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Aaron Vontell

@vontell

Member of Technical Staff @Anthropic - Previously at @RegressionGG @Instabase @Rigetti @MITCSAIL

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opus 4.5 feels like a turning point, and now that it's becoming possible to "create anything" the only differentiator is becoming taste.

28.11.2025 19:10 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Excited to share that I've started a new position as a Member of the Technical Staff at @anthropic.com! Make sure to check out the new Claude Opus and Sonnet 4 models!

24.05.2025 18:24 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

From my testing, Manus definitely seems like the most capable "run with a task" agent I've seen so far. I haven't used it for coding yet, though; only research and content generation. Excited to try it out more!

17.03.2025 14:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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kira ability kit spotlight πŸ¦‹

heartseeker??? i barely even know 'er πŸ₯Έ

05.03.2025 17:52 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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I'm currently working on a tool for lead discovery and understanding. If you are trying to launch your product, I'd love to have you try it out and see what you think. DM me for access! It takes just minutes to set up, and it will automatically start scraping for valuable leads and pain points.

05.03.2025 18:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Top Trending Newsletters (Week of 2/23/2025) This week's top trending newsletters on Newsletter.surf (week of 2/23/2025)

newsletter-surf.beehiiv.com/p/top-trendi...

28.02.2025 19:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Saw this on Hacker News, great app πŸ˜‚

24.02.2025 15:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Want a free backlink (if you've got stuff to sponsor)?

1. Go to stufftosponsor (dot) com
2. Fill out the form with your link

Follow me for more free backlinks πŸ˜‰

#seo #marketing #buildinpublic #backlinks

Mine looks like this

21.02.2025 19:33 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Been building this for a bit and would love to have folks try it out!

19.02.2025 13:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've been building a product that automatically drafts replies to emails directly in your inbox, in your voice. I'm looking for early testersβ€”DM me if you'd like to try it out! Currently, it only supports Gmail.

18.02.2025 15:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Check out my latest blog post!

13.02.2025 20:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I started to use @birdseyeapp.bsky.social for growing @newslettersurf.bsky.social - happy to say it's been working so far!

13.02.2025 17:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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our friends and family playtest was a blast and we were so thrilled to have so many divers participate with us! 🌠 here's some gameplay featuring hoverboards, fishing, and our lovely kira!

12.02.2025 19:13 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I officially launched newsletter.surf a few weeks ago, and seeing people share their newsletters has been incredible. As more newsletters are added, I'm looking to add more features around discovery and filtering based on newsletter content. #buildinpublic

12.02.2025 20:39 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You can also follow the Bluesky account, @birdseyeapp.bsky.social

11.02.2025 17:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Birds Eye - The proactive copilot for founders Go from 0 to 1 with proactive agents that help you manage your startup

Working on something new, a tool to help founders automate a variety of tasks for lead gen, emailing, team management, etc… I have an early MVP that I’d love to get some feedback on. birds-eye.xyz

#founders #automation #copilot

11.02.2025 17:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Birds Eye - The proactive copilot for founders Go from 0 to 1 with proactive agents that help you manage your startup

Are you an early-stage founder looking to increase your possibility of success? Sign up for the Birds Eye waitlist at birds-eye.xyz

Get a birds-eye view of your company and automate the operations that make a difference.

10.02.2025 15:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Newsletter Roundup

Tomorrow, we are launching the FIRST POST for our newsletter, the Newsletter Roundup. Every Tuesday, we'll post brand new newsletters to follow, and every Friday, we'll share some of the top newsletters from the week.

Follow here πŸ‘‰ newsletter-surf.beehiiv.com

30.01.2025 22:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We now have a Bluesky account as well! Follow @newslettersurf.bsky.social

28.01.2025 18:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
newsletter.surf - Discover your next favorite newsletter Web site created using create-react-app

If you haven't seen it already, I have this side project to review and discover newsletters (newsletter.surf)

I have a soft launch and waitlist coming up soon for some new features for newsletter creators, all about understanding your readers. Check it out here! www.newsletter.surf/platform

30.12.2024 21:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Commitment Engineering

Really liked this blog post on Commitment Engineering, was a good take on early product development. www.barry.ooo/posts/commit...

13.12.2024 17:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Procedurally generated puzzle cave - Speedrun attempt #11

11.12.2024 14:14 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

That sound design is amazing… any big roadblocks and/or learnings from doing procedural generation?

11.12.2024 18:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain

09.12.2024 07:13 πŸ‘ 30405 πŸ” 11628 πŸ’¬ 670 πŸ“Œ 2409

Listening to the same podcast right now!

08.12.2024 20:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - vontell/AoC-Claude-Rust: Solving Advent of Code 2024 with LLMs in Rust Solving Advent of Code 2024 with LLMs in Rust. Contribute to vontell/AoC-Claude-Rust development by creating an account on GitHub.

... finally got to a valid solution (it realized it was double counting). This makes me wonder if adding steps to a coding workflow that explicitly asks it to reason about what it is seeing would help in the process. Follow along here: github.com/vontell/AoC-...

08.12.2024 00:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Now caught up to day 4 of #AdventOfCode entirely using Claude/LLMs, and for the first time the LLM didn't one-shot the problem. Actually, I let it iterate on various failed tests (that it wrote) 4-5 times. It wasn't until I explicitly asked it to explain what kind of error it was getting that it...

08.12.2024 00:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What do you think the daily traffic to captive.apple.com is

07.12.2024 02:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Definitely agree on this. It gets interesting to me when it's difficult to determine whether the shot went in or was close. An example I've been thinking about - if I generate 5 blog posts for a topic, how do I determine which one is best? Maybe an LLM evaluator? But how do I know if they are close😬

06.12.2024 14:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Almost at 100 followers... follow me if you are also interested in AI, games, and startups!

06.12.2024 14:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0