👋 Hi, I'm Greg

I co-founded SpecStory in November 2024 because I believe intent is the new source code.

Read my white paper Beyond Code-Centric that lays out the case.

Before that I was the Chief Product Officer at Pluralsight. And previously was at GitHub, Dropbox and Google.

Find me on → LinkedIn • X/Twitter • Substack

💼 What I Do

• Co-Founder: SpecStory
• Advisor: to AI and developer tool companies within Tola Capital's portfolio
• Writer: Weekly Meditations on Tech on Substack
• Builder: tny.dev API/MCP first link shortener for Cursor, Claude Code, etc. (Bitly replacement)
  • Philosphy: Built to be outgrown
  • OSS MCP Server: Get it on GitHub and from NPM

📚 Publications

Co-authored an O'Reilly Book with Hamel Husain: AI Essentials For Tech Executives ← Read here free!

🛠 Technologies

I work primarily with TypeScript and Python for most development projects, Swift for mobile applications, SQL for data management, and historically R for statistical analysis and data science workflows.

Most of the code I write these days is done w/ Claude Code, Bearclaude or Cursor. I save my AI chats and build contextual knowledge representations with SpecStory Extensions.

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