What are your thoughts on using agents to write and handle your emails?
Readit Newsjeffkumar commented on Agentic Email martinfowler.com/bliki/Ag... · Posted by u/jeffkumar
It's hard not to be jealous.
What he did is incredible, he grabbed attention of the tech community like no other...however good or bad he was at it and making it secure.
He was curious and experimental and got lucky!
jeffkumar commented on Can I get a six pack?:-) youtube.com/watch?v=kQRu7... · Posted by u/jeffkumar
Opus 4.5 is shredded! I hope this doesn't cause anyone to get a little nervous.
Great insights Namanyay!
I feel the same way about needing to build platforms that enable companies to build on top. That's why i'm building adventureflow.ai to enable energy companies to build their agentic workflows directly on top of my platform.
The expectations have completely changed now, customers expect more software for less, because it is 5-10x cheaper now or faster to build and there's no changing that. Tools like Opus 4.5 have completely disrupted the software marketplace!
jeffkumar commented on Why software stocks are getting pummelled economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/petethomas
> The fear is that these [AI] tools are allowing companies to create much of the software they need themselves.
AI-generated code still requires software engineers to build, test, debug, deploy, secure, monitor, be on-call, support, handle incidents, and so on. That's very expensive. It is much cheaper to pay a small monthly fee to a SaaS company.
I disagree. I think that DHH proved that is not the case with the AWS bill. They saved millions by getting off of it. As software is now 10x cheaper to create, it's going to really wipe enterprise value away from the incumbents. There's going to be companies in the middle where they are fed up with their bills and they innovate in house and get ahead building solutions that are even closer to what they want. Thankfully, this is good for the software market and gives jobs to all those who were laid off at the big tech companies. At least, that's my hope.
Originally I was the one who put all the email addresses into linkedin to begin with (in fact back when I started using linkedin, you needed their valid address to link up with them). So it's my own contact info list, or was. Since I couldn't get the info back out, I ultimately deleted my linkedin account.
I think this is the point that most people miss in the first place!
LinkedIn harvested peoples contacts under the guise that they were going to help you find connections, but instead they spammed your entire contact list through their outlook plugin and now when you try to get your lists and contacts out they make it extremely painful.
Did you confirm with each of your contacts that they want to be on your direct outreach list? If not, why should you be able to de-platform with their emails?
I don’t think this is about ignoring consent. It’s about who controls relationships. These are mutual, first-degree connections, and the emails are intentionally visible to me.
LinkedIn isn’t protecting people from misuse here; it’s preventing portability. If the concern were outreach consent, that could be handled with clearer user controls. Blocking access entirely keeps relationships dependent on the platform, which conveniently aligns with their business incentives.
you can upload a csv of linkedin connections to a Clay table then use a data provider like FullEnrich to get emails and other profile info.
Could also use a tool like n8n instead of Clay or build your own system to read the csv and make api calls to enrichment service
This is interesting! What would you recommend first?