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Conner Cowling

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🦾 Building CoCounsel Legal AI assistant @casetext + @thomsonreuters | 🏘 Co-founder of @neighborxchange | 🌄 Sharing ideas on tech, biz, leadership on @x.

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Anthropic pointed Claude Opus 4.6 at some of the most heavily fuzzed open source codebases in the world, projects with millions of hours of CPU time behind them, and found 500+ high-severity vulnerabilities. Some had been hiding for decades. Instead of throwing random inputs like

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Agents make problems like doc rot more obvious at the same time they make them possible to solve. It’s the type of shit that has always created noise and inefficiency among collaborators, but the only real solution was to burn a huge amount of cognitive bandwidth to master it.

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Punctuated Equilibrium. That's what we're experiencing today. It's now your job to survive, adapt, evolve. This is a term that comes from evolutionary biology (image 1), that Simon Wardley has applied to markets (image 2). Understand, this is not about gradual transformation within

Punctuated Equilibrium. That's what we're experiencing today. It's now your job to survive, adapt, evolve.

This is a term that comes from evolutionary biology (image 1), that <a href="/swardley/">Simon Wardley</a> has applied to markets (image 2).

Understand, this is not about gradual transformation within
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Typical stages of automating stuff with LLM - oh oh my God. I think this might be possible - oh fuck, it actually worked - holy shit this is scary. What am I gonna do - ok let's try to get it to do again - oh weird, it doesn't work like the first time. Hmm lemme fix the

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A surprising amount of “tech leadership” is just being the adult in the room when everyone wants to work on shit that doesn’t matter.

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Here’s what the scenario boils down to. A doom loop with no diminishing returns. Driving a shift in spending that puts energy into the flywheel.

Here’s what the scenario boils down to. 

A doom loop with no diminishing returns.

Driving a shift in spending that puts energy into the flywheel.
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I just opened vim for the first time in awhile. Had no idea what to do. Then just checked out and my hands hit buttons and got the job done. Muscle memory is wild. Could not explain exactly what I did without going back through.

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I've always been a huge nerd about organizing bookmarks, transcripts, documentation. A sort of librarian. Turns out they call this "context engineering" now. It's serving me very well these days.

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I cannot emphasize enough: AI is an amplifier, it's a scaler, and 10x of 0 is still zero! What's the difference between 10-20x gains and slop? It's abstractions, process, lifecycle management. All of which are OLD. - System design - Data types - Exceptions - Comments - Docs -

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The smart ones going to say: we don't want your data, here's a compute and control plane that does 80% of the job for 10-20% of the cost. No lock-in.

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API First is 25 years old and people still screw it up. It's simple: - The world is a network and so is your org - Standardize how the nodes interact and you can completely surrender how those nodes are built - Each node is exposed to market selection pressure, they live and die

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Obsidian + Claude, Cursor is a God-send. One problem I have now though: Keeping many more vaults clearly distinguishable. Who knows how to add a bold color to each vault to visually distinguish them from one another??? I have many open at once and I need a quick visual