John Kennedy
@johnkennedy.info
Founder / CEO at https://actual.ai
Purveyor of the finest AI / ML / LLM content.
Seattleite, Product, DWeb, Gaming, Dev Tools, and LLM experimentation (obligatory).
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LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnakennedy/
T: @commercejohn
Purveyor of the finest AI / ML / LLM content.
Seattleite, Product, DWeb, Gaming, Dev Tools, and LLM experimentation (obligatory).
🦋 #861
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnakennedy/
T: @commercejohn
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Big day for our team: www.linkedin.com/posts/johnak...
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!
www.linkedin.com
September 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Big day for our team: www.linkedin.com/posts/johnak...
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... 🧵
www.wrapped.dev/repo/bluesky... 🧵
Wrapped.dev
Your Repos' 2024
www.wrapped.dev
January 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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... 🧵
www.wrapped.dev/repo/bluesky... 🧵
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.
January 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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.
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!
Wrapped.dev
Your Repos' 2024
wrapped.dev
January 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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!
Apparently we are going to use the the term "agent", an already ridiculously overloaded term, for the defining technology of 2025.
January 1, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Apparently we are going to use the the term "agent", an already ridiculously overloaded term, for the defining technology of 2025.
Check out our Christmas AI project: wrapped.dev
Wrapped.dev
Your Repos' 2024
wrapped.dev
December 30, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Check out our Christmas AI project: wrapped.dev
Winter in the old country
December 23, 2024 at 2:15 AM
Winter in the old country
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...
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.
blog.google
December 11, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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...
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?
December 11, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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?
Is this what we post here?
December 10, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Is this what we post here?
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/...
it.slashdot.org/story/24/12/...
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...
it.slashdot.org
December 10, 2024 at 6:11 PM
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/...
it.slashdot.org/story/24/12/...
I want more of my friends to know where I am
December 3, 2024 at 11:17 PM
I want more of my friends to know where I am
This is the way.
“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.
They run them bc people react to them the most.
If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.
It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
They run them bc people react to them the most.
If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.
It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
December 2, 2024 at 6:48 PM
This is the way.
This is outrageous: developers.slashdot.org/story/24/11/...
Stanford Research Reveals 9.5% of Software Engineers 'Do Virtually Nothing' - Slashdot
A Stanford study of over 50,000 software engineers across hundreds of companies has found that approximately 9.5% of engineers perform minimal work while drawing full salaries, potentially costing tec...
developers.slashdot.org
November 27, 2024 at 4:50 PM
This is outrageous: developers.slashdot.org/story/24/11/...
It’s a good day to build 😊
November 24, 2024 at 2:16 AM
It’s a good day to build 😊
Love this meta-work. It’s a sign of a very healthy developer eco-system. This is what happens when open platforms and protocols are getting traction.
I'm launching a new website: sdk.blue - a list of all libraries/SDKs for building things on #ATProto, grouped by language 🙂
If I forgot anything important, or you have an ATProto/Bluesky library that you think would be a good fit there (or if I should remove anything), please send me a PR :) #atdev
If I forgot anything important, or you have an ATProto/Bluesky library that you think would be a good fit there (or if I should remove anything), please send me a PR :) #atdev
sdk.blue
A curated list of libraries & SDKs for the Bluesky API and AT Protocol
sdk.blue
November 21, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Love this meta-work. It’s a sign of a very healthy developer eco-system. This is what happens when open platforms and protocols are getting traction.
I need AWS to get on @bsky.app so I can complain to them about the AWS SAM linter... good vibes are great and all, but naming and shaming corporates on socials for better support is critical to our post-industrial society!
November 20, 2024 at 4:42 AM
I need AWS to get on @bsky.app so I can complain to them about the AWS SAM linter... good vibes are great and all, but naming and shaming corporates on socials for better support is critical to our post-industrial society!
Hey @mubashariqbal.com please add: go.bsky.app/4hmS2iA
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November 14, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Hey @mubashariqbal.com please add: go.bsky.app/4hmS2iA
In an effort to increase sub-network density and spawn amazing conversations, I've created an AI / ML / LLM starter pack:
go.bsky.app/4hmS2iA
go.bsky.app/4hmS2iA
AI / ML / LLM People
Join the conversation
go.bsky.app
November 14, 2024 at 9:48 PM
In an effort to increase sub-network density and spawn amazing conversations, I've created an AI / ML / LLM starter pack:
go.bsky.app/4hmS2iA
go.bsky.app/4hmS2iA
Building a starter pack with all my ex-Acquians: go.bsky.app/SNeY2Mn Let me know if you should be on it!
November 14, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Building a starter pack with all my ex-Acquians: go.bsky.app/SNeY2Mn Let me know if you should be on it!
Someone is going to plug GIMP 3.0 into an LLM and they will be a hero: www.tomshardware.com/software/fre...
Free, open-source Photoshop alternative finally enters release candidate testing after 20 years — the transition from GIMP 2.x to GIMP 3.0 took two decades
The slow and steady climb to 3.0 culminates in the most modernized version of GIMP yet.
www.tomshardware.com
November 12, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Someone is going to plug GIMP 3.0 into an LLM and they will be a hero: www.tomshardware.com/software/fre...
If wafer-scale Memristors become viable, we could have on-device LLMs with no idle power requirement that meaningfully contain the sum of human knowledge. It could be the turning point for 1. neural interfaces, 2. robotics, 3. education. 4. User experience pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Memristors with Monolayer Graphene Electrodes Grown Directly on Sapphire Wafers
The development of the memristor has generated significant interest due to its non-volatility, simple structure, and low power consumption. Memristors based on graphene offer atomic monolayer thicknes...
pubs.acs.org
October 26, 2024 at 9:54 PM
If wafer-scale Memristors become viable, we could have on-device LLMs with no idle power requirement that meaningfully contain the sum of human knowledge. It could be the turning point for 1. neural interfaces, 2. robotics, 3. education. 4. User experience pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Exciting times this week! We got our first angel check, we got accepted into Alchemist Accelerator, and we are getting some great feedback from customers!
October 19, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Exciting times this week! We got our first angel check, we got accepted into Alchemist Accelerator, and we are getting some great feedback from customers!
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #861!
September 20, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #861!