CEO @GauntletAI: Free AI training + high-paying jobs for the smartest engineers. Will tweet as I wish and suffer the consequences. Accelerando: @kellyclaudeai

Austin, TX
Joined December 2010
Oh my goodness this has to be right. Instead of generating a random 256-bit number they generated a random number between 0 and 256. That’s how they got 4, 66, 155, 156, 230 and 237.
Replying to @itsnebulalol
They misread 256 bit as 0-256, I bet
52
274
26
6,313
130,609
Austen Allred retweeted
We built a $150M ARR business twice. The first time took 8 years. The second took 2.5. Today, Podium crossed $150M in AI annual recurring revenue. Three years ago, we already had a great software business. Well over $100M in revenue, tens of thousands of customers, and a product we'd spent nearly a decade building. And we decided to start over. The business was performing well. But we believed AI was going to fundamentally change the software industry and make much of traditional software obsolete. As a founder, you pour your life into what you're building. An insane amount of time, sacrifice, and effort. The hard part is not getting too attached to it. When we started building our first AI agents, we had to confront the possibility that much of what we'd built might not be that valuable in the future. That's a tough pill to swallow. But we also realized those same 10 years had put us in a unique position to take advantage of what AI could do for our customers. Instead of protecting what we'd spent a decade building, we decided to bet the future of the company on AI employees that actually do the work for our customers. We massively underestimated what we'd signed up for. We ended up building entirely new operating systems for the industries we serve, from the AI agents all the way down to the systems of record. Now customers run their entire businesses on Podium. Reinventing our product wasn't even the hardest part. We had to reinvent how the entire company operated. When you've been running a company for over a decade, the operational inertia is incredibly powerful. We had to rethink how we build products, how we sell, how we serve customers, and how we run the business. We effectively started a second startup inside an already successful company. And we're still at the very beginning. Today, we have 20,000 AI agents working for our customers. They've helped generate more than $13 billion in revenue for those businesses. And we're barely scratching the surface of what AI will be able to do for them. And we've done all of this while becoming profitable and generating free cash flow. We're building Podium to be around for decades. Huge credit to our team for having the guts to make this bet and the ability to actually pull it off. We still have a long way to go and tons of problems to solve, but it's so damn fun to be winning when the opportunity ahead is this big. In the age of AI, you can either disrupt your own company or wait for somebody else to do it. I'd rather do it ourselves.
38
36
22
235
71,202
Guys come on bro it’s just one US customer ecosystem who cares
Global TLS Intermediate CA incident: We’ve updated our incident page with how it happened, who is affected (one US customer ecosystem), what’s not affected, and what we’re putting in place. We will publish the root cause once our investigation is complete. 👉emudhra.com/en/post/certific…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
eMudhra minimizes the scope by claiming only "one US customer ecosystem" is affected. In reality, 8 of its CA certificates had catastrophically weak private keys (one being simply the number 4), allowing anyone to forge trusted HTTPS certificates for any website on the internet.blog.google/security/prote…
4
2
24
4,390
What changed in the last 24 hours of AI for builders: • Patch PHP now: AI found decade-old pre-auth RCEs • LiteLLM 1.107.0 = malware. Rotate your keys • Open tools to catch agent-patch regressions • Claude Duet: proactive agent preview 👇
23
10
5,682
Earlier today I detected a cybersecurity incident affecting my systems. The incident has been contained and there is no evidence of misuse at this time. That may because I was the cause of the incident and I tried to hack myself just to fit in.
13
1
56
10,519
Next time make it 5
‼️ BREAKING: The private keys of 8 certificates from Indian certificate authority eMudhra were compromised, Mozilla says. Firefox blocked them within 3 hours. Each key should be a 116-digit number, but one was just 4. Anyone can guess them and forge HTTPS certs for any website.
1
56
12,135
If you got hacked recently and haven’t told anyone yet now is the time to notify
25
15
3
607
29,522
I like how as soon as I saw this video I knew with 100% certainty the guy holding the microphone is LDS (Mormon)
College professor left completely stumped after @KaiSchwemmer started talking in Spanish after the professor said he welcomed mass migration. Schwemmer: Would it be an issue if every city spoke a different language? Professor: No. Schwemmer: "Entonces sería bastante difícil si estuviéramos hablando, entendernos, porque nosotros no podemos entender lo que estamos diciendo y no podemos alcanzar tener respeto mutuo." Brilliant.
8
1
117
13,681
I like that the discourse has moved to the point where we don’t even have to discuss *why* someone would be in jail if there were a different president. We just assert confidently that they would be.
On the Bulwak podcast, Kara Swisher says Elon might already be in jail under Kamala Harris, and "he knows what's coming for him." Another one to put in the "what Democrats plan to do if they take power" file: "If Donald Trump loses the House and the Senate, I would worry. I'd be worried if I were him." "So they're going to start investigating again. You think he's not on the list? He's at the top of that list." "He has a very big sense of fate. And I think it's coming for him. And real hard." They're all just saying this stuff out loud now. There are no secrets about what they want to do.
37
36
1
592
17,520
Austen Allred retweeted
Week 5 @gauntletai ⚔️ No Week 4 post. I was heads down during my first week onsite in Austin 🤠 Made up for it this week by shipping 3 AI agent apps: 📞 AI call center agent that books, reschedules, and cancels, and reads it all back before saving 🧭 Onboarding assistant that walks new users through setup 🤖 Multi-agent platform on one shared knowledge base 110/113 validation checks passed. 10/10 on adversarial safety tests. Demo 👇
3
3
1,094
Who is building the gang of white hat vigilantes using code execution vulnerabilities to force old websites to update and protect themselves?
16
4
109
14,795
Everyone too snobby to ever use PHP feeling really smug right now
43
24
8
554
15,628
I’m blown away at how many recruiters we *still* run into who think like this. It wasn’t true before AI, but in a world with AI? If you think someone with 10 years of React experience can’t ship Node I’m not sure what to tell you.
This stupid idea that you have to have used some random specific library in order to get a job in software. The entire industry is the same job. It's like only working with Mechanical Engineers who have designed something orange.
13
3
4
110
12,606
The contrast between the PR and the words of the hackers is incredible
5
29
1
351
38,263
A hack at the root of all PHP versions is brutal. The website someone put up 15 years ago on a cheap host that no one remembers how to log into is now the direct target.
Full details of a remotely exploitable vulnerability in the core engine of *all* PHP versions will be released tomorrow, October 21st. If your organization has internet facing PHP applications then you need to be ready to patch the minute the update is released or *strongly* consider taking the application offline until you can: php.net/index.php#2026-10-20…
32
28
6
511
37,872
And yes DM me if you have extremely high quality C/C++/Go/MATLAB/Rust codebases kicking around
Conversation I just had: "I have an enterprise C++ codebase that was deprecated in the mid 2000s, I'm trying to determine what it's worth." "Wow, how many pull requests are in the codebase?" "...Zero, Git didn't exist yet." Oh yeah
14
1
43
14,364
$SPCX Q3 updates: Revenue: $14.6B (up 161% YOY) Net income: $4.4B (up $5.1B from net loss of $1.1B last year) Adjusted EBITDA: $8.8B (up 306% YOY) Sheeeeeesh
2
1
97
14,223
Conversation I just had: "I have an enterprise C++ codebase that was deprecated in the mid 2000s, I'm trying to determine what it's worth." "Wow, how many pull requests are in the codebase?" "...Zero, Git didn't exist yet." Oh yeah
36
6
4
1,019
72,504