investigated its internal mechanisms with interpretability techniques. We found it exhibited notably sophisticated (and often unspoken) strategic thinking and situational awareness, at times in service of unwanted actions. (1/14)
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Rafael Jegundo retweeted
The launch of ChatGPT Health is really personal for me. I know how hard it can be to navigate the healthcare system (even with great care). AI can help patients and doctors with some of the biggest issues. More here: fidjisimo.substack.com/p/cha…
Rafael Jegundo retweeted
Something I wanted to see if Claude Opus 4.5 could do: clone a fully functional Billion $ SAAS product and make it at least 100x cheaper.
The first product that came to mind was TypeForm because it's very popular, very expensive, and in theory, very simple.
The result is OpenForm: a polished + functional and Open Source Typeform clone at ~100x less cost, that can be setup and deployed in ~15 minutes. The agent building this ran for ~35 minutes.
Here are the details, technique, and the code:
Correct, also managing trade-offs of time, budget and level of sophistication
I think the role of the Software Engineer is evolving into a Product Engineer.
LLM tools have made writing code easier than ever. The real bottleneck isn't implementation anymore - it's deciding what to build and how the UX should work.
That's why I've been spending more of my time learning design and product skills. The most impactful engineers will be the ones who can shape products, not just ship features.
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Rafael Jegundo retweeted
This from @obie captures how I'm feeling about coding agents
ALT If the part of programming you enjoy most is the physical act of writing code, then agents will feel beside the point. You’re already where you want to be, even just with some Copilot or Cursor-style intelligent code auto completion, which makes you faster while still leaving you fully in the driver’s seat about the code that gets written. But if the part you care about is the decision-making around the code, agents feel like they clear space. They take care of the mechanical expression and leave you with judgment, tradeoffs, and intent. Because truly, for someone at my experience level, that is my core value offering anyway. When I spend time actually typing code these days with my own fingers, it feels like a waste of my time. If that time is being billed to my client at my expensive hourly rate, I feel even worse about it.
Even if current LLM progress hits a brick wall at Opus 4.5 level (and I doubt that will happen) the next 12 months are still going to be a staggering time of change in this industry as decision makers start truly understanding the new reality we live in.
obie.medium.com/what-happens…
Rafael Jegundo retweeted
Day 32 of wondering why @AnthropicAI doesn't just offer a Claude Max+ plan for $500/m with even broader token limits for those who want to go all in on Opus 4.1.
