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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
6 months
we designed, 3d printed and built a <$500 drone with that calculates GPS coordinates without a signal using a camera + google maps in 24h
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
6 months
shoutout to carl he doesn’t have twitter but he designed the whole drone from scratch and is a total beast
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@ilaffey2
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1 month
@wolftivy there’s like 10-20 pitfalls you need to avoid in order to really enjoy and thrive in modern life. drugs are probably #1
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
27 days
the boys are absolutely locked in
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
3 months
got into Y Combinator 2 months ago we’ve been grinding non-stop since then getting back in sf from dc tonight if you want to drive out to the middle of nowhere and test drones for a month straight dm me or email ian at theseus dot so
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
3 months
pov: ur working at the coolest company in the world
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
1 month
@RobJHeaton this is epic. why don’t you create ~1k fictitious airline accounts with a script and get it up to 1k/sec and then do something crazy with it like livestream ascii star wars or play a game
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
6 months
cute little landing page i threw together after dinner, big things to come
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
5 months
you can change your whole life if you’re cracked and can afford to pull up to sf with no plan/job for 4-8 weeks
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
2 months
We're testing the Theseus Compass module for visual navigation over some of the hardest environments we can find in California. What we're finding: - Cold start in any environment, no initial position required - sub 100m accuracy, not subject to compounding from traditional VIO
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
4 months
get in loser, we’re going to revitalize the defense industry
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
8 months
lol san francisco is insane… thanks for the ride @davidrisher ! i hope i gave a good user interview
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
6 months
Yea building drones is cool but have you heard of b2b saas?
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
2 months
bro u can literally do anything if you believe in it and work at it long enough
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
6 months
build cool shit meet cool people
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
1 year
I am terrible at staying consistent on Twitter. Does anyone have any advice on how to stay disciplined?
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
4 months
great day of testing yesterday with the boys
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
1 month
first day of yc 🤠
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
18 days
fucked our new drone straight into the ground on day 1 but at least the battle station looked cool beforehand
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
6 months
ngl bro hacking on drones is pretty cool
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
2 months
i’m pretty sure this is common knowledge, but one of the side effects of doing hard stuff is most things in life are straightforward in comparison moving apartments today and it’s just like 0 stress this is a breeze my tolerance bar is so much higher
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
3 months
you have access to god like intelligence via an api and you’re making a web app for a problem you don’t even have?
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
3 months
9:30 on a saturday and everyone’s finally fucked off i made coffee im listening to nirvana and writing C code life is fucking great
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
26 days
this is the best job ever
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
4 months
when you realize you forgot to push the branch mid road trip
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
2 months
running all our edge compute on this bad boy ;)
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
9 months
Shoutout to San Francisco and @fdotinc for connecting me with such amazing people! On a flight with @RoxCodes to London to work on some dope shit!!!
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Ian Laffey
3 months
buzzing
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
5 months
Theseus Compass VizNav v0.1 Did someone say "fast hardware iteration" ? Just built this bad boy in 2 days. It's literally an Android bro, we're literally strapping an Android to the bottom of a drone.
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
5 months
This is a drone flying with it's GPS module replaced w/ Theseus VisNav so much work left to do and I am so excited
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
6 months
live tweeting building a 100B company day 9
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
5 months
proud to be an american
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
4 months
the boys r cooking
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
6 months
my dad called me out of the blue to say “i’m so proud of you” and that was really fucking cool
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
5 months
we are going to make a million drones
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Ian Laffey
2 months
literally just work @ the coolest company in the world
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Ian Laffey
1 month
aww she’s thirsty!
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
3 months
real use of multi modal ai
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
6 months
you can in fact just build things
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
14 days
@kodjima33 @AviSchiffmann i mean i don’t think i need to explain to you how awful this is and that it’s in terrible taste but why bother to sensor “crackhead” when you’re making light of people dying in front of you of fentanyl every day? i don’t understand this at all. do better
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Ian Laffey
5 months
i have officially entered my studying military strategy era
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Ian Laffey
4 months
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Ian Laffey
5 months
if you’re not worried about national security re: drones you should do some research we need to increase our domestic drone manufacturing and defense capabilities significantly
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
10 months
Super quick demo integrating @pyautogen with @leap_api for Multi Agent Immsersive worlds (in a webapp) ! I actually debugged an issue in the middle of the loom 😆 Plans for this are: Open Source: Work on the UI Improve Web <> Autogen integration Implement the new leap templates
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Ian Laffey
5 months
there’s literally ai on explosive drones and y’all are worried about a chatbot?
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
1 month
I'm so excited about what we're building at Theseus. We have a 150 gram payload solution for GPS-Denied Nav and we are doing our first end user integrations this month. Pic related :)
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
3 months
i will persevere and i will improve and i will succeed
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
14 days
@AviSchiffmann @kodjima33 this is sick and disgusting i cannot even imagine wanting to do this
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Ian Laffey
5 months
testing data: acquired boys are cooking
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
6 months
I’ve started reframing how I feel when I feel like I got really poor value on a purchase to be impressed and analyze how they were able to extract maximum surplus from me in other words never flying spirit again lmao look at the timestamp too 🤦‍♂️
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
3 months
no more night time twitter scroll idgaf about the news i’m reading rf blogs watching embedded systems youtube and studying signal processing i need to be way more cracked
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
6 months
the propaganda potential w/ Dall-E is epic
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
20 days
i’ll always be a cardinals fan
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
4 months
i kiss my girlfriend i make my coffee i solve the linear algebra
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
6 months
i love silly things in life like developing satellite free navigation capabilities and then 4 days later reading russia has a satellite killer good to be ahead of the curve
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
5 months
there’s this crazy thing where in 2024 if you do exactly what you want and work really hard at it great things happen.
