Sam Hogan
He Coded His Own AI Employees
Find the edge by testing for it. The companies operating at scale aren't fully delegating to agents, no matter what the weekly demo says.
The Guest
CEO & Co-Founder of inference.net, building custom AI models and the inference infrastructure to run them at scale.
The Stack Monitor — 16 tools
Hover for notesThe Old-Fashioned Way
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SlackFirst thing, on my phone, by thumb. No agents. For email there's no substitute.— Sam
Apple NotesOne note, over a year old, holding everything I've ever had to do. My EA has edit access.— Sam
The Bot Org Chart
4- Vibe coded over Christmas. Slack, email, CRM, DocuSign — plus a hiring tab that deep-researches every applicant.— SamGGator
- Bernie on the team. Multiplayer — one engineer prompts, another hops into the same session.— SamBBurn-E
Claude CodeIn the mix. We standardized on OpenCode so we can swap models.— Sam
OpenCodeConfigurable enough to swap models. That's why we standardized on it.— Sam
Where the Human Stays
5- Planning happens here. Consensus, then Linear. Never the other way around.— SamWWhiteboard
LinearA Slack bot turns planning transcripts into tickets. Tickets can go to agents for a first-pass PR.— Sam
GhosttyWhere I spend most of the day.— Sam
Wispr FlowDictation into the terminal. I use AI as an editor, not a writer.— Sam
CursorSmall copy changes I'd rather do by hand. Forty minutes into an agent session you keep going because you're so close.— Sam
In Production
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CatalystSelf-service fine-tuning for the small models we actually run in production.— Sam- Our open-sourced HTML-to-JSON extraction model.— SamSSchematron
- Home-built. One of five bots next to ten humans — about $20K a month.— SamGGo-4
PostHogProduction telemetry. Find the edge by testing for it.— Sam
CloudflareR2, plus the sandboxes Bernie runs in.— Sam
In Their Words
“For a lot of things, it's just faster to do it yourself, frankly. In the last two or three weeks, we've started relying on them a little bit less than we were at the start of the year.”
“There's a new Twitter demo every week that's like, I built a company that's fully run by agents. I don't think anyone operating at scale or building complex products is really operating like that.”
“I use AI not really to write, but more as an editor. Once I'm done, I'll go through it and edit out all the AI stuff.”