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Otto Hilska @mutru

Founder and CEO of @SwarmiaHQ — engineering intelligence for agentic organizations. Experienced CTO & CPO. Angel investor. Ex-Flowdock & @smartlyio. 🇫🇮🇺🇸 mutru.net New York, NY Joined December 2008
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Otto Hilska @mutru

4 days ago

@Steve_Yegge Using Fable has been very stressful for this reason. I always try to pause my workflows at ~98%. If I overshoot, I can’t even use the desktop Claude for any questions for a few hours.

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Otto Hilska @mutru

6 days ago

@GergelyOrosz A few years ago the Finnish gov kindly sponsored the software industry by increasing the VAT rate from 24 to 25.5%. Until then, everyone had stored it as an integer.

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Otto Hilska @mutru

a week ago

@TheEinarkist @JesperBylund I asked a bunch of Finnish friends if they could access the video 8 hours ago, and none of them could. It works for me fine from the US.

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Otto Hilska @mutru

3 weeks ago

Ehdin vihdoin käydä tämän ajatuksella läpi, ja olin kyllä positiivisesti yllättynyt. Tuntuu että kaikki tärkeät pointit on huomioitu, minimissään mainittuna. Johtopäätöksen kanssa ("pullonkaulana johtaminen, ei teknologia") olen samoilla linjoilla, mutta siitä on tärkeää huomioida toinen puoli: tässä ollaan ihan saman ongelman äärellä kuin "digitalisaatiossa". Organisaation pitää saada muutosjohdettua prosessit uuteen uskoon, ja jonkun pitää toimittaa ohjelmisto joka auttaa sen prosessin pyörittämisessä. Valtion laitoksilla on usein vajavainen kyvykkyys tähän. Iso osa tekoälyn implementoinnista on perinteistä ja tylsää ohjelmistojen ja prosessien tekemistä. Tekoäly tekee monesta projektista enemmän kokeellisen ja riskialttiin, kun etukäteen ei tiedetä miten hyviä tuloksia se tuottaa. Hankintalaki ja virastojen halukkuus tehdä ohjelmistoja ketterästi on oleellisessa osassa. Jotkut toimijat (esim. Verottaja, Opetusministeriö, ehkä Kela) tuntuvat jo ymmärtävän tämän, kaikki varmasti eivät.

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Otto Hilska @mutru

3 weeks ago

@SlackHQ The new Activity view is an amazing improvement. One thing that would make it better: the same thread can appear multiple times (for example the original post and a reply). It would help to allow deduplicating threads from the list.

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Otto Hilska @mutru

4 weeks ago

@dharmesh @jasonlk The schema API would also allow someone to create a Terraform provider for HubSpot. The product deserves a proper versioned and grep’able configuration that’s maintainable for the long term.

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Otto Hilska @mutru

4 weeks ago

Thanks for the response! My most recent frustrations: I'd like to automate cleanup of CRM data, but I can't get access to the schema from the API. I would like to use Claude to find and eliminate duplicate properties etc. Similarly, if I could access Workflows from APIs, I could use Claude to make sense of them. Practically all sales automations would benefit from using LLM to create pre-written emails as tasks for sales reps, so that they could edit the drafts and send them.

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Otto Hilska @mutru

2 months ago

For 15+ years I've built engineering teams off roughly the same playbook. This spring, our team doubled its output with no extra headcount — and I realized the playbook itself had to change. So I got hands-on. Between meetings (I do still have a day job as CEO) I shipped 100+ PRs to production, to feel where the old way breaks. The short version: the engineer's job is shifting from delivering a product to delivering the system that delivers the product. I wrote up what we changed: how to move from local to global optimizations, what happens to quality when agents write almost all the code, and whether different types of work now need different processes. swarmia.com/blog/the-new-w…

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Otto Hilska @mutru

3 months ago

@bcherny One thing that's painful with the current version: diffs are very limited. I can't find a way to see the staged files vs. whole-branch diff. It also shows deleted files as full diffs by default, expands package-lock.json style files, etc. Otherwise, great job!

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Otto Hilska @mutru

4 months ago

@zeeg If agents would get you out of any kind of technical debt, every large company would be currently moving like a startup. But none of them are.

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Otto Hilska @mutru

4 months ago

@jasonbosco Ask AI to come up with a weekly architecture quiz for your developers. ✅ Solved.

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Otto Hilska @mutru

4 months ago

@___4o____ The three main reasons for downtime: 1. You changed something and broke it. 2. Critical infrastructure was down. 3. Usage increased more than expected. AI slop could cause issues with nr. 1, but you have to appreciate how much scale these products are getting. Not an easy job.

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Otto Hilska @mutru

4 months ago

@claudeai Our small team shipped 874 PRs last month, so that's a solid $20k monthly bill. The ROI calculation is going to be interesting, because code review doesn't only exist for finding bugs — you also need to verify that the software does something valuable.

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Otto Hilska @mutru

5 months ago

Here's a typical flow of signing into Deel: 1) Login with Google on desktop 2) Google wants my physical 2FA device 3) Deel wants another 2FA from mobile app 4) Mobile app updates and loses login info 5) Login with Google, enter password 6) Google wants my physical 2FA device on mobile 7) Use Authenticator to log in on mobile 7) The auth notification has disappeared 8) Send it again and tap it on mobile, still doesn't work 9) Use Authenticator to log in on desktop 10) "Your login session has timed out, try again" 11) Go to step 1

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Otto Hilska @mutru

6 months ago

@GergelyOrosz I’ve found that asking about dates is a pretty good line of questioning in an interview. If you’ve spent a lot of time writing software, either you’ve faced some of these challenges or your code is full of bugs. gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9…

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Otto Hilska @mutru

6 months ago

@karrisaarinen @zeddotdev @claudeai Same thing here, and I’m having the time of my life. 😀

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Otto Hilska @mutru

7 months ago

If your bottleneck is not writing code, it will be something else. Reviewing code, releasing changes, training your own customer-facing teams, or ultimately your customers’ tolerance for change.

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7 months ago

guys at @cursor_ai can you please slow down with changing the ui every 2 days? i'm like constantly confused between the agent and editor, feels like the buttons change every day. just make a decision and stick with it becaus re-learning ui every day suuuucks

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Otto Hilska @mutru

8 months ago

@ivanhzhao @andyorsow I copy meeting notes (multiple levels of bullet points) from Notion to Slack quite often, and the indentation needs to be manually fixed. Can’t tell if Slack is the problem, but it works from Google Docs to Slack.

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Otto Hilska @mutru

9 months ago

Measuring AI coding tool productivity hits the same hurdles we've faced in developer productivity for a decade. Well-meaning and easy-to-measure metrics turn out to be misleading. When someone says that AI writes 90% of the code, it may sound like you can now reduce your engineering headcount by that much. But that's not what it means. In reality it doesn't matter who wrote the code. Someone had to understand the context, drive the process, and check the work. AI likely saved you some time from writing the code, but the AI didn't do it by itself. Focusing too much on AI-generated code might also cause some cultural issues. "I didn't write this code, it was AI." You should be clear that the developer and the team still owns all code they ship, no matter how the code was written.

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