Jack Ryan
@jmfryan.bsky.social
Principal engineer at Intercom. Father of two. Not a secret agent.
It’s all a conspiracy by big water
October 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It’s all a conspiracy by big water
2x is where we landed at Intercom. There are real ways in which AI can speed things up. But for every micro task that it does 100x faster than a human there are a ton of things it cant (yet) do at all.
fin.ai/ideas/2x/
fin.ai/ideas/2x/
2x
What follows is a version of an email I sent our entire R&D team about an explicit goal and deliberate action we’ll take to become twice as productive through our embrace of AI. Advancements in AI are...
fin.ai
July 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
2x is where we landed at Intercom. There are real ways in which AI can speed things up. But for every micro task that it does 100x faster than a human there are a ton of things it cant (yet) do at all.
fin.ai/ideas/2x/
fin.ai/ideas/2x/
It lets you *delete time* from your life. Coupled with high speed air travel this is the closest we are getting to teleportation in my lifetime.
March 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It lets you *delete time* from your life. Coupled with high speed air travel this is the closest we are getting to teleportation in my lifetime.
What a terrible day to have eyes
March 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
What a terrible day to have eyes
Embrace the third way. Free rain!
March 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Embrace the third way. Free rain!
It’s rapidly falling out of my top 10 insane things that happened this week to be honest.
February 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
It’s rapidly falling out of my top 10 insane things that happened this week to be honest.
Look at those icons, bitmaps, and cursors!
February 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Look at those icons, bitmaps, and cursors!
Why is it always the third way you try?
December 24, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Why is it always the third way you try?
You can actually set it to any font on your system using /slackfont <fontname>, if you are particular about which monospace font to use. Doesn’t persist across restarts though.
December 10, 2024 at 6:24 PM
You can actually set it to any font on your system using /slackfont <fontname>, if you are particular about which monospace font to use. Doesn’t persist across restarts though.
I’ve only had it a very short
amount of time. Seems great so far.
Watching something go from the screen to a real object feels magical.
amount of time. Seems great so far.
Watching something go from the screen to a real object feels magical.
December 10, 2024 at 8:06 AM
I’ve only had it a very short
amount of time. Seems great so far.
Watching something go from the screen to a real object feels magical.
amount of time. Seems great so far.
Watching something go from the screen to a real object feels magical.
Bambu A1. It’s reasonably priced and by all accounts very easy to use.
December 10, 2024 at 7:53 AM
Bambu A1. It’s reasonably priced and by all accounts very easy to use.
It does look like it, but no. It’s the standard test of a 3d printer, called 3DBenchy
December 9, 2024 at 6:58 PM
It does look like it, but no. It’s the standard test of a 3d printer, called 3DBenchy
