[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @spenserskates Spenser Skates Spenser Skates posts on X about state of, andrej, capabilities, saas the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1053497479/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX +97% - X Month XXXXXXX +30,032% - X Months XXXXXXX +2,944% - X Year XXXXXXX +213% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1053497479/posts_active)  ### Followers: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1053497479/followers)  - X Week XXXXX +8.70% - X Month XXXXX +14% - X Months XXXXX +32% - X Year XXXXX +36% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1053497479/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::1053497479/influence) --- **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) #866 [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [state of](/topic/state-of) #11, [andrej](/topic/andrej) #7, [capabilities](/topic/capabilities) #8, [saas](/topic/saas) #18, [money](/topic/money) 3.33%, [imperfect](/topic/imperfect) 3.33%, [ais](/topic/ais) 3.33%, [all the](/topic/all-the) 3.33%, [palantir](/topic/palantir) 3.33%, [farming](/topic/farming) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@jasonlk](/creator/undefined) [@anneleeskates](/creator/undefined) [@zachalberico](/creator/undefined) [@gdeglin](/creator/undefined) [@amplitudehq](/creator/undefined) [@lukepuplett](/creator/undefined) [@jonathanmendez](/creator/undefined) [@doitchoco](/creator/undefined) [@brezina](/creator/undefined) [@philikon](/creator/undefined) [@thepeelpod](/creator/undefined) [@kpgrit](/creator/undefined) [@_sonith](/creator/undefined) [@sonith](/creator/undefined) [@elonmusk](/creator/undefined) [@daraladje](/creator/undefined) [@sequoia](/creator/undefined) [@withdelphi](/creator/undefined) [@twilio](/creator/undefined) [@segment](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::1053497479/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Lessons from building AI products at Amplitude: We've found that AI products that that replicate or augment an existing workflow tend to work a lot better than ones that try to invent new ones out of whole cloth. Watching humans try to solve a problem and getting an agent to follow the same set of steps has a much higher chance of success than creating a fully net new flow. You have to be very specific about the reasoning of a human and not expect any magic out of an LLM. LLMs are trained on human created data after all so it makes sense that copying what they do has the highest chance of" [X Link](https://x.com/spenserskates/status/1978731146016940299) [@spenserskates](/creator/x/spenserskates) 2025-10-16T07:54Z 7802 followers, 15.3K engagements "The State of AI in SaaS: SaaS is Dead Long Live SaaS This started as an analysis of Andrej Karpathy's excellent overview of AI's capabilities. Those who deeply understand this will make all the returns and everyone else will lose a lot of money. "Ghosts" is a brilliant metaphor for what we've created. They're not animals and they're definitely not human. They are imperfect replicas of us. Karpathy describes them as a "statistical distillation of humanity's documents". AI channels that distribution more effectively than any human and can beat us at Go schoolwork analyzing medical images and" [X Link](https://x.com/spenserskates/status/1979890627136688177) [@spenserskates](/creator/x/spenserskates) 2025-10-19T12:41Z 7801 followers, 284.6K engagements "Ideas to 10x Amplitude from tonight's dinner: 1) AI chat prompt analytics 2) Self improving products (self fixing first) 3) Be Palantir 4) Dogfooding to Make Amplitude Great 5) Amplitude hedge fund 6) Redacted 7) AGI" [X Link](https://x.com/spenserskates/status/1976542392259146066) [@spenserskates](/creator/x/spenserskates) 2025-10-10T06:56Z 7797 followers, 21.3K engagements "It seems like everyone we know in their mid 30s in the Bay Area is moving to the suburbs to get a big yard and lots of living space for their kids. @anneleeskates and I are working in SF X days a week and are considering the opposite: giving up our place in Atherton to go big in SF. Is there anyone with kids who has made that move" [X Link](https://x.com/spenserskates/status/1977491789394403548) [@spenserskates](/creator/x/spenserskates) 2025-10-12T21:49Z 7796 followers, 187.4K engagements "A limited-edition $X coin honoring Norman Borlaug will be released by the US Mint in 2026. Inscribed with "FATHER OF THE GREEN REVOLUTION". "This design depicts Dr. Norman Borlaug holding a sheaf of wheat and wheat stalks highlighting his pioneering work developing resilient crops capable of feeding a growing global population." Norman Borlaug's story is amazing. He brought modern farming practices to Mexico and created a new strain of high yield disease resistant dwarf wheat at quadrupled wheat production in the country. He then went on to do the same in India Pakistan and Africa. The sum" [X Link](https://x.com/spenserskates/status/1979082145877434554) [@spenserskates](/creator/x/spenserskates) 2025-10-17T07:08Z 7801 followers, XXX engagements "Andrej Karpathy's excellent overview on the state of AI capabilities: -AGI timelines are overly optimistic (and the skeptics are wrong) -Animals