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Ian Laffey
1 month
boys trip
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
3 months
workshopping some kinetics for counter UAS
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
10 months
Receiving mentorship from some of the best in the game is such an amazing privilege and I am grateful for it every day. @atbeme and @FurqanR have very, very, high Signal to Noise Ratio...
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
5 months
built a simulator for our visnav module just flew a drone in it using only simulated images sending mock gps serial data shits electric …so much iteration to go! happy saturday!!
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
2 months
i almost prefer when shit doesn't work because i will fix it and it will feel so great when i do
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
3 months
goated office i’m not kidding i’ve never felt more productive in my whole life
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
6 months
i think about this a few times a week
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
3 months
howdy partner, care to join us on some drone flights? the mavics are real rambunctious this time of year
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
3 months
late night at the office. all the drone stuff was a joke btw
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Ian Laffey
3 months
the year is 2024
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
3 months
first successful test flights done gg
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
1 month
working on stuff i care about makes me want to plant my roots as i grow. dog, partner, kids - these are all symptoms of happiness and contentment. i love life!
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
1 year
If you have long conditional, branching chains, LangSmith is a game changer. My observability was such a nightmare, I re-wrote my entire backend using LangChain just for these traces. It was 1000% worth it. It does an amazing job and is a complete game changer.
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LangChain
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🦜⚒️LangSmith SDK Tracing 🕵️‍♀️ We made LangSmith to help instrument any LLM application, no LangChain required😲! This aids in debugging, evaluating, and monitoring your app. Recipe here: 1/8 First, let's talk about traces!
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
2 months
me after living in st. louis for 18 years: dying to find 1 person my age who wants to build cool stuff me after living in montreal for 4 years: trying to find 1 person my age who wants to start a business me after living in sf for 1 year: get intro’s to 3 bug researchers in
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
11 months
Opening my Twitter feed and seeing this is sooooo validating 🥰🥰🥰
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Ian Laffey
4 months
there's literally no better feeling in the world than doing sales for a product u care about
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Ian Laffey
5 months
the fact that it’s relatively normal to give late teens/early twenties 6-7 figures to build awesome stuff is the coolest thing in the world
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Ian Laffey
3 months
office looking sick w the rc cessna
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
11 months
Just fine-tuned GPT to pull One Time Passwords and Confirmation codes out of emails. We have a super slick UI for this in Ultra, and I'm hooking this up with Twilio SMS right now. Curious about Email -> SMS / Push Notification pipeline for sufficiently important emails.
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
3 months
just go harder bro lol
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Ian Laffey
2 months
my gf drew this i think she gets it
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
9 months
Extremely excited to participate in @accelerate_sf hackathon this weekend. I've been reading Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka and to see government encouraging hacking and creative problem solving is badass!
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Ian Laffey
1 month
any good drone / autonomous vehicle conferences coming up? i'm trying to see some cool shit
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
2 months
dude spend 1 day in the linux kernel and you will come out with a profound appreciation for work that others have done on your behalf without you even knowing
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
6 months
POV: you walk in and see me taking a pre-hackathon nap in the Gundo public library after the 6 AM spirit flight from Oakland
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Ian Laffey
5 months
once you are no longer scared for the Y-Combinator interview then you are ready for the Y-Combinator interview
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Ian Laffey
5 months
yea bro... we are basically like tony stark
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Ian Laffey
6 months
if you do cool shit then people want to help you to achieve that cool shit
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Ian Laffey
2 months
x dot com greatest app on the planet
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Ian Laffey
3 months
average desk post american dynamism twitter
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
11 months
changed my life.
@joherkhan
joher khan
11 months
the @fdotinc studio is cooking! We've created a whole pipeline of projects in what we're calling 'pre-studio' These are ideas in their infancy that some epic devs are building out Some will turn into full fledged Studio companies and others we'll shelf.
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@ilaffey2
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1 year
Made a ton of progress! We now have real data. Guest appearances from @lpdahito and @JakobRisley @sachalevy3 on the bass and keys! I mean API routes...
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Ian Laffey
3 months
touched the wrong file and now i get to reinstall ubuntu
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Ian Laffey
12 days
this is what a good day of testing looks like break shit!
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Ian Laffey
1 month
rehistoricalize yourself internalize the fact that you can shape history the world doesn’t happen to you. it isn’t set in stone. events are shaped by people. put yourself back in the context of history and take agency in writing the history of the future
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Ian Laffey
2 months
creation of adam (2024)
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Ian Laffey
2 months
working hard or hardly working
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Ian Laffey
8 months
I'm working on a Saturday night... because I want to. I'm literally so blessed to work with brilliant people on stuff I find interesting. If I was unhappy, I wouldn't be working, because it's not expected of me. I am intrinsically motivated and this makes me happy & fulfilled
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
4 months
be the guy your friends call when they want someone to write code next to till 2am on a saturday
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
1 year
Supabase table with 1,000 users after 7 hours. Lessons: Move to San Francisco. Work with @greeneggshamed
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Ian Laffey
5 months
im listening to yeat and researching my market positioning relative to the DoD demands wbu?
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@ilaffey2
Ian Laffey
6 months
I have developed an intuition for when I am doing something really, really stupid. The only cure for this is trusting my gut and restarting / ripping things out when necessary.
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