james hawkins
j406.bsky.social
james hawkins
@j406.bsky.social
cofounder at PostHog
my son is watching his first winter olympics.

he just said “daddy, why don’t both teams just ask AI to build the optimal training strategy, and vibe code an app to track KPIs?”

he's 37 and i am so sick of him
February 11, 2026 at 4:20 PM
controversial take:

"senior developer" doesn't mean 10 years of experience.

it means you're at least 90 years of age and qualify for the senior citizen discount on claude code tokens
February 10, 2026 at 7:02 PM
wow, huge news

congrats to everyone involved 🙌
February 10, 2026 at 4:02 PM
February 9, 2026 at 6:03 PM
is this good
February 8, 2026 at 6:02 PM
claude code is seriously so cracked. it's over for engineers. RIP cs majors

⚠️ this post was created by someone who has never used claude code and is too scared to even try
February 7, 2026 at 7:01 PM
maybe the baby is crying because it hasn't tried claude code
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 PM
lot of people confused over what this button does, let me explain

when you accidentally press it, it activates a feature called copilot

that feature doesn't do anything useful, but it means Microsoft gets valued at $3 trillion because it has "billions of customers using AI"

hope that helps!
February 6, 2026 at 7:03 PM
flight attendant: do we have a doctor on board

me: my AI assistant has passed multiple PhD exams

flight attendant: this passenger is having a heart attack

me: not so fast. i typed her symptoms into my ai assistant and it says she could have network connectivity issues
February 6, 2026 at 5:02 PM
her hands look like this

so mine can type this
February 5, 2026 at 5:03 PM
they should add Claude Code to CarPlay

unfortunately innovation died in this country long ago
February 4, 2026 at 7:02 PM
"the new bottleneck is code review"

nonsense

i just spun up a code review agent with the prompt "make sure this code is great!"

stop putting limits on yourself
February 2, 2026 at 8:00 PM
"everyone's adding protein to their products, why don't we make protein for product analytics" i say loudly in the zoom call. no one else is there. it doesn't start for 45 minutes. my headset isn't even on
February 2, 2026 at 6:05 PM
JUST IN: the groundhog has seen his shadow, predicting 6 more weeks of meetings that should have been emails
February 2, 2026 at 4:00 PM
how it feels to take one minute of revenue from your friend venmoing you $5 for doordash and multiply it by 32 million to get your startup's ARR
February 1, 2026 at 10:01 PM
spent the weekend setting these bad boys up instead of spending time with wife and kids now i can ask questions like "what's a startup" and "explain revenue as if i was a small child
February 1, 2026 at 6:02 PM
i tried using claude cowork and all it's doing is making small talk about my weekend plans

is this really agi
January 31, 2026 at 5:02 PM
you say your team is "locked in"

how are you supposed to know that without getting status updates?

are you brave enough to type "@ everyone any update on this?" every 30 minutes?

i am.

that's how you climb the corporate ladder.

and i'm taking the elevator.
January 30, 2026 at 5:04 PM
"i hope this email finds you well"
- boring
- not this again
- blehhhhhhhhhhh

"i hope this email finds you before i do"
- commanding
- gets s**t done
- i wouldn't mess with them
January 28, 2026 at 8:01 PM
you, simple-minded: asking claude code to build a $100mm startup

me, 10x thinker: asking claude code to build 100 $10mm startups that become posthog customers

we are not the same
January 26, 2026 at 10:01 PM
?
January 26, 2026 at 6:04 PM
devil on my shoulder: you should refactor the entire codebase in one prompt that says "make it better"

angel on my shoulder: yeah that would be sick
January 25, 2026 at 10:00 PM
claude code just asked if i had 5 minutes to hop on a quick call
January 25, 2026 at 6:00 PM
for sale

cursor credits

never used
January 24, 2026 at 5:01 PM
there's literally nothing stopping you from hitting your macbook with a hammer 47 times until the $10 million comes out
January 24, 2026 at 4:01 PM