vs ghosts -The industry is overshooting with LLM agents" [X Link](https://x.com/spenserskates/status/1979890633537122344) [@spenserskates](/creator/x/spenserskates) 2025-10-19T12:41Z 7801 followers, 10.3K engagements "Automated Insights: Having AI find the root cause of an issue by running multiple iterative segmentation analyses of a chart. Eg what caused this recent spike in traffic segmenting by country traffic source campaign etc. this particular piece of content caused a spike. As you point out you need to also link back to a chart that shows that insight vs only presenting text. We're seeing high retention with our beta testers of this feature. All the examples from other companies I've seen like Tableau/Adobe/Google are going about it completely wrong by summarizing the existing chart and that's it." [X Link](https://x.com/spenserskates/status/1979907927420133395) [@spenserskates](/creator/x/spenserskates) 2025-10-19T13:50Z 7801 followers, 2741 engagements "@jasonlk @gradypb Yeah not only is AI the only thing that is capturing any budget it's actively eating other budgets" [X Link](https://x.com/spenserskates/status/1979932948469055764) [@spenserskates](/creator/x/spenserskates) 2025-10-19T15:29Z 7797 followers, XXX engagements "I'm super bullish on AI reshaping SaaS. We acquired X companies and re-orged product development twice this year to do it properly. The AGI magical thinking + SaaS is dead narrative drives me nuts so I came across more bearish than I meant to. I think most domains can map it's just a hard product problem to get right as you call out. I think the data parts are relatively easy. Specifically I think the user interface problem is hard. Most companies I see are slapping a thin layer on top vs rebuilding the interface. The other mistake I see is companies throwing out the interface and the years" [X Link](https://x.com/spenserskates/status/1979948030544793641) [@spenserskates](/creator/x/spenserskates) 2025-10-19T16:29Z 7802 followers, 3450 engagements "@jonathanmendez @Madhur_Yadav @Amplitude_HQ @karpathy The key is filtering the right data to the LLM. Once you send it too much it loses track of what's going on (even with larger context windows)" [X Link](https://x.com/spenserskates/status/1979954976261869947) [@spenserskates](/creator/x/spenserskates) 2025-10-19T16:57Z 7801 followers, XXX engagements "@DOitChoco Yo can I invest" [X Link](https://x.com/spenserskates/status/1979949231940182078) [@spenserskates](/creator/x/spenserskates) 2025-10-19T16:34Z 7771 followers, XXX engagements "Congratulations to Adam and team for raising BoostVC Fund X. Adam was the first venture capitalist to believe in us. For the longest time I was convinced he invested in Sonalight because we were the lamest company in YCW12. I later realized he was playing the long game with us as founders. He was excited when we pivoted to Amplitude and the rest is history. Adam sees incredible founders and markets before anyone else does and goes long with them. Congratulations on BoostVC Fund 4" [X Link](https://x.com/spenserskates/status/1973084740627603797) [@spenserskates](/creator/x/spenserskates) 2025-09-30T17:57Z 7797 followers, 5612 engagements "@rpatm @petergyang You need to reduce the number of dimensions the AI can query on. It helps that behavioral data has a particular structure and we have opinions on how you should query it. That makes it a much more tractable problem than "find me an insight" in a generic dataset" [X Link](https://x.com/spenserskates/status/1980083095840952512) [@spenserskates](/creator/x/spenserskates) 2025-10-20T01:26Z 7801 followers, XX engagements
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@spenserskates Spenser Skates
Spenser Skates posts on X about state of, andrej, capabilities, saas the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Engagements: XXXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXX +97%
- X Month XXXXXXX +30,032%
- X Months XXXXXXX +2,944%
- X Year XXXXXXX +213%
Mentions: XX #
Followers: XXXXX #
- X Week XXXXX +8.70%
- X Month XXXXX +14%
- X Months XXXXX +32%
- X Year XXXXX +36%
CreatorRank: XXXXXX #
Social Influence #
Social category influence finance #866 technology brands XXXX%
Social topic influence state of #11, andrej #7, capabilities #8, saas #18, money 3.33%, imperfect 3.33%, ais 3.33%, all the 3.33%, palantir 3.33%, farming XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @jasonlk @anneleeskates @zachalberico @gdeglin @amplitudehq @lukepuplett @jonathanmendez @doitchoco @brezina @philikon @thepeelpod @kpgrit @_sonith @sonith @elonmusk @daraladje @sequoia @withdelphi @twilio @segment
Top Social Posts #
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"Lessons from building AI products at Amplitude: We've found that AI products that that replicate or augment an existing workflow tend to work a lot better than ones that try to invent new ones out of whole cloth. Watching humans try to solve a problem and getting an agent to follow the same set of steps has a much higher chance of success than creating a fully net new flow. You have to be very specific about the reasoning of a human and not expect any magic out of an LLM. LLMs are trained on human created data after all so it makes sense that copying what they do has the highest chance of"
