Dharmesh Shah
dharmesh.com
Dharmesh Shah
@dharmesh.com
Co-founder and CTO of HubSpot
Startups:

If you're going to allow anyone to live rent free in your head, let it be your customers and not your competitors.
May 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The one thing better than coding on a long flight is vibe coding on a long flight.

Playing with the new Codex agent from OpenAI.

Works pretty well.
May 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Stressed about a keynote presentation I'm working on for an 8,000+ audience tomorrow.

Already have 90 fast-paced slides for a 30 min talk.

Here's one of them.
May 13, 2025 at 5:51 AM
It used to be that the more "agentic" an AI agent was, the less predictable it got. That's why so many the early AI agents were deterministic workflows.

Now with reasoning models like OpenAI o3, we can create more agentic agents. Exciting!
April 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Reposted by Dharmesh Shah
I'mm... not great at writing prompts yet.

so, STOKED to find an agent to write better prompts: agent.ai/agent/llm-fe...

try it!

write & run a prompt on your AI tool(s)
then improve & run your prompt to compare results

better now?

thanks @alexblackmon137.bsky.social Agent.ai &
@dharmesh.com!
LLM-Feature-Activation Prompt Generator | Agent.AI
LLM-Feature-Activation Prompt Generator: Run this other agent on Agent.AI.
agent.ai
April 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
In the future, the most successful software companies will be those that have a network effect.

The degree of success will be proportional to the strength of the network.

Writing/generating code is getting easier and easier.

Creating connections is still hard -- and valuable.
March 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Don't drink and vibe.
March 18, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Yesterday: Trust but verify.

Today: Vibe but verify.

Tomorrow: Vibe.
March 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"Photos or it didn't happen" ~someone

"APIs or the LLM didn't launch" ~me
February 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Be an imperfectionist.

Imperfectionists hit publish.

Imperfectionists ship product.

Imperfectionists iterate publicly.

It's not that they don't believe in excellence.

They dream big, but iterate small.
February 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Woo hoo! agent.ai (the professional network for AI agents) now has 500,000+ users. This is about 10X growth in 6 months.

If you are one of those that has used the site and tried out some agents, thank you.

Appreciate the support.
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February 3, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Reposted by Dharmesh Shah
Mind blown: I just realized that file extensions are type annotations.
January 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Still haven't been able to retrain my brain to fit content in 280 characters.

So, I posted this on that other social network:
x.com/dharmesh/sta...

Working with the best makes you better.

In the future, your human colleagues + your AI colleagues will define your career.
x.com
x.com
January 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Just posted my latest article to my AI Newsletter (which now has crossed the 400k subscriber mark!)

AI and Blockchain: Two Predictions:
simple.ai/p/when-ai-me...

1) Agent-to-Agent Economics

2) Global Identity for AI Agents
AI and Blockchain: Two Predictions
How blockchain might make AI agents work better
simple.ai
January 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
In the future, it's agents all the way down.
January 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Reposted by Dharmesh Shah
Happy #Python New Year!
December 31, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Launching a new alpha project here on Bluesky before twitter/X and LinkedIn.

I've been working on a personal digital agent that's my digital clone (or digital twin).

It can answer questions like I would (often better).

Please try it out: dharmesh.ai. All feedback appreciated.
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January 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Bluesky is tackling one of the biggest challenges there is:

Somebody else's network effect.

Will be interesting to see if there's enough differentiation to pull over those that have large followings on other networks.

Or maybe, that's not needed for Bluesky to succeed?
December 26, 2024 at 4:48 PM
When talking about going back to "first principles", remember that it's not *your* first principles you should be going back to -- it's the *universe's* first principles.

It's not about what you believe, it's about what we all collectively know.

That's true "first principles" thinking.
December 25, 2024 at 6:43 AM
Founder 1: What should we call the company?

Founder 2: Looks up briefly while coding away, 'let's just call it Fluffy Waddlebottoms for now. We'll come up with something better later."

...5 years later...

Fluffy Waddlebottoms, Inc. rings the bell on the New York Stock Exchange.
December 23, 2024 at 5:40 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Minutes ago, on the 12th day of "shipmas", @OpenAI announces their new o3 models.

o3 is much, much more than a "fancy auto-complete". :) It can reason through complicated problems. Is it Artificial General Intelligence? I don't know. But it's certainly Awesomely Great Intelligence.
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December 20, 2024 at 7:42 PM
I like that Bluesky already has a reasonably easy to use API.

Going to build a simple AI agent for agent.ai that allows me to select some of my better posts on twitter/X and bring them over here.
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December 1, 2024 at 5:54 PM
One thing I really like about Bluesky is that it supports usernames using confirmed domain ownership (so I'm @dharmesh.com here).

This is a clever way to leverage an existing system that is well understood as an alternative.

I wish all social networks supported this.
dharmesh.com
Personal website for Dharmesh Shah, co-founder and CTO of HubSpot.
dharmesh.com
December 1, 2024 at 5:53 PM