Jennifer McPherson

Jennifer McPherson

Founder building tools for founders

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murmur is Apple's App of the Day in the US today!

Wow, still a bit surreal to see it on the Today tab.

Quick recap for anyone who missed the launch (it hit #7 here that day): murmur is a flight simulator for phone calls I built solo: you rehearse the calls you keep putting off - a job interview, calling the doctor, telling your mom you're changing the major - with an AI that talks back and pushes you a bit, and then provides feedback.
There is a lot of stuff going on behind the curtains to make it as smooth as it is: hundreds of AI evals and simulated conversations, end-to-end testing, that kind of stuff.

Late in life starter, founder x3, here to meet fellow builders

Hi Everyone, I am Jennifer, a late-in-life founder.

I didn't start my first company until I was 48. Had no idea what I was getting into! What I didn't expect was that I would fall completely, ridiculously in love with entrepreneurship. The building, the problem-solving, the "oh no what did I just sign up for" moments.

Fast forward to today: I'm 56, and I now run 3 companies.

I just discovered this community, I love it! I've been lurking and commenting on a few things here and there the past few weeks. .

12h ago

What's the smallest, dumbest thing that made you completely lose trust in an AI agent mid task?

It doesn't even have to be a big dramatic failures, more the small moments where something clicked and you went from trusting the output by default to double checking everything. For me it was watching an agent confidently rename a function across twelve files, then leave the original function untouched in a thirteenth file it apparently didn't search, with zero indication anything had been missed. It wasn't even a hard case, the file just wasn't in the directory it happened to grep first.
What was your moment? And did it actually change your workflow afterward, or did the trust creep back in after a week like it always seems to for me?

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