X Link @spenserskates 2025-10-16T07:54Z 7802 followers, 15.3K engagements
"The State of AI in SaaS: SaaS is Dead Long Live SaaS This started as an analysis of Andrej Karpathy's excellent overview of AI's capabilities. Those who deeply understand this will make all the returns and everyone else will lose a lot of money. "Ghosts" is a brilliant metaphor for what we've created. They're not animals and they're definitely not human. They are imperfect replicas of us. Karpathy describes them as a "statistical distillation of humanity's documents". AI channels that distribution more effectively than any human and can beat us at Go schoolwork analyzing medical images and"
X Link @spenserskates 2025-10-19T12:41Z 7801 followers, 284.6K engagements
"Ideas to 10x Amplitude from tonight's dinner: 1) AI chat prompt analytics 2) Self improving products (self fixing first) 3) Be Palantir 4) Dogfooding to Make Amplitude Great 5) Amplitude hedge fund 6) Redacted 7) AGI"
X Link @spenserskates 2025-10-10T06:56Z 7797 followers, 21.3K engagements
"It seems like everyone we know in their mid 30s in the Bay Area is moving to the suburbs to get a big yard and lots of living space for their kids. @anneleeskates and I are working in SF X days a week and are considering the opposite: giving up our place in Atherton to go big in SF. Is there anyone with kids who has made that move"
X Link @spenserskates 2025-10-12T21:49Z 7796 followers, 187.4K engagements
"A limited-edition $X coin honoring Norman Borlaug will be released by the US Mint in 2026. Inscribed with "FATHER OF THE GREEN REVOLUTION". "This design depicts Dr. Norman Borlaug holding a sheaf of wheat and wheat stalks highlighting his pioneering work developing resilient crops capable of feeding a growing global population." Norman Borlaug's story is amazing. He brought modern farming practices to Mexico and created a new strain of high yield disease resistant dwarf wheat at quadrupled wheat production in the country. He then went on to do the same in India Pakistan and Africa. The sum"
X Link @spenserskates 2025-10-17T07:08Z 7801 followers, XXX engagements
"Andrej Karpathy's excellent overview on the state of AI capabilities: -AGI timelines are overly optimistic (and the skeptics are wrong) -Animals vs ghosts -The industry is overshooting with LLM agents"
X Link @spenserskates 2025-10-19T12:41Z 7801 followers, 10.3K engagements
"Automated Insights: Having AI find the root cause of an issue by running multiple iterative segmentation analyses of a chart. Eg what caused this recent spike in traffic segmenting by country traffic source campaign etc. this particular piece of content caused a spike. As you point out you need to also link back to a chart that shows that insight vs only presenting text. We're seeing high retention with our beta testers of this feature. All the examples from other companies I've seen like Tableau/Adobe/Google are going about it completely wrong by summarizing the existing chart and that's it."
X Link @spenserskates 2025-10-19T13:50Z 7801 followers, 2741 engagements
"@jasonlk @gradypb Yeah not only is AI the only thing that is capturing any budget it's actively eating other budgets"
X Link @spenserskates 2025-10-19T15:29Z 7797 followers, XXX engagements
"I'm super bullish on AI reshaping SaaS. We acquired X companies and re-orged product development twice this year to do it properly. The AGI magical thinking + SaaS is dead narrative drives me nuts so I came across more bearish than I meant to. I think most domains can map it's just a hard product problem to get right as you call out. I think the data parts are relatively easy. Specifically I think the user interface problem is hard. Most companies I see are slapping a thin layer on top vs rebuilding the interface. The other mistake I see is companies throwing out the interface and the years"
X Link @spenserskates 2025-10-19T16:29Z 7802 followers, 3450 engagements
"@jonathanmendez @Madhur_Yadav @Amplitude_HQ @karpathy The key is filtering the right data to the LLM. Once you send it too much it loses track of what's going on (even with larger context windows)"
X Link @spenserskates 2025-10-19T16:57Z 7801 followers, XXX engagements
"@DOitChoco Yo can I invest"
X Link @spenserskates 2025-10-19T16:34Z 7771 followers, XXX engagements
"Congratulations to Adam and team for raising BoostVC Fund X. Adam was the first venture capitalist to believe in us. For the longest time I was convinced he invested in Sonalight because we were the lamest company in YCW12. I later realized he was playing the long game with us as founders. He was excited when we pivoted to Amplitude and the rest is history. Adam sees incredible founders and markets before anyone else does and goes long with them. Congratulations on BoostVC Fund 4"
X Link @spenserskates 2025-09-30T17:57Z 7797 followers, 5612 engagements
"@rpatm @petergyang You need to reduce the number of dimensions the AI can query on. It helps that behavioral data has a particular structure and we have opinions on how you should query it. That makes it a much more tractable problem than "find me an insight" in a generic dataset"
X Link @spenserskates 2025-10-20T01:26Z 7801 followers, XX engagements