Chloeadams
@chloeadams
Designer & Product Thinker
Building in public. Curating stories worth sharing. Follow for more @chloeadams.
London
Highlights
TIL: You can speed up pandas groupby operations by 10x using categorical dtypes on your group columns. Changed a 45-second pipeline step to under 4 seconds.
#python#data#performance
Streaming responses are the single biggest UX improvement you can make to an LLM app. Users will wait 30 seconds if they can see tokens flowing. They'll bail after 5 seconds staring at a spinner.
#ai#ux#llm
New portfolio piece — redesigned the onboarding flow for a fintech app. Reduced drop-off by 34% with just 3 changes: simplified form, progress indicator, and social proof.
#design#portfolio#fintech
Unpopular opinion: monorepos are worth the tooling overhead. After migrating 12 microservices into a Turborepo, our CI time actually went DOWN because of better caching.
#devops#monorepo#dx
Just shipped our new AI agent framework — it handles tool use, memory, and multi-step reasoning out of the box. Open source link in bio 🚀
#ai#agents#opensource
Hot take: most "AI-powered" apps are just a GPT wrapper with a nice UI. The real innovation is in the infrastructure layer — embeddings, vector search, agent orchestration.
#ai#startups#tech
Design systems are not about consistency — they're about velocity. When your team can ship a new feature page in 2 hours instead of 2 days, that's the real ROI.
#design#systems#ux
We just closed our Series A 🎉 $12M to build the future of async collaboration. Incredibly grateful to our investors and the team that made this possible. Hiring across the board — DM me!
#startup#funding#hiring